FROM: Sturgess, Frances Coulter
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SUBJECT: no more a.m. sickness
DATE: 04-25-97   01:36 EST
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Chanita et al.---the video on morning sickness/lemons is (I believe) called
"No More Morning Sickness" and is distributed by LemonAid
productions--unfortunatley I do not have the refs here, but some of the health
ed. catalogs do carry it--Kaiser might even have a copy !!!  The RD that did
the research and was interviewed for it (it was a production for some news
station) is very good. I wish I remembered her name :'<.(Its 10pm here)  She
has also written a book on the subject--"Morning, Noon and Night Sickness"
(?not sure) and works extensively with women admitted for hyperemesesat a
Universty Hosptal.

Basically she found that yes, lemons helped, because it countered the odors of
other things and sort of "brought you up short", I guess sort of like smelling
salts would, but more pleasantly.  BUt the biggest thing was getting the moms
to trust themselves and go counter to the (unproven) advice to go fatfree/eat
crackers etc.

A lot of momms found that potato chips and lemonade were what stayed down for
them best--sort of the salt/helped them drink/hydrate and have calories, didnt
dry out the mouth like crackers (and had more flavor!!!)  It kind of came down
to "if the idea of a particular food doesn't make you sick, go ahead and try
it--" seems to work.

(I am amazed that AdultNutritionals worked for some--I cant stand the smell of
the vitamins that float out--and nutritionally Gatorade is pretty overrated.
But, if it is what stays down, and juices and broths dont (which would cover
the sodium/ppotassium/fructose angle)...well...)

Don't sweat the "junk food" aspects--the important thing is to get fluid and
calories that stay down.  You can always improve the diet later.

Has she tried ginger ale (not 7up) and ginger tea, or even juice of ginger
root in hot water?

And if cookiing odors make her ill, cold food may help (sandwiches etc) or
having someone else cook..;'>

Oh..if you do get hold of the video, there is an irritatiing amount of
bottlefeeding in it because two of the interviewed moms were bottlefeeding
postpartum and one of them was shown about 4 times (clips from one interview).
 I wrote to the RD and she concurred that this was * very* unfortunate (though
far from the point of the video, which was intended to deal with a condition
that can have fatal consequences for the fetus--some women have aborted, they
have been so badly off) but its one of those journalist things she had no
notion of nor control over...:'< till it was over...