pregnancydiaries Welcome. I am glad you got prompt and excellent advice, and that you have certainly been admitted by now. As kalidasa and Derbee and others say, Cyclizine has been used for decades for pregnancy sickness.Everyone is very supportive on here. Most sufferers find that they improve a lot at some point between weeks 14 and 20, or sometimes later. Even those who are unlucky enough to suffer throughout generally are not as ill later on as they are in the first part. A good anti acid can make a surprising difference to the sickness. Kesostix are worth buying online or from a chemists, as while they aren't they best test of dehydration, hospitals take them seriously. When reporting on the vomiting to doctors, remember to emphasize the number of heaves in each vomiting session, as doctors tend to count these as 'vomits' and this can lead to their underestimating the severity of your symptoms. Besides drinking through a straw, here are some drinks that have helped others: full sugar flat coke (if you don't find it too acid), ice lollies, the juice of tinned fruit, Lucozade, apple juice, Ribina, Dr Pepper, soda water, Elderflower water, tonic water, ice cubes, Iron Bru, lemonade, lemon squash, orange squash, orange juice (if not too acid), fizzy orange, 7Up, isotonic drinks, sips of chocolate milkshake (maybe soya), fizzy water, apple juice, Robinson's fruit drinks, Rubicon sparkling mango drink , raspberry Lucozade sport and frozen ice cubes of flat Lucozade sport. Also, pink lemonade and cloudy lemonade. Foods of a sort include tinned fruit, cuppa soup, nibbles of crisps and chips, cheap ice cream, Scotch pancakes, bagels and biscuits, potato smileys, slices of melon and mango. Protein drinks have also been mentioned.
HerbiverousRex Welcome. I am glad you are feeling a bit better. Off the top of my head, if you are not vomiting and able to eat a bit and getting fluids, I would have thought the ketones should drop quite quickly. I am sure sufferers who have recently been admitted will be able to advise better.
kalidasa Sorry to hear of that result. That is stressful. I was given a risk factor of 1 in 33 and it was dismal waiting for the results, even though that is only a low figure in 100 when you think of it. I am glad they are offering a test quickly. Great advice as ever. You and Derbee are so right about how confused one becomes when dehydrated.
Melleebacca To go through a birth with a presenting position like that on only gas and air was brave!
Waves to AnyaC84 to Pleasedon'tworry
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