Every pregnant woman with toxicosis wants a magic pill that will ease the condition. But do such drugs really exist?
There are no medications for toxicosis in the national protocol of pregnancy management. Therefore, all the drugs that doctors prescribe to expectant mothers to alleviate the condition can be taken only at your own peril and risk.
There are foreign preparations containing vitamin B6 (but by itself it does not help from toxicosis), as well as a histamine substance with a hypnotic effect. In a number of countries, including the USA, Canada and Israel, it is sold strictly by prescription, but in domestic pharmacies it is not available at all.
Each doctor leading a pregnancy can use his own scheme to combat toxicosis. Most often, it contains B vitamins, antiemetic drugs, dietary supplements, hepatoprotectors, vitamin complexes and other drugs with unproven effectiveness (which is important!). Also, with toxicosis, severe dehydration can occur, which is treated with appropriate rehydration drugs.
Toxicosis of moderate severity can be treated in the format of a day hospital, but for the treatment of severe forms, you need to go to the hospital for a round-the-clock hospital. This is necessary when, according to the schedule of a pregnant woman, for a long time (as well as at night or in the early morning), droppers are placed, injections are given, when it is impossible to establish nutrition at home. Toxicosis with 5 or more bouts of vomiting per day can be considered severe, but the severity should be determined by the doctor.
Many drugs that fight toxicosis can at the same time have a detrimental effect on development and life of the fetus, therefore the dosage and the need for use should be determined exclusively doctors.It is important that medicine has not thoroughly studied the mechanisms of the onset and development of toxicosis, and therefore the methods of dealing with it are rather experimental in nature. There is no universal recipe, alas, a lot depends on the brain of the expectant mother.
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