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Vomiting During Pregnancy : Is It Normal ?

2010-10-04T03:25:00.000-07:00

Morning sickness starts at about 6 weeks into the pregnancy. It is when the pregnant woman suffers from nausea and vomiting. This usually happens in the morning upon awaking but can also go on all day. It is thought that nausea may be caused by all the hormonal changes which take place inside a woman's body when she becomes pregnant.

As the baby grows it gets bigger so in the last trimester it causes the uterus to press onto the stomach. This can make the mother uncomfortable and bring on heartburn, vomiting and nausea. Severe vomiting during pregnancy or pain late in the pregnancy should be given medical attention as it may be due to an illness or a virus that the mother has caught. The doctor will need to know if you have been taking any remedies for your vomiting.

To alleviate the symptoms of vomiting, nausea and heartburn late in the pregnancy the woman can try sitting in a position that stops any pressure on her stomach. Eating small meals rather than large ones will help keep the pressure off. Eating meals during this time is important for the health of both the mother and her baby.

You need to ensure that you drink plenty of water. If you become dehydrated then you could possibly go into early labor. Dehydration can occur if you are vomiting excessively and unable to keep water in your body. This can cause early labor so you need to see your doctor as soon as possible.

A small number of women experience a very extreme morning sickness. The medical term for this condition is Hyperemesis Gravidarum. The nausea and vomiting are constant and go beyond the 1st trimester into the 3rd trimester until the last day of the pregnancy.

Hyperemesis Gravidarum is a condition that can have negative effects on both the mother and her unborn child. Because of all the vomiting the mother is unable to keep any food or water in her body and this can cause both her and her child to become deficient in nutrients and dehydrated. The mother is unable to lead a normal life and can lose a lot of weight and become lethargic. Her baby is at risk of developing illnesses late in life such as diabetes and heart disease plus other neurobehavioral issues.

Treatment for this serious condition may include going into hospital for intravenous re-hydration. This condition needs to be treated immediately.

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Am I Infected ? : The Four Most common Signs, Symptoms of Bacterial Infections

2007-09-20T01:51:00.000-07:00

Although the medical and health care are becoming more and more advanced but there is no perfect solutions for eliminating the infectious agent. There are basically three type of infectious agent that can harm human directly; virus, bacteria and large organism like worm. But thanks to this advancement, because there many method have been develop to diagnose the underlying disease not only based on the signs and symptoms of the disease but also using hi tech medical instruments.

The signs, symptoms of these infections are varies according to type of infectious agents and what part of body is being invaded. the signs, symptoms maybe mild, moderate or even severe. The prognosis (the outcome of disease) may also varies from spontaneous relieve to dangering life.

Few common signs, symptoms of infections are :

The first and most important symptom is fever (usually more than 38.9 celcius), this conditions occur because there are interactions between the infectious agents with our body immune system.
The second symptom is sore throat. This symptom occur when there are infections in upper respiratory tract. the manifestation of this symptom can also be vary, from only causes pain when swallowing to loss of voice.
The third symptom is cough. cough is one of the symptom of lower respiratory tract infection. It can happen because there are a obstruction in bronchus or inflammation in the lung)
Last most common symptoms are nausea, vomiting with or without diarrhea. This are the symptoms of infections of our gastrointestinal tract (bowel) .

This four symptoms can appear in combination with each other but the fever usually appear as the first and followed by others symptoms. So, the question now change to Are you Infected ?

Am I Pregnant ? : 2 Wrong ideas about Pregnancy symptoms

2007-09-19T04:15:00.000-07:00

Do you know that most women didn't realize their pregnancy ? Most men will laugh to hear this statement, they gonna say "what kind a woman don't know whether she pregnant or not ?" but this is a fact actually and its completely normal because pregnancy is not a disease, its physiological (normal) process of our body. the signs and symptoms of pregnancy often appear hidden, even a doctor also having a difficulties to make an early diagnose.

Thus, there are many ideas came up in the mind of the woman who thinks they are pregnant because they feel "the pregnancy symptoms or signs" but end up as a wrong ideas, such as

Vomiting and Nausea

As we know, there are many things that women vomiting or nausea, in fact this symptoms are two most common symptoms in digestive disorders and sometimes a real pregnant woman don't have this symptoms, other having this symptoms at the end of their pregnancy. so stop thinking that "if i am vomiting or having a severe nausea so i am pregnant"

Delayed period

Same as those vomiting, nausea symptoms, when a woman having a delayed period (or even stopped period) that is not really true symptoms of pregnancy ! In fact that period cycle is basically never fix, its change according to your hormonal conditions (thats why when you pregnant, one of the symptom is you are not having a period, not the opposite).

So the conclusions are that pregnancy symptoms may become hidden, may not happen with same form and may similar with other medical symptoms as well.

In next topic we will discuss about how to prepare your self for pregnancy.

Water True Abilities

2007-09-19T02:03:00.000-07:00

Since the first man stood on earth, when the nature is still kind until today, every living creatures still need water, no doubt about that. but does anybody know that drinking water is not only about relieve our thirst ? that water is the second most essential need of our body (after air) is actually a natural cure ?. From the view of Natural Medicine to the latest modern science, there are basically no differences about what this liquid object can do.

Naturally, human body is loaded with liquid equal to 60-70 cc (according to sex) times our weight (in kilogram), for example you are a man, 80 kg. So your body liquid is around 70 cc x 80 = 5600 cc ~ 5.6 liter of liquid. The Nature of water is dissolving almost everything, except oil, fat and its products. That dissolving property of water is one of reason why we need water, another reason is water acting as a cooler when our body temperature above its natural state, water is a transport media for our body chemicals and the equilibrium maintainer.

Now, from the point of view of natural medicine, lets us discus about water as a natural elixir. Do you know vitamins Right ? there are many type of them, from A-Z, 1-12 . There are at least 2 vitamins that are water soluble; C and B (there are 12 vitamins that within the B vitamins group, from 1-12). Human body cannot produce vitamin so we get it from food then as its nature, water will transport it to our vital and if there are too much vitamin in our body, water will act as dump truck to transport the vitamins to kidney for excretion.

Another amazingly natural properties of water are body cooler and equilibrium maintainer. When our body temperature raising, naturally because our activities such as sport, or because of pathogenic activities like infections, one thing that we must do is drinking as much as water as possible, because with much water within our body, the body temperature will decrease as a water that extinguish fire, and when the brain thinks that our body is contain too much water, than naturally, the excessive water will be thrown away through urine and sweat, so you don’t need to worry about drinking too much water right ?. the last but absolutely not the least, is water natural ability to maintain the balance of electrolytes in our body, for example there are lack of natrium (sodium) within our cell, then the natrium outside the cell will moving into the cell through it membrane (called semipermeable membrane) with the help of water (of course).

That only few of water’s natural abilities, but the fact is water is still so important although we don’t know its nature completely. So we still gonna drinking when thirst struc ? I hope not . remember, always drink minimum 8 glasses of fresh water daily, try to drink it in separated portions (even you can drink 8 glasses in row) so you can get the most beneficial results.