Prenatal vitamins and metal allergies

[burntbuffalo.livejournal.com]

My sister is a around three months pregnant. For the first almost two months she wasn't having morning sickness and was fine, then she was given prenatal vitamins from Planned Parenthood and she started getting morning sickness all the time. She was taking all the vitamins before, just in the form of several different suppliments throughout the day. My entire family is allergic to metals - if it's anything less than sterling silver or 14kt we break out. The tablets PP gave her had iron and nickle in them, and she started getting sick. She stopped taking them when she read the ingrediants and found the metals, but the morning sickness symptoms stayed. The question is: is it more likely a coincidence that the morning sickness started when she started the prenatals, or could the vitamins have actually jump started the morning sickness? Our mother said she knew she was pregnant about 3 days after conception because she got morning sickness immediatly (she might have exaggerated, but my sister has gone months with NOTHING)

Thanks :)

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[ex-absentees659.livejournal.com]

My first pregnancy = no morning sickness.
2nd pregnancy = randomly started at 6w2d and stopped in the 13th week.

[storychick.livejournal.com]

I've had trouble with prenatals each of my pregnancies... I take them beforehand but stop once I get pregnant because they make me sick. My first pregnancy I tried a variety of different brands and had trouble with them all, so I just gave up and with my subsequent kids just stopped.

That said, I started morning sickness at around 12 weeks with my first pregnancy, so its entirely possible to get sick later on even if you werent before. Each pregnancy is different.

[quiltingdragon.livejournal.com]

Never having had a kid yet (i'm 24) I went to go ask my mother this one. She said she is allergic to iron, but only orally - when she was pregnant with me, she had the same problem with the prenatals... when she talked to the doctor, he took her off them and told her to take a children's vitamin every day. When she had chemo for cancer, she had to have the iron by IV for the same reason. She's also a nurse, and said she might get the doctor to run some blood tests to check various levels of things, but its probably an iron allergy, or maybe both since you said she's sensitive to other metals. Hope she figures out what's causing the problem for sure.

[tabiris-words.livejournal.com]

I don't have any kids, but I go to school with several pregnant women and my best friend is pregnant (invasion of the preggies!!! I want a baby :( anyway...) I have a friend like yours, she started taking prenatal pills and she got really sick from them, so she stopped. She takes multivitamins now and gets her iron, zinc and folic acid from natural sources. Most of the girls I know drink ginger tea. It's really good for nausea (I even take it when I'm on my period because I get really nauseous) and ginger is recognized by medical and natural professionals as safe for unborn babies.

[geminigirl]

Every pregnancy is different, even in the same person. It's quite likely coincidence that the vitamins and morning sickness happened at the same time, but it never hurts to check with the doctor. For most people it starts in the first month and ends by about the fourteenth week of pregnancy, but it can happen at other times. The best thing to do is to call the doctor and see what he or she suggests.