Daily Mirror 33 ME AND MY HEALTH.. FRANCES RUFFELLE TUESDAY 22.01.2013 of the5 best.. sore throat Dreadful sprays Ultra Chloraseptic 1Anaesthetic Throat Spray (£5.39, morning Lloydspharmacy) Three squirts of this powerful antiseptic spray will sickness go straight to the site of pain and help numb a sore throat in seconds. Choose from cost me blackcurrant, cherry or original menthol.

Covonia Throat Spray (£5.40, over the counter 2at pharmacies nationwide) This is a my role dual-action spray that tackles the discomfort of a troublesome ACTRESS: sore throat Frances is back with a local in Les Mis Like the Duchess of baby’s health because your baby in Les Mis anaesthetic, will take everything from you. while fighting Cambridge, award-winning You will suffer but the baby infection with a stage and screen actress is more likely to be stronger fast-acting Frances Ruffelle suffered because they’ve got strong antibacterial hormones holding them in place. ingredient. hyperemesis gravidarum, Eliza was born very quickly and acute morning sickness. painlessly and she’s a healthy Bee Health Currently starring in adult as are my two boys Nat 3Propolis and Felix. Throat Spray Les Miserables, the And despite the misery of that (£6.12, health 47-year-old mum of three, EXPECTING: Kate first pregnancy, once you see the food stores) including pop star Eliza end result – a beautiful baby – all For a natural Doolittle, explains how she the nausea is worth it. alternative, this I’ve been reading about Kate Middleton’s spray contains got through her pregnancies. pregnancy and all I would say to propolis, a her is that it doesn’t necessarily In Les Miserables I play substance get better with subsequent a prostitute – alongside collected by pregnancies. I was in bed for Anne Hathaway. Being honey bees from five months with Eliza, in the film brought back buds and trees slightly longer with Nat, a lot of memories of my time in New York that have who is now 23, and for and being pregnant with Eliza. I was 21 antibacterial Felix, who is 17 now, it was and playing Eponine on Broadway in Les properties. the entire nine months. Mis. As I’d grown up eating healthily and Ideal for I was literally in bed the exercising, I wrongly thought I’d sail soothing a whole time and if I tried through my pregnancy. sore throat. to go downstairs to the It quickly became obvious that wasn’t kitchen to make myself A.Vogel Echinaforce Sore going to happen. I was constantly nauseous PREGNANT: As Eponine on Broadway some burnt toast and tea, Throat Spray (£8.99, and lost count of how often I was vomiting. which is all I could face, I had CLOSE: With health4 food stores or www. I drank water and ate bread but it to sit on the floor and get daughter Eliza avogel.co.uk) wouldn’t stay down. I couldn’t chew gum, because pregnant. Right now she’s young and my breath back before I Made from extracts of even brush my teeth! when you’re chewing working on her career. could even stand up to put freshly Every time I tried, I’d gum or sucking sweets you’re Since my pregnancies, my health’s been Chewing gum the toast on. harvested throw up. I was so sick not feeling nauseous because you’re absolutely fine. I’m just as energetic as I Starving hungry, I went echinacea I didn’t even make it to swallowing your own saliva. It doesn’t used to be and I actually run more than helped me to down to 6st but I tried hard plant and my surprise birthday sound too healthy but it worked for me. when I was younger. I still wear the same not go into hospital because sage leaves, party that the producers cope so that’s It would be lovely if they could come up size clothes I wore when I was 20, although it’s so boring just lying there. research had organised. with some way of stopping women feeling my body feels aches and pains more. If I needed a drip, I begged the suggests I remember thinking, my tip to Kate like this because a lot of women also have I’ll be 50 in three years’ time but I think doctors to let me go home, but these herbs ‘This isn’t what it says in other kids to take care of or work to do. I worrying about ageing then I’d have to come back when can help to all the pregnancy books’, and I was lucky enough to have help but others is the worst thing you the symptoms returned. strengthen became so ill I had to keep going into aren’t so lucky. can do. I’m just hoping It was a nightmare but at least I knew the immune hospital and being drip-fed. Eventually, I I’ve talked to my mum Sylvia Young – to live a full life as long there would be an end to it and my system and had to leave the play and return to London, owner of the theatre school – and my as I can and stay fit. symptoms vanished the second Felix soothe where in the end I spent five months in younger sister Alison about hyperemesis As told to Nick McGrath was born. throat irritation. bed before Eliza was eventually born. gravidarum, and their pregnancies have One lesson I did learn by my third M FRANCES RUFFELLE PLAYS THE TITLE ROLE IN PIAF I also remember being on a drip in the been amazing, so it’s not a genetic thing, pregnancy was that chewing gum helped AT THE CURVE THEATRE, LEICESTER FROM FEB 22 TO Manuka Honey and Cedars-Sinai Hospital in LA, four months unless it’s from my dad. I don’t think my me to cope so that’s my little tip to Kate – MARCH 16. Propolis Throat Spray pregnant with Eliza, and being invited to experience will put Eliza off becoming (£10.99,5 health food stores appear on The Tonight Show Starring or www.genuinemanuka. Johnny Carson. com) One minute I was on a drip then within WHAT IS HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM? This spray an hour I was rehearsing at the NBC studios, Dr Daghni Rajasingam from the Royal College of Obstetricians some women it may carry on into the second trimester for the blends nature’s throwing up in the toilet in the dressing and Gynaecologists, explains: same reason – this is very rare. antibiotic – room just before going on. It was just “Hyperemesis gravidarum is severe morning sickness and is Symptoms can include persistent vomiting, dehydration, manuka honey horrendous. Doctors tried giving me a fairly common condition during early pregnancy. tiredness and dizziness. When these symptoms are severe, from New raspberry leaf tea, flat Diet Coke too, but HG is caused by the beta HCG levels (human chronic admission to hospital may be needed for observation and to Zealand – with nothing worked. I even tried having gonadotropin – aka the hormone that the body produces treat dehydration with intravenous fluids, however, this essential oils some acupuncture. during pregnancy) in the body and the woman’s sensitivity to usually only means a few days in hospital. to soothe Some people say that women can be it. It varies from woman to woman as some are more sensitive The best advice for anyone suffering from HG is to get plenty soreness, kill allergic to pregnancy and perhaps my to it than others. The bHCG levels are elevated in the first of rest and drink lots of fluid. The condition usually subsides bacteria and hormones were just too strong for my body, trimester, which is when hyperemesis gravidarum is more by week 12 and with early diagnosis and treatment, there is no also freshen but one positive was that doctors told me commonly encountered, and decline thereafter, although for reason why you shouldn’t go on to have a healthy pregnancy.” your breath. that I shouldn’t worry too much about the