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  • There is no medical treatment for mild morning sickness. If morning sickness is bad enough to interfere with your everyday life, your doctor may be prepared to prescribe a drug to stop the vomiting (anti-emetic). However, no anti-emetic drug has yet been tested for its safety in pregnancy, so the effects on the developing baby will be unknown. This is the reason that many doctors will not prescribe anything, unless the risk to mother and baby is so high that something has to be done. Thus, in hyperemesis gravidarum, admission to hospital may be necessary so that the dehydration can be treated with an intravenous fluid drip. Chat with your midwife or doctor and find out if there are any additional tips they can suggest. Your local pharmacy may stock special acupressure wristbands. These have a button on the inside of the wrist that stimulates an acupressure point and this can help nausea. The Royal Navy ran a trial on these and found them to be useful in a proportion of seasick sailors. Good supermarkets and health food shops will stock stem ginger in syrup. Nibbling small pieces of ginger is said to help some sufferers of morning sickness. It is certainly harmless and worth trying. (http://www.discoveryhealth.co.uk/parenting/p_story.asp?storyid=64202)
  • I had a mid wife tell me to take vitamin B6 once a day. It didn't work for me cause I couldn't keep the pill down. However everyone is different you may ask your doctor about it. Good luck
  • These are some tips I've found for morning sickness: *Eat small meals throughout the day so that you're never too full or too hungry. *Avoid rich, fatty foods. *Avoid foods with smells that bother you. *Eat more carbohydrates (plain baked potato, white rice, dry toast). *Eat saltine crackers and other bland foods when you feel nauseous. *Try gelatin desserts (Jell-O), flavored frozen desserts (popsicles), chicken broths, ginger ale (nondiet), sugared decaffeinated or herbal teas (be careful with teas though, some can be hazordous during pregnancy), and pretzels. *The iron in prenatal vitamins can bother some women. If you think your morning sickness is related to your vitamins, talk with your doctor and he or she may change your vitamins. *Wearing "acupressure" wrist bands, which are sometimes used by passengers on boats to prevent sea sickness, may help some women who have morning sickness. You can buy the bands at boating stores or travel agencies. I found this at http://familydoctor.org/154.xml . I hope it helps. I had severe morning (afternoon and night) sickness as well. Unfortunately I just had to let it pass. Lasted for about four months for me. I would strongly recommend you take your prenatals to make up for any nutrition lost and find one that doesn't taste yucky. I had one that tasted like sugar but I didn't find it until after all the morning sickness passed. Doctors are more than happy to provide you with many samples to find the one you like. Hang in there and good luck!
  • I have seen on line that you can buy preggie pops. They are supposed to help with moring sickness.
  • I had moderate/severe morning sickness while I was pregnant, and my doctor initally prescribed zofran for me. it is indicated for use during pregnancy and was very effective, but is not available generic, and since i didn't have insurance for a month while i was pregnancy because i was switching jobs, i couldn't afford it ($600 for a two week supply). my doctor then prescribed phenergan for me, which was available generic so it was only $15, and it worked well for the nausea, but I could only take it at night because it caused extreme drowsiness.
  • I don't mean to sound like I'm on a mission against alcohol...I like a glass of wine with dinner every now and again. But just to add to the existing good answers...my doctor told me to avoid alcohol.
  • My wife had really bad morning sickness, to the point where she was throwing up the anti-throw up pill right after she took it. We got those prego-pops and they seemed to work like a charm for her. Whenever she got to feeling pukey, she'd grab a sucker and the feeling would pass. I think you can get them at just about any maternity/baby store type place. Cheers!
  • if you ask you doctor for something he/she will probably give feneragine.but there are other things so just tell you doctor about you sickness and ask he/she if they can give you something for it.
  • I had a friend who dr gave her something for her nausea so it can be done.
  • I had hyperemesis in 3 pregnancies on a good day i was sick up to 10 times a day on a bad 30 in and out of hospital on a drip, I was prescribed a drug called metoclopramide which is an anti sickness but as soon as i swallowed tablet i was sick the best thing for me in the end where i could continue with everyday life was stemetil in suppository form not pleasant but stopped the sickness this had to be done first thing in morning and from week 18 i could get out the house and live a little i could also finally eat food which i knew myself and the baby needed and she was born very healthy.

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