Great Britain's Princess Kate has been announced to be pregnant and carrying the future heir to England, which brought the 'hate mongers' out of the woodwork...
When it was announced that she has been hospitalized with "acute morning sickness" those same hate mongers went almost rabid with glee and started tweeting, blogging and posting on just about every social media outlet how she was, well, being treated like a Princess!
What they fail to realize is that her actual diagnosis is Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG), a severe form of morning sickness that is thought to be triggered by the increase of the pregnancy hormone beta HCG (human chorionic gonadotrophin) and usually lasts the entire pregnancy but can continue after pregnancy.
This is not your run of the mill morning sickness... this is a condition that must be carefully monitored to safeguard the health of the mother and child.
In the Mother if inadequately treated, HG can cause renal failure, central pontine myelinolysis, coagulopathy, atrophy, Mallory–Weiss syndrome, hypoglycemia, jaundice, malnutrition, Wernicke's encephalopathy, pneumomediastinum, rhabdomyolysis, and vasospasms of cerebral arteries. Depression is a common secondary complication of HG.
Prior to the availability of IV Nutrition in the 1950's, hyperemesis gravidarum was sometimes fatal.
She has to struggle daily to try to get in enough nutrition and fluids to sustain her pregnancy and insure the health of her child while battling dehydration, malnutrition, constipation and gestational gastroparesis (which may or may not be permanent).
Sometimes people get so caught up in "Celebrity Hate" that they forget that they are people, too, and suffer the same things we do and they have to do it on the front page while people tear them apart for daring to be human!
Imagine if the next time you have the stomach flu it makes the papers and everyone in the world criticizes your going to the Doctor for it when you become dehydrated, what you wore to the Doctor, the fact that you went to a good Doctor, what you could have done to cause it, their opinion on how you are treating it and how they could have done it at home with some crackers and ginger ale!
This poor woman is ill... it is not fake, it is not being taken more seriously because of who she fell in love with and she does not deserve the hate being cast upon her and those who are attacking without knowing the hell she is going through should really step back and ask if they would like the same to be cast on them in her situation?
Grow some humanity, people!
