Does the pitocin drip

[Luckyinlife]

have mercury in it, as well as the epidurals and spinals????

Anyone know.....very curious!

[Gitti]

Interestin.

I know the sponges that they use in surgery do.

[mashtree]

[KellyB]

Originally Posted by Luckyinlife

have mercury in it, as well as the epidurals and spinals????

Anyone know.....very curious!

If it does, I'm going to be really mad, as I "had" to have one according to my OB, and I developed epilepsy post partum.
And have an indefinitely suspended drivers license because of seizures.
And spent the first 6 months PP terrified I'd go into convulsions and kill my nursing baby.
:

[amnesiac]

Pit is not preserved with thimerosal. I don't think most epi meds are either but you'd have to look up the specific ones.

[mrsfatty]

It doesn't look like it: http://www.kingpharm.com/uploads/pdf...Pitocin_PI.pdf

Pitocin (oxytocin injection,USP) is a sterile,clear,colorless aqueous solution of synthetic oxytocin, for intravenous infusion or intramuscular injection.Pitocin is a nonapeptide found in pituitary extracts from mammals. It is standardized to contain 10 units of oxytocic hormone/mL and contains 0.5% Chlorobutanol,a chloroform derivative as a preservative,with the pH adjusted with acetic acid. Pitocin may contain up to 16% of total impurities.The hormone is prepared synthetically to avoid possible contamination with vasopressin (ADH) and other small polypeptides with biologic activity. Pitocin has the empirical formula C43H66N12O12S2 (molecular weight 1007.19).The structural formula is as follows: (see link)

[gothmommy]

Originally Posted by kellyb

If it does, I'm going to be really mad, as I "had" to have one according to my OB, and I developed epilepsy post partum.
And have an indefinitely suspended drivers license because of seizures.
And spent the first 6 months PP terrified I'd go into convulsions and kill my nursing baby.
:

Wonder if you were having eclamptic seizures that they misdiagnosed. Alot of pre-eclamptic moms never are dianosed and YES they can still seize postpartum.

[KellyB]

Originally Posted by gothmommy

Wonder if you were having eclamptic seizures that they misdiagnosed. Alot of pre-eclamptic moms never are dianosed and YES they can still seize postpartum.

But I had my blood pressure checked regularly while pregnant...
Could that still be it?
I'm thinking it had something to do with hormones most likely.
Thanks for your concern, though...

[Tracy]

just to reiterate.

no thimerasol in pitocin.

http://kingpharm.com/uploads/pdf_inserts/Pitocin_PI.pdf

http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic3/oxytocin.htm