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Studies suggest that taking vitamin B6 for morning sickness greatly improves nausea, though not vomiting, for many pregnant women.
What Is Morning Sickness And Who’S Affected?
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) notes that morning sickness, defined as nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, will affect almost 75 percent of all pregnant people.
Abstract
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. The instrument used in this study was a questionnaire, including demographic characteristic and determining severity nausea and vomiting based on the analog visual scale.
Data were analyzed with SPSS software and t-test and Kruskal-Wallis test. Conclusion: Ginger was effective in treating nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, but its use needs further studies to determine the proper dosage and the confirmation about the safety of this drug for a pregnant mother and her fetus. Keywords: Ginger, nausea, placebo, pregnancy, vitamin B6, vomiting.
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Fifteen of 31 vitamin B6-treated patients had vomiting before therapy, compared with ten of 28 in the placebo group (not significant). (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORD.