Presentation:
Jenny, a mother of 37 years and the primary income earner,
presented at nine weeks gestation with her second child. She was a softly spoken, slender and
intelligent woman, fair-haired with pale, cold, drawn skin of yellowy
tone. Her mood was anxious, burdened
and depressed. She was weary through
the day and at night experienced restless and disturbed sleeps.
Hyperemesis
necessitated hospitalization at 5˝ and 6˝ weeks gestation for intravenous
hydration. Jenny lost 8.5 kg in the
previous weeks of the pregnancy and now, whilst taking Ondansatron 4 mg
daily, continued to vomit daily at least once and had constant nausea when
trying to eat or drink.
Treatments:
Four
treatments were given, two each week before lunchtime.
At
each appointment, Jenny received a
lavender footbath, oiling with hypericum, heart massage with aurum and an
oxalis ointment cloth to the abdomen.
She continued to use the oxalis cloth at home to calm her digestion,
especially before consuming fluid or food.
Results:
Following
the first appointment, she said ‘there was no further vomiting, this is
amazing’. Now Jenny
carried an air of confidence that ‘this nausea will pass’.
By
the second appointment, the Ondansatron could be reduced to 6 mg
daily. She was now warmer and more
relaxed, smiling and talking positively about her toddler and the
pregnancy.
By
four months gestation she had returned to work part time. Jenny
delivered a healthy male at 36 weeks gestation by caesarean section.
