Your favorite cures for queasiness.
superhelga
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Just curious to hear what other people find useful.
I like peppermint tea with fresh ginger when I feel sick,
but now that gives me a heartburn. So now I'm looking for other smart ideas.
I like peppermint tea with fresh ginger when I feel sick,
but now that gives me a heartburn. So now I'm looking for other smart ideas.
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Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar helped the most
Probiotics
Ginger chews
crackers
Luckily, I wasn't too bad. Hopefully others have some good suggestions, too!0 -
I had a different list of treatments with my pregnancies:
With my first:
1. Mint (eat it, chew it, drink it, or just smell it) - I put a drop of mint essential oils in my scarfs and if I got queasy I'd cover my mouth and nose with the scented part of my scarf.
2. Lemon Drops (the big crystalized ones). I popped them in my mouth ALOT.
3. Dairy - don't ask why but a glass of milk would almost always keep my nausea at bay
4. Medication (but only after being on it for a week)
5. Avoiding tomatoes
With my second:
1. Dairy (this is the only one that worked both times)
2. NOTHING could touch my neck (no more scarves and I had to cut my hair short)
3. Fruit (veggies always made me sick - but I could keep fruit down)
4. Cold Cereal - the combo of the dairy and easy to digest grains was my "go to" if I couldn't keep anything else down. Plus fortified kids cereals have folic acid (and I couldnt keep my prenatals down so I needed a lot of foods that were high in folic acid.
%. Focus on breathing - seriously if I focused all of my energy on breathing sometimes I could stop myself from throwing up.
What I wish I would have tried:
1. Giner Ale
2. Acupuncture
3. Reflexology0 -
Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar helped the most
Probiotics
Ginger chews
crackers
Luckily, I wasn't too bad. Hopefully others have some good suggestions, too!
Do you take apple cider vinegar first thing in the am? and do you drink it straight or with juice/water?0 -
Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar helped the most
Probiotics
Ginger chews
crackers
Luckily, I wasn't too bad. Hopefully others have some good suggestions, too!
Do you take apple cider vinegar first thing in the am? and do you drink it straight or with juice/water?
When I have discomforts or am sick I do one tablespoon up to three times per day with either water or juice (much more tolerable with juice, imo), but at the minimum I do one tablespoon each evening to keep symptoms at bay. If you drink it straight it can burn your throat because it is so acidic. It doesn't seem like it would help heartburn, but it does!! It also helped me with other tummy discomforts and surprisingly, my allergies. am now doing it after noticing a bit of swelling last week (35 weeks) and it is all gone! Swelling has yet to come back, so I am a firm believer in ACV.
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I had to head into the clinic today to get IV fluids because I have kept nothing down for the week and was getting really dehydrated. The prescribed Zofran to take as needed, and today is the first time since getting pregnant that food actually tasted good. I mean like, incrediably delicious good!
Anywho, back to where I was going. The doctor told me that when she did OB clinicals there was an old nurse who would tell patients to eat honey nut cherrios. Something about the carb plus the little bit of sugar would sometimes help nausea to pass. I plan on trying that as needed, but was an interesting thought.
Lemon drops during the day when I was pregnant with my first helped immensely. I think it was just giving the salvia something to do that helped mostly. At meal time, I had to eat dill pickles with my food. I was not that sick with my second child. And definately not as sick as I have been this pregnancy. Hope you get feeling better!0 -
I use ginger ale and peppermint - they worked with my first two and with my current pregnancy. I also just recently got some anti-nausea pills due to becomming too dehydrated from vomiting. They seem to help, most of the time. They're not a cure and just help ease the symptoms a bit.0
