Importance of Measuring Women’s Quality of Life and Patient Counselling in Pregnancy-Related Nausea and Vomiting: A Review

Abstract

Pregnancy is the period of gestation from the fertilization of the egg, through the development of the foetus and ending in birth. In 70 – 80% of pregnant women, the common disorder is Nausea and vomiting. Unfortunately, early in pregnancy, some women feel nausea and vomiting and some never experience it. Although NVP has a tendency to be dealt with as an ordinary part of pregnancy, it can decrease the quality of life of pregnant women. In contrary to the hardship that NVP for pregnant women, maximum research determined that NVP is related to unfavourable effects for the foetus along with low birth weight and small for gestational age. NVP considerably lessen the quality of life of pregnant women and has big economic effects on patients, caregivers, and society, but this disease could be very frequently and underrated the severity of symptoms for NVP range from mild to moderate nausea and vomiting to pathologic cases of women with a severe form of NVP called hyperemesis gravidarum. Many researchers and articles have been proven out how the quality of life is being negatively affected in pregnancy because of nausea and vomiting This article discusses the importance of measuring the quality of life through questionnaires and on varied diet counselling for nausea and vomiting.