Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy
I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night - Soleil Moon Frye
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Stop Calling It Morning Sickness
The trouble with morning sickness is that it's usually treated one of two ways: as a trivial (even amusing) rite of pregnancy passage, or as the potentially life-threatening condition hyperemesis gravidarum, which can land women in the hospital for dehydration (as was the case with Kate Middleton).
In between those two extremes lies the wide, debilitating land of nausea and vomiting that's often part of pregnancy. And that is where I spent many, many miserable months when I was pregnant with my two sons.
Now pregnant with my third child, I am just beginning to see the light at the end of the porcelain-enameled tunnel, and I realize that it's time for us to speak honestly about…
Resources
First Trimester Nausea Hacks : In the Trenches of Pregnancy {Guest Post}
I found I developed a love/hate relationship with food. With each meal the question was, “will this make me feel good or bad today?”
Morning Sickness During Pregnancy: What to Do and How to Cope
Start with home strategies like eating bland meals and ginger, and escalate to medication if necessary.
Morning Sickness Pill Gets Second Look From Persistent Researchers
A Canadian doctor who is opposed to a widely used drug for morning sickness has fired another volley. Writing in the journal PLOS ONE, Dr. Navindra Persaud in the department of family and community medicine at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, notes that an unpublished study that supported use of the drug, conducted in the 1970s, is seriously flawed.
Hyperemesis Gravidarum: When Morning Sickness Is So Extreme You Can’t Function
In roughly 1 percent of women, the nausea and vomiting that can accompany a pregnancy can become so severe and unrelenting that those symptoms transcend simple “morning sickness.”
Severe Morning Sickness Is No Joke. Why Don’t We Know More About It?
So why is there so little information about a malady that sends around 285,000 women to the hospital every year? Fejzo says that research stalled after the 1950s, when women with severe pregnancy nausea were given thalidomide, which turned out to cause major birth defects. “After that, studies with pregnant women pretty much came to a halt. Drug companies stopped doing research and so did universities.”
The Protective Power of Morning Sickness
A new study of pregnant women finds nausea and vomiting are associated with a reduced risk of miscarriage.
What Causes Morning Sickness?
Millions of women suffer from the nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, but scientists are still exploring the underlying causes.
When nausea from pregnancy is life-threatening
Most women experience some type of morning sickness during pregnancy, but some women develop a far more serious condition. Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), which causes severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, affects as many as 3 percent of pregnancies, leading to over 167,000 emergency department visits each year in the U.S. Until intravenous hydration was introduced in the 1950s, it was the leading cause of maternal death. Now, it is the second leading cause, after preterm labor, of hospitalization during pregnancy.
Can Lollipops Keep Nausea Away?
While the lollipops haven't been tested in a clinical trial, some of their ingredients, including ginger and vitamin B, have been shown in studies to combat nausea.
FDA approves return of treatment for morning sickness
Talk about a comeback: A treatment pulled off the market 30 years ago has won Food and Drug Administration approval again as the only drug specifically designated to treat morning sickness.
How extreme nausea can define pregnancy
Sever morning sickness takes over your life, where vomiting can happen every hour of the day – not just in the morning. It can cause mother and baby to become malnourished and even miscarriages.
I Had the Same Disease as Kate Middleton and It Was Brutal
Morning sickness on steroids doesn't even begin to describe it.
Management of Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy after Discharge from the Emergency Department
Overall, the goals of NVP treatment are to reduce the severity and impact of symptoms, and to reduce the risk of progression to more severe NVP or HG while minimizing any adverse effects of treatment on the fetus.
More evidence common morning sickness drug may not work
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug, pyridoxine-doxylamine (Diclegis, Diclectin), based on results from a clinical trial. But previously unpublished data from the trial show the drug worked no better than a placebo at reducing nausea and vomiting in pregnant women, researchers report in PLOS One.
More pregnant women are using marijuana. We don’t know if that’s safe
And cannabis dispensaries are marketing their products to pregnant women for morning sickness.
Morning Sickness and Nausea During Pregnancy
If only morning sickness were just relegated to the mornings! Here's some help for women coping with nausea during pregnancy, especially during the early months.
Morning Sickness May Be Linked To A Healthier Pregnancy
Women who have experienced morning sickness—and probably prayed for it to stop—may be intrigued by the results of a new study from the NIH. It finds that both nausea alone and nausea with vomiting are linked to a much-reduced risk of miscarriage in the first eight weeks of pregnancy.
My Extreme Form of Morning Sickness Was Terrible. Not Being Believed by My Doctors Was Worse
Hyperemesis gravidarum is dangerous, and treatable. Why does the medical community still ignore it?
This Extreme Form of Morning Sickness Is Stumping Doctors
The kind of sour-sick that made its way into my aching muscles and my brain, regenerating again every time I tried to eat or drink.
Stop Calling It Morning Sickness
The trouble with morning sickness is that it's usually treated one of two ways: as a trivial (even amusing) rite of pregnancy passage, or as the potentially life-threatening condition hyperemesis gravidarum, which can land women in the hospital for dehydration (as was the case with Kate Middleton).
Diclegis
Diclegis is a prescription medicine used to treat nausea and vomiting of pregnancy in women who have not improved with change in diet or other non-medicine treatments.
Patient
Around half of all pregnant women feel sick and vomit during early pregnancy. So, it can be considered a normal part of pregnancy. It is often called morning sickness, but symptoms can occur at any time - not just in the morning.
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