Could you please locate the Discover Health television program that
aired sometime in 2002 discussing the horrors of pre-eclampsia in
first time mothers and the danger signs to be aware of that can keep
the mother from getting congestive heart failure if allowed to go to
full term?

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 01 Sep 2004 09:19 PDT

Is this the episode?http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/print_report.cfm?DR_ID=8698&dr_cat=2

pre eclampsia is a abnormal symptom complex (Higher Blood pressure,
feet swelling, pitting edema, headache, with many other signs) found
during pregnancy that predisposes to a full blown eclampsia with
possible disasterous outcome. urgent need for hospitalization with
treatment e.g. "lytic coctail"

Hi,

All these links are from the Discovery Health website. I hope you find them useful.
You may reach me at srividya@gmail.com

I think this is what you are looking for :

Born Against the Odds

http://www.discoveryhealth.co.uk/parenting/p_story.asp?storyid=103564&oldstoryid=114094&feature=

1) What is Pre-Eclampsia
http://www.discoveryhealth.co.uk/parenting/p_story.asp?storyid=47793

More info on the above is at the bottom of this link:

http://www.discoveryhealth.co.uk/encyclopaedia/default.asp?cat=Pregnancy&storyid=117958

2) How Vitamins could help
http://www.discoveryhealth.co.uk/parenting/p_story.asp?storyid=115168&oldstoryid=47793&feature=