Toxemia
= What is it? Toxemia is the result of not getting proper nutrition
= How is it diagnosed? by checking the blood pressure, other symptoms include swelling of the hands and feet and face, because the body is retaining fluid.
= What are the dangers? liver and kidney damage/failure, problems with eyesite, and possibly convulsions. Also these are signs that the baby isn't get enough nutrients from just what the mother is eating. And is beginning to take nutrients from the mother's body
= What do medical professionals do? bedrest, high blood pressure medications, they induce the baby or require a c-section.
= What can you do? You can eat a high protien diet. Yet again this is the main cause of toxemia. The medical field has yet to recognise it, but many people in this and other birth communities have used the method of upper protien in the diet and found it to completely reverse any and all signs of toxemia!
