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Parturient Paresis

Last Updated: May 21, 2012

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Parturient Paresis- Partial paralysis that occurs at or near time of giving birth to young and beginning lactation. The mother mobilizes large amounts of calcium to produce milk to feed newborn, and blood calcium levels drop below the point necessary for impulse transmission along the nerve tracks. Commonly called milk fever.

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