need answer quick!

[loza]

Hi all this morning woke up with an uncomfortable problem! woke with stomach cramps at the lower end of stomach...and after a while knew i had to go loo, all though my pregnancy iv had constipation, now all of a sudden i have had diarrhea! but i couldn't get off the toilet and had to strip off my pyjamas as started feeling hot,sweaty and very faint. Then to top it all off I started to be sick from the other end. The reason im asking is i have obviosly noticed a change from normal and also my friend and her daughter had similar sounding symtoms last week and they turned out to be a bug! so i was wondering if a bug can harm the baby or even if its not a bug can it harm the baby. Im 4 months pregnant. Please answer soon as I am worrying and want to know what to do! xx

[cameo]

I'm sure it's nothing to worry about, but I would contact NHS Direct - 0845 4647 just to be sure.
They should be able to put your mind at rest. If you are still worried go and see your own doctor.

Hope everything is ok.
Good Luck x

[redcrx]

It sounds like you could have the bug if its going around.

Give your GP/ midwife or EPU unit a call for advice.

Keep drinking lots of fluids and eat plain food.

Bugs and food poisoning are kept away from the baby by the placenta, so he/she is probably happy as larry but wondering why everythings being wobbled about as you are sick etc.

I hope you feel better soon

[loza]

Thank you both! seems iv probably just ate something i didnt agree with (or maybe the baby didnt agree with) as iv been fine all day! so iv just spilled the beans about my horrible incident for no reason other than to be embarassed! haha. again thank you. xx

[curiosity]

Hi, I had the exact symptoms with my third child only, when I ate eggs, I only ate 3 (with a Satuirday full English) throughout that pregnancy and each time around 7pm on the Sunday I had your symptoms. My colleague who is due in October has had the same experience with Chicken. I normally can eat eggs till the cows come home, so assumed it was the baby who didn't like them, she is now seven and has just started to eat eggs and kind of enjoy them, she completely refused them up until now, which according to some people is the bodies natural reaction to avoid something you are intolerant to, not necessarily allergic to. However if you do find that it is eggs or something else and not a bug, please check the immunisations he/she will get when a baby as I chose not to give her the MMR due to its egg albumin base due to my symptoms during prgnancy when I ate egg. Hopefully it's a bug, but if it isn't it still hasn't been a major problem for us. Good Luck

[Psychick]

loza, I had a nasty stomach bug at only 6 weeks but was reassurred that your body will naturally protect the baby against any short term bug like that. Luckily my bug, which like you was diarrhea and sickness, last less than 24 hours.

I was also told to keep eating as I still needed to get the nutrients inside me for me and the baby!

Hope you're feeling better soon :)