As most pregnant women know, morning sickness is a lie – that wave of nausea can hit any time. And when it comes, there are few effective remedies for it, according to a new WiserPregnancy survey.
The survey found that pregnant women try, on average, 3 to 4 remedies for morning sickness. Yet none control the condition: Almost two-thirds of respondents (62%) report that no remedies are “highly effective.”
The three most popular remedies to try:
- Eating smaller meals more frequently (76% of women try this)
- Getting more rest (64%)
- Avoiding trigger foods (62%)
Unfortunately, the most effective of these – avoiding target foods – isn’t: Only 27% of the women who avoided those foods found it “very effective.”
Prescription medications such as Compazine, Tigan and Phenergan work better (43% of women rated it “very effective”), but relatively few women try these for fear of potential harm to their babies, even if the medications have been proven generally safe. The same holds true for over-the-counter medications.
So search and experiment as we might, most of us simply deal with the nausea and vomiting until it goes away (we hope) in the 3rd or 4th month of pregnancy.
Here are the top 10 morning sickness remedies:
- Eating smaller meals more frequently – 76%
- Getting more rest – 64%
- Avoiding trigger foods – 62%
- Drinking ginger tea or suck on ginger candy – 53%
- Avoiding stressful situations – 39%
- Over-the-counter medications (e.g. Unisom Sleep Tablets, vitamin B6) – 21%
- Prescription medications – 20%
- Sea Bands (wrist bands that target acupressure points) – 17%
- Acupuncture or acupressure – 10%
- Hypnosis – 6%
What remedy did you try for morning sickness? Did it work?
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