Hyperemesis Gravidarum Brooke Larsen City College at Montana State University Billings Hyperemesis Gravidarum Nausea and vomiting are especially common during early pregnancy, particularly within the first trimester. Most women experience nausea and vomiting, commonly referred to as “morning sickness”, which is often attributed to the mother’s reaction to the spike in pregnancy hormones. Although feeling ill is considered normal within the first few months of pregnancy, there are
dehydration (Cleveland Clinic, 2012), then it becomes a disorder called Hyperemesis Gravidarum (Lee & Saha, 2013). The Cleveland Clinic (2012) describes Hyperemesis Gravidarum as “an uncommon disorder in which extreme, persistent nausea and vomiting occur during pregnancy.” Risk Factors Women are at risk for developing HG if they are now pregnant with more than one child, overweight, pregnant for the first time, had Hyperemesis Gravidarum in a past pregnancy, or have trophoblastic disease (Cleveland
Dr. Atul Gawande, a Harvard Medical School graduate and writer for The New Yorker, phenomenally illustrates the unknown side of healthcare professions in his book, Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science. By exploring the ethical and analytical aspects of medicine while entertaining readers with relatable anecdotes, Gawande impresses on his audience the importance of recognizing the wonders of the healthcare field, as well as the fallibility of those within it. The writing style
Health Benefits of Ginger Ginger has been widely used in different culinary cuisines and has numerous therapeutic qualities. It is a rhizome or mass of roots from the plant Zingiber officinale and with the numerous members of this plant family, all has its own uses as a delicacy, medicine, and spice. It can be served in solid form as fresh, dried, or powdered and in liquid form such as juice, extract, or oil. Ginger has been found to be highly effective in fighting a variety of diseases and conditions
Figure 1 shows the family genogram. S.S. has one sister, with both grandparents deceased on his paternal side, and one grandparent deceased on his maternal side. S.S.’s parents are both living. He has two paternal aunts, five maternal aunts, and one maternal uncle. The squares gray represent by Males and the gray circles represent Females. The blue square represents S. S. and the white circle represents his spouse, K. S.. The red lines represent people that are deceased. Yellow boxes represent family
During pregnancy, a woman’s body goes through a vast amount of changes in a small amount of time. There are physical, mental, and even chemical changes that occur during the nine months that it takes to develop a healthy baby. With the ongoing changes that are taking place within the mother, the care of the mother and the developing fetus is changing as well. Certain testing that could be done on a woman who is 30 weeks pregnant, in the third trimester, would not be performed on a woman who is 10
H.pylori: Discovery: For many years, stomach was thought to be sterile due to its high acidic secretions in the gastric juice(#73) that’s why physicians previously attributed ulcers to stress or anxiety and did not believe that bacteria could be responsible for GIT (gastrointestinal tract) diseases. The first observations of bacteria in the stomach were presented in 1875, when two German anatomists, Bottcher and Letulle, found spiral bacteria colonizing the mucus layer of the human stomach, , in
Why do they call it morning sickness if I feel nauseated all day long? About three-quarters of all pregnant women have nausea (and sometimes vomiting) during their first trimester. For some, it's worse in the morning and gets better over the course of the day, but "morning sickness" can strike at any time. The nausea usually starts around 6 weeks but can come on as early as 4 weeks for some women, and it usually tapers off around 13 weeks as you start your second trimester, although queasiness can