Ginger For Pregnant Women Morning Sickness Relieve
Morning sickness is an unpleasant right of passage for so many pregnant women. Ginger is a home medical remedy for treating the symptoms that has been passed down from mother to daughter for thousands of years.
An Australian study directed by Dr. Caroline Smith shows that ginger is more than just an old wives’ tale; it is very effective for relieving the nausea and vomiting of morning sickness.
They found that ginger and vitamin B-6 one gram of ginger or 75 milligrams of vitamin B-6 (25 milligrams three times a day) were equally effective in reducing nausea, retching and vomiting in 291 pregnant women during the 21-day study.
The supplements didn’t help everyone; 53 percent of the ginger group reported improvement, compared with 55 percent of the vitamin B-6 group. There were no side effects noted in either the mothers of the babies.
The researchers concluded that ginger and vitamin B-6 appear to be safe, effective options for morning sickness. Always see your doctor before taking any supplement or medication during pregnancy.
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Ginger has long been recognized as a recommended treatment for nausea: a recent study suggested it was the only effective treatment.
[…] Morning sickness can cause misery for some women while they are pregnant for an evolutionary adaptation designed to make sure that pregnant women don’t digest too much unhealthy food or other substances, and until now, hormones have largely been blamed for causing it. And ginger has long been recognized as a recommended treatment for morning sickness: a recent study suggested it was the only effective treatment. However new research suggests that the nausea and vomiting a woman can experience actually has a protective function. Nausea and sickness during pregnancy are the body’s way of protecting mother and baby against poisons and bugs in food, research which brought together data from 21 countries suggests. […]
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