If you need help now
We are unable to provide medical advice or help until we have our CQC registration. Please see the NHS guidance below.
If you are being sick
If you are being sick frequently and cannot keep food down, tell your midwife or doctor, or contact the hospital as soon as possible.
Call your midwife, GP or 111 if you're vomiting and:
- have very dark-coloured urine or have not had a pee in more than 8 hours
- are unable to keep food or fluids down for 24 hours
- feel very weak, dizzy or faint when standing up
- have tummy (abdominal) pain
- have a high temperature
- vomit blood
- have lost weight
If your life is in danger
If you have seriously harmed yourself – for example, by taking a drug overdose – or you feel that you may be about to harm yourself, call 999 for an ambulance or go straight to A&E. Or ask someone else to call 999 or take you to A&E.
If you need to talk to someone
Samaritans – for everyone. Call 116 123. Open 24 hours a day, every day.
Call 111 – 24 hours every day. Or call a GP – ask for an emergency appointment.
Information from the NHS website as at 241026: vomiting and morning sickness, hyperemesis gravidarum and help for suicidal thoughts. Information from the NHS website is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.