Prenatal vitamins and metal allergies

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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)

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[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.