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PAPERS: Philip J Steer, Mark P Little, Tina Kold-Jensen, Jean Chapple, and Paul Elliott Maternal blood pressure in pregnancy, birth weight, and perinatal mortality in first births: prospective study BMJ 2004; 329: 1312 [Abstract] [Full text]

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Treatment for low blood pressure in pregnancy

Malkhaz Jalagonia   (17 March 2007)

Treatment for low blood pressure in pregnancy 17 March 2007
Malkhaz Jalagonia, Chairman Local Non-governmental Organisation Send response to journal: Re: Treatment for low blood pressure in pregnancy	Dear ladies and gentlemen, I am a doctor from Georgia (former part of former Soviet Union). It is very interesting to learn that low diastolic blood pressure is associated with small babies and high perinatal mortality. Our doctors are notorious for treating everything, even the things which do not need treatment at all, but sometimes our experience and knowledge can benefit others(I know few examples from Gastroenterology). We treat low blood pressure in pregnancy with ginger. Do you use ginger with the same purpose (I know that you use it for nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. Interestingly enough, we do not do this)? And if you do not use ginger for low blood pressure, can you try it? Yours truly, Malkhaz Jalagonia, MD Competing interests: None declared