morning sickness (redirected from Pregnancy sickness)

sickness /sick·ness/ (sik´nes) disease.

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African sleeping sickness  African trypanosomiasis.

air sickness  airsickness.

altitude sickness  a condition due to difficulty adjusting to lowered oxygen pressure at high altitudes; it may take the form of mountain sickness, high-altitude pulmonary edema, or cerebral edema.

car sickness  carsickness.

decompression sickness  divers' paralysis; joint pain, respiratory problems, skin lesions, and neurologic signs, due to rapid reduction of air pressure in a person's environment.

green tobacco sickness  transient, recurring nicotine poisoning in tobacco harvesters.

high-altitude sickness  altitude s.

milk sickness  an acute, often fatal disease in humans after they ingest milk, milk products, or flesh of cattle or sheep who have eaten certain toxic plants; human disease is marked by weakness, anorexia, vomiting, and sometimes muscular tremors.

morning sickness  nausea of early pregnancy.

motion sickness  nausea and malaise due to unaccustomed motion, such as in travel by airplane, automobile, ship, or train.

mountain sickness  a type of high altitude sickness with oliguria, dyspnea, blood pressure and pulse rate changes, and neurological disorders.

radiation sickness  a condition resulting from exposure to a whole-body dose of over 1 gray of ionizing radiation and characterized by the symptoms of the acute radiation syndrome.

sea sickness  seasickness.

serum sickness  a hypersensitivity reaction after administration of foreign serum or serum proteins, marked by urticaria, arthralgia, edema, and lymphadenopathy.

sleeping sickness  increasing lethargy and drowsiness due to a disease process such as African trypanosomiasis or types of encephalomyelitis.

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morning sickness

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Nausea and vomiting upon rising in the morning, especially during early pregnancy. Also called nausea gravidarum.

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morning sickness.

See nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.

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morning sickness

Nausea gravidarum Obstetrics Pregnancy-related nausea often accompanied by vomiting upon awakening, possibly related to hunger; MS occurs in 1⁄2 of pregnancies in the first 2-12 wks of gestation and, if severe, causes dehydration and acidosis. See Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals

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Patient discussion about Pregnancy sickness.

Q. How Can You Treat Morning Sickness? My sister has been suffering from morning sickness all throughout her first 4 weeks of pregnancy. Is there a way to treat morning sickness?

A. this is the third time today i recommend this amazing site for pregnant women, it's the "American college for Obstetricians and Gynecologists" website and it has pamphlets about any pregnancy question you'll have:

http://www.acog.org/publications/patient_education/bp126.cfm

take care :)

Q. How is morning sickness treated? I have been suffering from morning sickness all throughout my first 4 weeks of pregnancy. Is there a way to treat morning sickness?

A. eat crackers, and if your taking prenatal vitiams take them and cut them in half,and take one afternoon, the other in the evening.that helps with the sickness,and you can even take flintstone vitiams instead,that helps alot.

Q. How should i take care of morning sickness? i mean i am getting sick :) of that , the same thing every day Any Ideas ? someone ?

A. :) , when my wife was pregnant she also had morning sickness. this made her a very edgy person... so i looked for solutions that might help her (and me!). here is something i found useful:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003119.htm#Common Causes