Morning sickness

In early pregnancy, especially during first three months, you may experience nausea and vomiting. Though it may happen during any time of the day, most frequently it is experienced in morning after getting up.

If it’s in moderate amounts and does not cause dehydration it is normal. Hormonal changes like rise in HcG and serotonin, may cause it in early pregnancy.

How to prevent it?

• Avoid foods which make you nauseous, it differs from individual to individual.
• Avoid having spicy and too rich food.
• Don’t get out of bed in the morning empty stomach, and don’t move too quickly.
• Have frequent small meals.
• Eat lots of nutritious and fruits and vegetables rich in water content like tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, grapes, watermelon.
• Drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration
• Always keep nutritious and light snacks with you like biscuit or dry fruit, so that you can have them if you feel dizzy.
• Avoid smoking and too much of caffeine and tea
• Wearing loose clothes also help in feeling less nauseous.

How to relieve it?

Treatment during pregnancy is not aimed at removing the cause, for pregnancy is the cause, it is aimed at relieving the symptoms.

• When you feel nauseous, eat something like a glucose biscuit or saltine crackers, ginger ale and pretzels.
• Taking yoghurt helps the gastritis.
• Try sniffing cut lemon. Fresh lemon will help you in lessening nausea.

How homoeopathy can help you in it?

• If you vomit at the sight of water and water is thrown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach, throws up anything as soon as it is eaten, sour taste and sour eructations after every meal, take Phosphorus 30, 3 doses at interval of 10 mins.
• If there is persistent vomiting with gastric disturbance, nausea aggravated by any motion, bitter taste and constipation, with no desire to eat any food, take Symphoricarpus racemosa 30, 4 hrly.
• Continuous nausea with or without vomiting or nausea not relieved even by vomiting, clean tongue, and nausea is worse lying down, take Ipecac 30, 4 hrly
• If smell of food causes nausea, even fainting, vomiting worse with any motion, with great coldness in stomach. Presence of craving for various things but disappears on smelling followed by nausea. Take Colchicum 30, 4 hrly
• Vertigo, nausea especially when riding and getting up. Nausea with aversion to any food, disgust for food. Loss of appetite. Take Cocculus 30, 4 hrly.
• If there is sour taste and nausea in morning, and after eating; flatulence and pain in stomach; sour and bitter eructations; nausea and vomiting with much retching, take Nux vomica 30, 4 hourly.