YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- The health of detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has improved after she suffered from dehydration and low blood pressure last week, her party said Tuesday.One of her medics, Dr. Pyone Moe Ei, was allowed to visit Suu Kyi, 63, at her lakeside home in Yangon on Monday afternoon. The doctor spent nearly five hours there and administered an intravenous drip, said Nyan Win, spokesman for the National League for Democracy.
"The doctor said Daw Suu's health has improved but she still suffers from cramps. The doctor has prescribed necessary medicines," Nyan Win said. "Daw" is a term of respect used for older women in Myanmar.
Nyan Win last week said Pyone Moe Ei reported that Suu Kyi had not eaten for three or four days and was suffering from low blood pressure and dehydration.
Suu Kyi's chief doctor, Tin Myo Win, was detained for questioning by authorities last Thursday after an American man was arrested for allegedly sneaking into her closely guarded home early last week.
"We still haven't heard anything about the doctor since Thursday and we are very much concerned," Nyan Win said Monday.
In Washington, the U.S. State Department urged the ruling junta to allow Suu Kyi access to Tin Myo Win. The statement also called for the military regime to release Suu Kyi and some 2,100 other political prisoners.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who has spent more than 13 of the last 19 years under house arrest, is allowed virtually no visitors aside from her doctor.
She is not known to have had any serious medical problems since September 2003, when she was taken from detention to a private hospital for a week for a major operation that doctors said was a gynecological procedure. In November 2006 her doctor conducted an ultrasound examination at her request and announced that the results revealed no gynecological problems.
Myanmar has been ruled by its military since 1962. Suu Kyi's party won elections in 1990 but the military did not honor the result.
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