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Studies suggest that taking vitamin B6 for morning sickness greatly improves nausea, though not vomiting, for many pregnant women. There has been no sign of harm to the fetus with vitamin B6 use.footnote 1
A typical dose of vitamin B6 for morning sickness is 10 mg to 25 mg, 3 times a day.footnote 2
Talk to your health professional before you take vitamin B6 for morning sickness. Intake of more than 100 mg a day of vitamin B6 can cause temporary nerve damag.
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Thirty-one patients received vitamin B6, 25-mg tablets orally every 8 hours for 72 hours, and 28 patients received placebo in the same regimen. Patients were categorized according to the presence of vomiting: severe nausea (score greater than 7) or mild to moderate nausea (score of 7 or less). The severity of nausea (as graded on a visual analogue scale of 1-10 cm) and the number of patients with vomiting over a 72-hour period were used to evaluate response to therapy.
In patients with mild to moderate nausea and in the group as a whole, no significant difference between treatment and placebo was observed. At the completion of 3 days of therapy, only eight of 31 patients in the vitamin B6 group had any vomiting, compared with 15 of 28 patients in the placebo group (P less than .05). (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORD.
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Background: Nausea and vomiting are the most common complicated issues in pregnancy period, but they have not been paid much attention. Materials and Methods: This is a randomized and double-blind clinical trial. 120 women were selected by simple random sampling method, and divided into three groups and were given vitamin B6, placebo, and ginger, respectively.
97 women completed the treatment. They were given treatment for 4 days and were followed after a week. The instrument used in this study was a questionnaire, including demographic characteristic and determining severity nausea and vomiting based on the analog visual scale.
Results: There was significant difference between groups in severity of nausea and frequency of vomiting (P < 0.001).
What Is Morning Sickness And Who’S Affected?
Morning sickness can be one of the earliest signs of pregnancy, beginning around the sixth week. You can blame it on those rising pregnancy hormones.
That can mean weeks upon weeks of daily vomiting and nausea.