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Maternal blood pressure in pregnancy, birth weight, and perinatal mortality in first births: prospective study

BMJ 2004; 329 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.38258.566262.7C (Published 02 December 2004) Cite this as: BMJ 2004;329:1312

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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

Competing interests: No competing interests

17 March 2007
Malkhaz Jalagonia
Chairman
Local Non-governmental Organisation