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TORONTO: Observing that a number of young ladies go through painful labor for 14 to 20 hours, researchers have suggested that glucose supplements be administered in order to reduce the duration. This, they say is particularly important for the first time.

It has been learnt that extended labor can be detrimental for maternal as well as foetal health. 

Believing that glucose supplementation could perk-up muscle performance, scientists suggest that by including glucose to the intravenous hydration solution to preggos throughout childbearing labor could be speedup.

Regarding this, the investigator from the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada, Josianne Pare stated that such supplementation considerably diminish the entire span of labor sans boosting the odds of impediment.

So as to determine this, approx 200 expected females have been selected on haphazard basis. They received either a usual hydration solution consisting of salt and water or a solution containing glucose, salt and water.

Their findings demonstrated that the mean extent of labor was 76 minutes shorter among those who had obtained glucose during childbirth.

In point of fact, glucose is considered the cheapest and the safest preference in labor.

The scientists are going to present their outcomes at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s annual meeting, in Quebec.