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Lifestyle changes aid pregnant women with nausea and vomiting.
2003 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Lifestyle changes aid pregnant women with nausea and vomiting.
According to a study from Canada, "nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP) affects most pregnant women. There are safe and effective treatments available; however, most women choose to avoid pharmacological therapies and try lifestyle and dietary changes to treat their condition. To date, no attempt has been made to quantify women's experience with a variety of interventions. This study aims to identify factors commonly reported by women that alleviate their symptoms of NVP"
"Five hundred women with NVP, calling a pregnancy healthline between February 1996 and July 1999, completed a questionnaire where they were asked to rate which of 21 factors helped and to what extent each factor helped to improve their NVP symptoms. For each item, the 'frequency' (percentage of women who indicated that item as an improvement) and 'mean importance' (mean importance score of women who indicated that item as an improvement) were multiplied to give the overall impact score," wrote K. Chandra and colleagues, Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology.
"All 500 women reported that dietary and lifestyle changes helped to improve their NVP symptoms. However, most ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Lifestyle changes aid pregnant women with nausea and vomiting.