Pregnancy nausea

Why?

If a pregnancy is started with food allergies, blood sugar instability, poor liver health or poor nutritional status especially B6, magnesium, zinc then morning sickness is very likely.

What to do

The usual treatment, eat little and often, eat protein last thing at night, avoid fats, sugars, acidic foods, and foods of known allergy or sensitivity, take plenty of fluids.

Treatments

Try powdered or micelled (water soluble) supplements rather than tablets or capsules. Experiment with increasing doses of B5 (50 to 100mg), B6 (50 to 400mg) always with a B complex, chromium, zinc.

Digestives

Digestive remedies include celloids potassium chloride, sodium phosphate and bitter herbs (although not to excess) meadowsweet, chamomile, aniseed, peppermint, digestive enzymes (papaya/papain).

Herbs

Specific herbs for nausea include black horehound, meadowsweet, wild yam, peppermint, lemon balm, aniseed, squaw vine, peach leaves and raspberry leaves. Avoid high doses or protracted use.

Herbal teas that can alleviate symptoms once nausea starts are, ginger, peppermint, spearmint, aniseed, clove, chamomile, lemon balm, meadowsweet and raspberry.

Liver

Liver treatments can be very effective in combating nausea, herbs to use include fringetree, globe artichoke, buplerum and dandelion Root, burdock and St Marys thistle use with caution under supervision.

Essential Oils

Essential oils of lavender, ginger, grapefruit, lime, mandarin, petigrain, sweet orange, chamomile and tangerine rubbed on abdomen.

Homoeopathics

Homoeopathic remedies chelidonium 6x and pulssatila 6x act on the liver and have been shown to reduce nausea in 90% of cases.

Anacardium: sudden empty feeling in the stomach better for eating a few bites

Antimonium crud: thick white coated tongue with nausea and vomiting

Ipecacuanha: nausea and vomiting with a clean tongue, disgust for all food and drink, sinking feeling, ineffectual spasmodic retching, eating does not ameliorate, aggravated by greasy foods, fried and rich foods. better for fresh air and thirstless

Arsenicum: anxious and restless, overwhelming fear that there is something wrong with the baby, great fear of pain and suffering, hypochondriacs, nausea and vomiting that is better for small sips of warm drinks like tea

Bryonia: severe nausea worse for the slightest motion, thirst for cold water, irritable with desire to be left alone, may also have constipation and headaches

Colchicum: severe nausea worse for the sight and smell of food cooking especially meat and eggs, fried foods. often thirstless.

Ferrum met: morning sickness with anaemia, pale blush easily, a lot of nausea and weakness

Iris versicolour: nausea with vomit which is white, watery and stringy

Lactic acid: sugar metabolism problems, a severe empty sinking feeling with exhaustion

Lycopodium: hypoglycaemia craving sweets in the morning and sugar aggravates

Nux vomica: nausea and vomiting with spasms and a toxic feeling, as if they are hung over. hypersensitivity to noise

Phosphorus: voracious thirst for iced cold water, craving for chocolate, polyuria (also good for varicose veins)

Pulsatilla: Weepy, emotional and worry about the baby, want consolation and support. crave pastries and creamy things, get headaches and indigestion

Sepia: aversion and disgust for food, aversion and disgust for sex, sensitive to smells and the nausea and vomiting. never want to get pregnant again.

Symphoricarpus racemosus: persistent vomiting, desires food but knows not what, nausea worse motion and adverse all food and better lying on her back

Tabaccum: sinking feeling with sweats, nausea and dizziness aggravated by sea or motion sickness.

Other remedies

Flower essences: black kangaroo paw on the belly button

Hypnotherapy and reflexology can be very helpful, seek a professional

The yogic tongue pull

Acupressure

Conception vessel 24 in the depression between the point of the chin and the lower lip on the mid line

Gall bladder 34: bend leg at 90 degrees, hold knee between index finger and thumb. The middle finger is on the outside of the shin bone, the point is at the tip of this finger, on the outside of the tibia

Liver 2; between the large and second toes, slightly up from the edge of the web and closer to the big toe.

Remember you will get the best and safest results if your seek a health professionals advice.

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