The science and art of nursing the sick / by Aeneas Munro.

  • Munro, Aeneas.
Date:
1873
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    days, it is red like blood, but mixed with water (watery blood—bloody serosity), so that it is perfectly easily distinguished from pure blood. The colour then becomes generally lighter, and gradually lessens until it ceases altogether, but it is not unusual that about the sixth day it becomes greenish, then it gets yellowish about the twelfth or fifteenth day, and smaller in quantity. It then becomes a white discharge for two days or so, and then gradually ceases. We thus observe that the lochia changes from sanguineous to serous or sero-purulent, and, finally, purulent. Its absolute duration varies much, as well as these relative changes. The quantity varies exceedingly in different women. Usually the napkin must be changed every two or three hours after labour, and so on, until it begins to lessen, just in proportion to the amount excreted, and, finally, only two or three napkins will be re- quired in the course of the whole day. Nurse ought As soon as a clot is passed, the nurse should at SlEv once rem'ove it, and make the patient comfortable. K/''- The nurse should never use a napkin without airing and heating it before the fire, and, as each napkin is removed, the nurse ought to examine it carefully.