Goodbye Nausea for Pregnant Women

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Experience nausea and vomiting during early pregnancy is very common place on the expectant mother. "Just be patient, it'll go away!" That counsel often posed to pregnant women.

If you're experienced, it seems the advice is not enough patience.

That said emesis gravidarum or symptoms commonly called morning sickness (nausea and want to vomit) occurred during the initial three months of pregnancy.

This term is not appropriate because of nausea and vomiting experienced often last all day.

The experts do not know the exact cause, but it is often attributed to various factors such as the increasing variety of hormones and psychological influences.

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Recognize the Morning Sickness

Emesis gravidarum or better known as morning sickness usually occur early in the first trimester of pregnancy. This condition is usually experienced 70-80 percent of expectant mothers due to increased levels of the hormones estrogen and progesterone.

Symptoms of emesis is normal and common in pregnant women. However, there are also a must watch emesis is hyperemesis gravidarum.

Patients with hyperemesis gravidarum was considered not reasonable because of the frequency of excessive vomiting, face blanched like a sick person. In addition, hyperemesis gravidarum causes dehydration and weight loss, so patients must be hospitalized.

Causes of Nausea

Nausea and vomiting are often difficult to make a pregnant woman to eat, even a favorite food presented. There are several causes of nausea which then lead to vomiting:

1. Hormones estrogen, progesterone, and HCG

During pregnancy an increase in estrogen and progesterone hormones that affect the digestive system. As a result, the process of digestion takes longer to trigger nausea. While the HCG hormone that comes out through the blood stream also leads the onset of nausea.

2. Food

Avoid foods that can trigger the production of gases such as cabbage and bean sprouts. Excessive production of gas can cause nausea and vomiting caused.

3. Increased sensitivity smell and taste

Avoid anti-nausea medications!

Nausea levels at every pregnant woman would have been different. There is a feeling of nausea mediocre and only occasionally. However, some pregnant women experience nausea to vomiting all day and require treatment.

If a pregnant woman has a condition like that, you should not use any anti-nausea medicine to cope with morning sickness.

Nausea and vomiting are common at 4-8 weeks of gestation may be subject to the 'peak of misery' at age 12-14 and even up to 20 weeks of gestation. Principally if the mother can still eat the food, it was considered reasonable to require no anti-nausea medications.

When expectant mothers consume lots of anti-nausea medicine that are not recommended by your doctor, can harm the fetus. Start of miscarriage, birth defects visible or visible only later to cause death.

Medicine taken pregnant women can affect the fetus in some way, either directly working in the fetus causing damage and developmental abnormalities or death. Moreover, it can affect the function of the placenta, usually by way of the blood vessels and reduces wrinkling exchange of oxygen and nutrients between the fetus and the mother.