Nausea remedies / Food to eat?

ruthyk

What are your tried and true nausea remedies?  And what foods do/did you eat when nothing sounds appealing?

I'm drinking ginger/mint tea and have crystallized ginger to chew on. And I'm trying to be constantly snacking on something during the day so that my stomach doesn't get completely empty, but morning is the worst after sleeping and not eating for 8 hours. 

ali-1411

Pretty much all I could stomach was Sprite and saltine crackers. 

Mrs.Purdue

just thinking back on this makes me a little nauseous!

for me:

peppermints (i went through BAGS of peppermints - i kept them on me at.all.times), coke (if you aren't giving up caffeine - and if you aren't puking - coke sucks to puke), grilled cheese, macaroni and cheese (but i only liked easy mac - gross!), peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, pretzels.  seems like there was one more staple, but i must have blocked it out of my mind. 

every once in a while, i could stomach a chicken strip, but that was about the only protein I ate for the first 18 weeks (when the m/s finally went away).  

my doc said that as soon as something sounds good, eat it.  didn't really matter what it was.  if you have to force yourself to eat it, chances are, it's not going to stay down.  

august8080

Nothing helped mine. Just eat whatever you think you can keep down at that moment. 

Sorry that's not more positive--I hope you're able to control yours better, as some people are. My nausea and vomiting was pretty severe so hopefully yours isn't! And I hope yours passes quickly!

Mainer-in-Texas

Sour patch kids, oddly. When I'm not PG, ginger tea is my go-to nausea remedy. But it made me want to gag when I had m/s, while sour things seemed to cut-through the nausea.

Mrs.Purdue

Mainer-in-Texas:

Sour patch kids, oddly. When I'm not PG, ginger tea is my go-to nausea remedy. But it made me want to gag when I had m/s, while sour things seemed to cut-through the nausea.

oh yes, I liked sour patch kids too.  and lemon heads.  i had some preggie pops too that were ok, but anything really sour was good for me.  

thethomps

I drank tons of ginger ale and lemon-lime gatorade this pregnancy.  I also drank peppermint tea.  The microwave soft pretzels helped my stomach settle.  And for some reason potato and onion pierogies were a food I could handle without getting nauseous.  Ginger snaps also helped.

And FWIW, I cannot even look at ginger ale right now without .

ETA:  Mainer reminded me - sour patch kids and sour skittles got me through many a day.  And those sour licorice things, too.  

christym0606

ditto everyone else on the sour patch kids.  I ate a ton of those things.

brideonjuly8

Plain baked potato with a little butter, diet cherry 7up, the HEB brand of lemon drops, preggie pop drops, bananas, moist bread like banana bread or blueberry muffins, anything loaded with bland carbs.  Meclizine is an over the counter motion sickness med (you might have to ask for it behind the counter) but it helped me a ton, more so than zofran sometimes. 

angelaggie

I'm with Purcue. My dov said if it sounds good then eat it. I took an extra B vitamin and ate green grapes. Doc recommended the green grapes and that really helped me. 

SareBear30

Fortunately it hasn't been that bad for me yet. But sprite is my new best friend. French fries are usually my go to nausea relief, and they have also been helping, along with crackers. I've been snacking in salty nuts too so I don't get too hungry.

One of my friends had it really bad and said it helped a lot to eat two saltines prior to even getting out of bed in the morning. 

Chandley

besides the ginger.....lemon chills, lemon water, lemon anything helped. weird that sour helped, but it did. also eating a granola bar first thing in the morning before i got out of bed - left it on the night table next to me so it was there first thing in the morning!

kirknsarah

People have already listed most of what has helped me....bland carbs all the way! ginger snaps, pretzels, granola bars, peanut butter crackers, toast with applesauce, gatorade. I was feeling super sick last week and it turns out I was dehydrated. After I forced myself to drink a lot of gatorade for two days I felt much better. I also eat every 30 minutes or so, and just a few bites. If I eat much more than that I feel sick for hours. Hope it passes soon!

ruthyk

Thanks for all the ideas ladies!  Had a baked potato for lunch and that definitely helped!

sweetdreams2000

Yikes, I just had flashbacks.  Ginger & peppermint were on my aversion list (it was so bad that thinking about it now makes me a little nauseaus!).

To combat the empty stomach feeling - I would eat a few goldfish, pretzels, or animal crackers before I went to sleep, and I would leave a little plastic container of them on my nightstand.  When I woke up in the morning before I even got up, I'd eat a handful.  Also, I kept snack baggies of all 3 (an crackers, pretzels, goldfish) at my desk and in my purse, and would snack on them almost hourly so that I could keep my stomach from feeling empty.  If I got to the point where I was hungry, I would get sick.

And this one is wierd and may be related to me - but I found that eating about 1/2 of a pickle about 15 min before each time I ate helped with the acid in my stomach and allowed me to actually eat.  I had horrible food aversions on top of the m/s, so I ended up eating a LOT of potatoes.  I made batches of crockpot baked potato soup, baked potatoes, and mashed potatoes.  I think I ate potatoes for about 3 wks straight. 

Oh, the other thing - gingerale and sprite didnt work for me.  I found about 1/2 a can of coke did the trick sometimes (also works for those godawful headaches I would get).  I didnt even drink coke that often, but my nurse told me to try it, and sure enough, it would help.