Pregnancy is that time of your life when you start living in your bathroom more than your living area. From frequent visits because of your irresistible urge to empty the bladder, to the stomach bugs that won’t stop bothering you, pregnancy is difficult. Worse enough, it hits just when you were finally convinced it is safe to step out of the washroom.

What Are Stomach Bugs?

It is nothing as the name suggest. It does not involve giant insects running around in all directions in your stomach. The so called bugs are usually viruses, though sometimes bacteria might happen to be the culprit and take the blame. As if it wasn’t bad enough that the microscopic organisms get access to our body as and when they will.

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What You Need To Know

More than often, the nasty bugs behind the gastrointestinal disturbances go undetected. After all, they are so hard to differentiate from their more common counterpart, the morning sickness. If in the early weeks of pregnancy, it is even easier to confuse between. There is of course a way to separate the two out and for good reasons. In case you just vomit around your room and feel weak, you are probably down with your usual morning sickness. However, in case it is followed up by cramps or fever, there are chances that you are affected by a bug, well technically millions of bugs. Another possibility could be you are suffering from food poisoning, whose symptoms are pretty much the same as that of a stomach bug.

What You Can Do:

1. Get The Rest Your Body Is So Strongly Urging You To Take:

Give your worked up life a break and assess. If your stomach is giving a go at itself owing to the pregnancy hormones, or is it a virus that made its way through. It could also be the early morning burger you chomped on owing to your strange food cravings. The treatment for all three is of course the same. Rest and loads of it.