{"id":80876,"date":"2025-09-23T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/80876\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:28:16","slug":"severe-pregnancy-symptoms-increase-risk-for-mental-health-problems-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/80876\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe Pregnancy Symptoms Increase Risk for Mental Health Problems | Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Extreme pregnancy symptoms increase a woman\u2019s risk for mental health problems<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) were more likely to develop postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, PTSD, eating orders and depression<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>HG causes excessive nausea and vomiting during pregnancy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>TUESDAY, Sept. 23\u00a0 2025 (HealthDay News) \u2014 Extreme pregnancy symptoms like excessive nausea and vomiting can dramatically increase a woman\u2019s risk for mental health and neurological problems, a new study says.<\/p>\n<p>Women diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) were more than 50% as likely to develop a range of 13 conditions that included postpartum psychosis and post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers reported Sept. 18 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanogw\/article\/PIIS3050-5038(25)00023-8\/fulltext\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, &amp; Women\u2019s Health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They also had a nearly tripled risk for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/a-to-z-health\/pregnancy\/postpartum-depression-643346.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">postpartum depression<\/a>, as well as a more than doubled risk for eating disorders, researchers found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany pregnant women experience nausea and vomiting but for women with HG this occurs at a level which is far from \u2018normal\u2019 and as such it can be profoundly debilitating,\u201d lead researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/hamilton-morrin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamilton Morrin<\/a> said in a news release. Morrin is a doctoral fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King\u2019s College London.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperemesis gravidarum isn&#8217;t simple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/a-to-z-health\/pregnancy\/morning-sickness-what-it-is-symptoms-causes-remedies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">morning sickness<\/a>. Women with the condition experience prolonged and severe nausea and vomiting, leading to dehydration and weight loss, researchers said in background notes.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperemesis gravidarum affects just under 4% of all pregnancies, and is the most common cause of hospitalization in the first trimester of pregnancy, researchers siad.<\/p>\n<p>Most cases resolve from the second trimester, but it can leave women feeling anxious, isolated and unsure of their ability to cope with the rest of their pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, researchers analyzed data on nearly 477,000 women diagnosed with HG in 18 high-income and middle-income countries. The women had an average age of 27.<\/p>\n<p>The team reviewed women\u2019s health records for signs of 24 mental health and neurological disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Results also showed that women had a doubled risk of Wernicke\u2019s encephalopathy, a neurological condition caused by vitamin B1 deficiency, and for refeeding syndrome, complications that occur when a malnourished person is provided food too quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of these conditions would warrant urgent referral to specialist services for urgent assessment and treatment to ensure safety of mother and child,\u201d Morrin said.<\/p>\n<p>Results also showed that women with mild HG might be at greater risk for mental health problems, compared to those with HG so severe they suffer from malnutrition or dehydration.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the researchers recommend that all women with HG be screened for psychological problems, regardless of the severity of their symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe severity of HG does not directly correlate with the degree of impact on mental health, and as clinicians, we have a responsibility to ensure these women receive adequate integrated care across both physical and mental health,\u201d Morrin said.<\/p>\n<p>Senior researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/thomas-pollak\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Thomas Pollak<\/a>, a clinical reader and consultant neuropsychiatrist at King\u2019s College London, agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil recently, there has been something of a disconnect\u202fbetween how the medical community has regarded the mental health impact of HG and how women themselves describe their experience,\u201d he said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur findings show that this gap is not only real but can be very serious,\u201d Pollak continued. \u201cHG can be associated with severe psychiatric disorders that require urgent recognition and\u202fjoined-up physical and mental health care from the very start of pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The American Pregnancy Association has more on <a href=\"https:\/\/americanpregnancy.org\/healthy-pregnancy\/pregnancy-complications\/hyperemesis-gravidarum\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hyperemesis gravidarum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: King\u2019s College London, news release, Sept. 18, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>What This Means For You<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women with severe pregnancy symptoms should be aware of their vulnerability for mental health problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key Takeaways Extreme pregnancy symptoms increase a woman\u2019s risk for mental health problems Women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[54310,27982,34525,11439,7843,26538,18,135,475,26537,32942,19,17,26535,96,54311,24176,167,6629,2645,4226,51797],"class_list":{"0":"post-80876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-abnormal-psychology","9":"tag-behavioural-sciences","10":"tag-clinical-medicine","11":"tag-consumer-news","12":"tag-disability","13":"tag-diseases-and-disorders","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-health-care","17":"tag-human-diseases-and-disorders","18":"tag-hyperemesis-gravidarum","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-medical-specialties","22":"tag-medicine","23":"tag-mental-disorder","24":"tag-mental-disorders","25":"tag-mental-health","26":"tag-nausea","27":"tag-pregnancy","28":"tag-psychology","29":"tag-tncen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}