Severe nausea and vomiting are among the most common symptoms. difficult of pregnancy. But also the most common symptoms frequentalmost touching seven out of ten pregnant women.
Pains they bring 2% of them in hospital. They were studied by an international study, published in the journal Nature this Wednesday, December 13, by researchers from Cambridge and the University of Sri Lanka in Kelaniya (Colombo). Their findings explain why some pregnant women are so ill they need to be hospitalized.
A hormone in question
This discomfort is caused by a hormone produced by the fetus, GDF15. This acts on the mother’s brain causing nausea and vomiting. And the greater the amount of this hormone, the more the pregnant woman is exposed to nausea and vomiting.
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Symptoms that can also put the life of the fetus and mother at risk. If complications are severe, they may lead to intravenous fluid replacement to avoid dangerous levels of dehydration, i.e. hyperemesis gravidarum, which is the most common cause of hospitalization for women during the first three months of pregnancy, explains the Huff Post.
If the study doesn’t provide a miracle cure, it allows doctors to find one solution to treat women who are affected. “ This knowledge gives us a clue as to how we might prevent this phenomenon from happening.”said the professor Stephen O’Rahilly, co-author of the study. That is, building the woman’s tolerance to the hormone before pregnancy to prevent nausea.
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