Severe morning sickness can pose serious threat

Dr. Silvia Degli Esposti, director of the Center for Women’s Gastrointestinal Medicine at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative, has recently been developing protocols for treating a particularly aggressive form of morning sickness.

Known as Hyperemesis Gravidarum, the condition is characterized by the frequency and persistence of vomiting and the inability to keep food and fluids down.

Recently in the news when suffered by Dutchess Kate (the former Kate Middleton) during her two pregnancies, the condition frequently causes both malnutrition and dehydration and hospitalization. The British royal was hospitalized with her first case and not her second.

Women with morning sickness have mild nausea that’s sometimes accompanied by vomiting that subsides during the day. Women with Hyperemesis Gravidarum experience nausea that doesn’t subside, as well as severe, persistent, vomiting, and often dehydration. About one to three percent of pregnant women suffer from the intense form of morning sickness.

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The Center for Women’s Gastrointestinal Medicine specializes in treating hyperemesis, inflammatory bowel disease, hepatitis, and other gastrointestinal disorders in pregnancy.

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