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Puerperal Disorders

Medical Definition:	Disorders or diseases associated with the six-to-eight-week period immediately following LABOR, OBSTETRIC and delivery.
Guide Notes:	check the tag FEMALE; puerperal psychoses: coord IM with PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS (IM)

Puerperal Disorders Categories.

	Depression, Postpartum - Depression in women occurring usually within four weeks after the delivery of a child. The degree of depression ranges from mild transient depression to neurotic or psychotic depressive disorders. (From DSM-IV, p386)
	Lactation Disorders - Disturbances of milk secretion in either sex, not necessarily related to pregnancy.

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