morning sickness any good cures?

Answer 1

General Remedies:

* Avoid warm places as heat can increase the nausea feelings.
* Take naps during the day (but not right after eating). Tiredness plays a big part in morning sickness.
* Get enough sleep at night.
* Get out of bed slowly in the morning.
* Try eating plain crackers or dry cereal before you get out of bed in the morning.

Smells:

* Open windows or turn on exhaust fans when cooking and after meals.
* Cooking in the microwave usually produces less odors.
* Silly as it sounds, carry a handkerchief with a few drops of a non nausea causing essential oil (lemon for example) in it and breath through it if you can't get away from the smell that is bothering you.

Food and Drink:

* Avoid greasy or spicy foods as they often cause nausea or heartburn.
* Eat what you want when you want it. Your cravings will not lead you the wrong way.
* Have frequent protein snacks. (Low fat meats and seafood, nuts, eggs and beans are high protein.)
* Eat smaller meals every two hours or so.
* Eating something salty before a meal can help you "make it through" a meal.
* Do not drink fluids with your meals.
* Non caffeinated teas like peppermint and ginger can help calm nausea.
* Drink small amounts of fluids regularly though out the day to avoid dehydration.
* Do not skip meals if you can help it.
* Avoid spicy and fried food - both eating and smelling it can increase your nausea.
* Cold food may have less nausea inducing smells associated with them.

Supplements:

* Try taking your prenatals later in the day.
* Talk to your doctor about:
o Vitamin B6 - 50 mg. daily. Vitamin B6 has been shown to help with pregnancy induced nausea.
o Ginger capsules: 250 mg. three times daily. Ginger has long been associated with alleviating nausea. (Remember drinking ginger ale when you felt sick when you were little?)
o Ask your doctor if you can stop taking your Prenatals temporarily to see if the nausea diminishes. You may still need to take a Folic Acid supplement to help protect your baby.
o Talk to your doctor about not taking iron supplements unless you are anemic. Iron supplements can be hard for your stomach to deal with.

Answer 2

Ginger ale and saltine crackers are good for nausea and upset stomach. Decaffinated hot tea will help you relax, which in turn will relax the tense muscles in your body and around your stomach and abdomen. A warm bath also has the same effect.

Cool towels on the forehead will help headaches, if you don't want to take a medication.

Laying on your back and elevating your feet will take the pressure from your lower back, stomach and abdomen and keep you from throwing up. Don't lay on your stomach.

For a sour stomach, potato bread with peanut butter will help neutralize the acids in your stomach. No milk! It will only curdle in your stomach and make you more sick.

Elevating your feet will also help with any dizziness or light headedness that you may experience (regardless of pregnancy). Don't put your head down between your knees. You could pass out and knock yourself a good one.

Hope this helps!!

Answer 3

Traditional way of curing morning sickness is to eat something sour or a slice of ginger but I think you'd better ask a midwife, doctor or health visitor for advice.

Answer 4

There are these wrist bands that are sold for sea sickness that help some women. Also nibbling on crackers or something to keep a little food in your stomach might help.

Ginger is good. Peppermint tea.

Answer 5

For the first 3 months of pregnancy with my youngest, I lived on plain lays potato chips and milk. I had also used plain lays chips with my other 2 pregnancies to help with the nausia, if not that perhaps trying ritz crackers. Congrats on your pregnancy and good luck with the morning sickness.

Answer 6

Your vitamins and minerals are not in balance.

If they are correct you won't have morning sickness.

Make sure your taking your Prescribed prenatal vitamins. They help to keep it all under control.

A Little lemon juice in a glass of ice water alway calms my stomach. Congratulations!!

Answer 7

As a man this one seems almost like a gimme. Just get up in the afternoon. Doh!

Answer 8

Try candied ginger, or spearmint tea.Spearmint is generally recommended for pregnant women than peppermint.

Answer 9

i had it really bad with my first baby, as soon as i opened my eyes i was sick nothing really stopped it but if i eat a dry biscuit as soon as i woke up it sometimes helped, not letting yourself get Hungary also helped

Answer 10

easiest thing to do is take a bottle of ginger ale and a tin of mint Altoids with you.