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Suggest Medication For High Fever

My daughter had a C-section 3 weeks ago and developed a high fever hours after the surgery. She was on antibiotics for 3 days and they sent her home. Thls week she developed another high fever and the doctors hospitalized her put her on antibiotic drip and did a cat scan and found blood clots on her uterus or ovary.. Should they be giving her an anticoagulant drug to dissolve these clots? They said they would dissolve on their own. Please answer my questions, but she is in severe pain in which they gave her some morphine. . I am a very concerned mother that lives out of her state. I am concerned that the clots could dislodge and travel ..Thank you
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I am sorry to hear about your daughter. The blood clots that the doctors have detected are probably located inside the uterus. It so happens that during the pregnancy, the placenta remains attached to the inner surface of uterus (endometrium). After the delivery, the placenta comes out and so does the endometrium too eventually as the uterine blood vessels cut squeeze and cut off the blood supply there and the uterus contracts to squeeze it out. As a result, the remaining portion of the endometrium comes out in the form of bleeding. But if some amount of placental tissue remains adherent, it might not easily come out and the uterus contracts repeatedly trying to expel it, thus causing the pain for which she needs to be given pain medication like morphine. These are the blood clots that the doctor is talking about. These could have got infected, causing the fever.

For the infection to subside, the blood clots need to come out, which would probably happen on its own. Antibiotics and paracetamol are required. Since the blood clots are not inside a blood vessel, the chances of dislodging and travelling is unlikely.
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Suggest Medication For High Fever

I am sorry to hear about your daughter. The blood clots that the doctors have detected are probably located inside the uterus. It so happens that during the pregnancy, the placenta remains attached to the inner surface of uterus (endometrium). After the delivery, the placenta comes out and so does the endometrium too eventually as the uterine blood vessels cut squeeze and cut off the blood supply there and the uterus contracts to squeeze it out. As a result, the remaining portion of the endometrium comes out in the form of bleeding. But if some amount of placental tissue remains adherent, it might not easily come out and the uterus contracts repeatedly trying to expel it, thus causing the pain for which she needs to be given pain medication like morphine. These are the blood clots that the doctor is talking about. These could have got infected, causing the fever. For the infection to subside, the blood clots need to come out, which would probably happen on its own. Antibiotics and paracetamol are required. Since the blood clots are not inside a blood vessel, the chances of dislodging and travelling is unlikely.