Dr. Sherry Purves, Naturopathic Doctor, Calgary, AB

Dr. Sherry Purves is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor, who was born and raised in a small town outside of Calgary. She completed her Bachelor of Nursing degree at the University of Calgary and spent the next 15 plus years in the allopathic medical world. Starting her career in oncology and then moving on to emergency medicine where she spend most of her career. Her passion for naturopathic medicine started when her own family was hurled into the cancer world with a diagnosis, treatments, and symptom management that all came with it. She later moved to Toronto where she studied naturopathic medicine, receiving her Doctor of Naturopathy degree from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. In her final year as an intern, she was amongst a select few chosen to work on the Adjunctive Cancer Care shift at the Integrative Cancer Care Clinic. During this time she found her passion in working with cancer patients, empowering them at every stage of their disease, from cancer prevention, through conventional treatment, to survivorship and palliative care. She has always had great respect and an in-depth understanding of conventional medicine, but her passion is rooted in naturopathic, integrative medicine. Dr. Purves takes an evidence-based treatment approach while diving deep into her patient's health concerns. Empowering and educating her patients is her passion, solving problems for her patients to live their best and healthiest life. Her priority as your naturopathic doctor is to follow the best available evidence to date, working together to come up with an effective individualized treatment plan that meets her patient's goals and needs.

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One of the most common conditions women experience during their first trimester of their pregnancy is nausea and vomiting and although it is quite normal, it can cause women a lot of stress and fatigue as well as a loss of a lot of nutrients and fluids.

The cause isn’t fully understood. However, it’s mainly due to the increase – the exponential increase of hormones experienced during this time, mainly HCG, estrogen, and progesterone. These hormones have effects on all other cells in the body as well which can cause some of these gastrointestinal symptoms women feel.

Although nausea can be very frustrating and tiring for women, there are a lot of treatment options to help. Simple things like changing your diet and your lifestyle can make a huge impact, like having regular exercise or ensuring that there’s always food in your stomach. Having an empty stomach can actually make the nauseating symptoms much more severe. So keeping a snack in your purse or in your car will help alleviate some of these symptoms.

Dehydration is common in women with increased nausea and vomiting so it’s really important to find ways to replenish fluid in the body. If you’re not able to keep water down or have trouble taking in water, intravenous vitamin therapy is a great alternative.

With this treatment, your naturopathic doctor can also infuse vitamins directly into your blood stream. Vitamins such as B6 and B12 will help decrease the nauseous feeling as well as increase energy throughout your pregnancy. Again, it depends on the patient. And we often will design very specific treatment plans in terms of supplements and dietary change to help with these symptoms.  Lab tests, of course, play a big role in diagnosing digestive issues. So, we would look at systemic levels of inflammation. We can also measure hydrogen and methane on the breath to determine if there are any microorganisms contributing to these symptoms.  If you’re experiencing digestive issues of any kind and you’d like to learn more about what’s causing these symptoms, see your local naturopathic doctor.