The news is out. Princess Kate is expecting again. Lovely news. Its also been released that she is suffering again with Hyperemisis. As much as I cant picture the princess lying in her bed crying at the constant nausea with a bucket at her bedside for vomiting; having no control over your bladder when you are being sick; having the worst dehydration headaches; feeling sick when you eat; feeling sick when you dont eat; not physically being able to move because of exhaustion & thats not to mention the other million symptoms, including it being life threatening. But this ILLNESS does not choose class. So please dont think that it is just morning sickness or acute morning sickness as the news seems to describe it. Lets raise awareness - Hyperemesis gravidarum is morning sickness, but so much worse than what most pregnant women experience. Sufferers vomit. A lot. The nausea can be so severe that one begins to lose weight. Women are supposed to gain weight during pregnancy, so that in itself is worrying. Beyond that, there are the possibilities of dehydration, and what the National Institutes of Health’s resource on the subject refers to as psychological or “social problems.” The duchess, as it turns out, cancelled an appearance in Oxford Monday with her husband. Sufferers, like the duchess, are often unable to go about their normal daily routine, whether that means going to work, taking care of kids, or repping the royal family. What causes it? There’s no one good answer here, because doctors don’t precisely know. One of the risk factors, however, led to a lot of (incorrect!) speculation about the duchess’s pregnancy last time: “extreme nausea and vomiting during pregnancy,” the NIH’s resource guide explains, “can happen if you are pregnant with twins (or more babies).” There’s at least one other common possibility: she could have a hydatidiform mole, which appears in the uterus during early pregnancy. Other risk factors associated with the condition include being overweight, having HG in a previous pregnancy, and being a first time mother. Is it rare? Most pregnant women experience some morning sickness. Severe morning sickness like the Kate’s, however, is more rare, though not unheard of. Scientific American wrote that somewhere between .2 and two percent of pregnant women in developed countries suffer from it. The numbers vary. The condition does have a high recurrence rate: as many as 80 percent of women who have HG during their first pregnancy could have it for future pregnancies. “Doctors don’t know how to help you. They don’t know why it happens. They don’t really know how to make you feel better. Two of the more common treatments for hyperemesis are antihistamines such as Benadryl, which doesn’t fix the nausea but does knock you out, and Zofran, which is a drug meant for cancer patients to help with the nausea and vomiting that is caused by chemotherapy and radiation.” Otherwise, women suffering from HG are supposed to keep down as much fluids and foods as they can. That, obviously, is not easy. So all that said God Bless the princess and the family.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 17:28:04 +0000
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