A new British study achieves a breakthrough in treating excessive nausea in pregnant women
Nausea has always been considered an annoying symptom that accompanies pregnancy and cannot be avoided or escaped, no matter how much habits change or how different diets differ. But the results of a new British study made a breakthrough and represented a great glimmer of hope for many mothers and women.
In detail, a group of scientists announced that they have discovered the reason why pregnant women feel nauseous, which puts medicine one step closer to finding a potential treatment for this condition.
According to the study, fetuses produce a hormone that can cause severe nausea and vomiting, known as hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), but a woman’s exposure to the GDF15 hormone during the pre-pregnancy period would form the nucleus of the new treatment.
Stephen O’Reilly, a professor at the University of Cambridge, explains that the more sensitive the mother is to the hormone, the more susceptible she becomes to suffering from severe nausea, stressing that knowing this about pregnant women gives scientists an idea about how to prevent it from occurring.
Shocking numbers about severe nausea
It is thought that between 1 and 3 in 100 pregnancies are affected by hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), and this can be life-threatening to the fetus.
Some women talk about vomiting and feeling nauseous more than 50 times a day during their pregnancy, which prevents them from eating or even water, which greatly affects their daily life, and in many cases many women are forced to resort to the hospital to be injected with fluids. Intravenously to prevent any dehydration.
Previous study with limited results
Scientists have previously studied nausea in pregnant women. One previous study indicated that pregnancy nausea “could” be related to the GDF15 hormone, but researchers at the time lacked a “full mechanistic understanding” of this health condition.
While the new research published in the journal Nature and in which scientists from Cambridge University The British and researchers in Scotland, the United States and Sri Lanka have shown that the degree of the disease is linked to the amount of hormone produced in the uterus – as well as the extent of previous exposure to this hormone.
After an in-depth study that included several women at the Rosie Maternity Hospital in Cambridge, experts noted that those who have a genetic variant that puts them at risk of hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) have low levels of the hormone GDF15 in their bodies, while women with blood disorders such as thalassemia, which cause very high levels of GDF15. GDF15 Before pregnancy, they experienced mild nausea or vomiting during their pregnancy.
2023-12-14 11:45:05
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