Aromatherapy in Pregnancy: A Complementary Approach to Care

Structural and functional changes that occur in pregnancy can affect women’s physically and psychologically health and quality of life negatively. In this article, it is aimed to review the evidence-based studies carried out aiming at preventing, reducing or improving the symptoms in pregnant process using aromatherapy. When the literature is examined, studies investigating the effect of aromatherapy on nausea and vomiting, fatigue, energy level, anxiety, anger, parasympathetic nerve activity, stria gravidarum, pruritus, backpain in pregnancies have been reached. It shows that there is a need for high quality randomised control trials related to the effect of aromatherapy on symtoms in pregnancy.