morning sickness

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Recent Examples of morning sickness In the 1960s, a drug called thalidomide that was widely prescribed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women caused severe birth defects in over 10,000 children around the world. Almut Winterstein, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2025 Nausea and vomiting symptoms associated with morning sickness can reduce appetite and overall food intake.9 On the other hand, research has also shown that some pregnant people eat more milk, meat, and eggs as a result of the nausea and vomiting during the early stages of pregnancy. Laura Schober, Health, 21 Aug. 2025 According to the outlet, the royal had the treatment while pregnant with Prince George, now 11, and suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum, which causes morning sickness. Janine Henni, People.com, 3 July 2025 My goal is that every household would get one to keep on hand, like a thermometer, there’s someone in every house who can use one at some point, not just for travel and morning sickness, but for nausea from migraines, anxiety, and hangovers. IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2018 See All Example Sentences for morning sickness
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Noun
  • So when a person takes, say, a high dose of the motion sickness drug scopolamine — which blocks the effects of acetylcholine — things start to go awry.
    Jon Hamilton, NPR, 22 Oct. 2025
  • This work shows promise for motion sickness interventions that do not rely on pharmaceuticals, which are currently used to combat these effects.
    Taylor Lonner, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Use this after a night of one too many cocktails, or simply add to your in-flight water to prevent dehydration or mountain sickness.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 4 July 2024
  • These researchers would like to pave the way to therapies for chronic mountain sickness, but first need to better define what living and working at this altitude does to human bodies.
    STAT staff, STAT, 24 Dec. 2019
Noun
  • One hiker died from hypothermia and altitude sickness and 213 others were evacuated from the rugged region since Sunday.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The man managed to communicate to his partner that he was lost, but was clearly suffering from altitude sickness.
    Owen Clarke, Outside, 25 Sep. 2025

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