my gf is 7 weeks pregnant and suffering badly from nausea any suggestions ?

Question

she has tried eating little but often , but to no avail . she has even tried eating foods that contain ginger like ginger biscuits and crystalised ginger... help ..

Answer 1

I am pasting by hand-out that I give to my clients with suggestions on dealing with morning sickness. Good luck!

Claudine Crews, CPM, LM

SUGGESTIONS FOR DEALING WITH NAUSEA AND VOMITTING OF PREGNANCY
Try what sounds the most appealing, but don't dismiss the other suggestions. Sometimes it's the thing that sounds the worst (like rice water!) that is exactly what you really need.
Some of the theoretical causes of "morning" sickness you really can't do anything about, like rapidly rising hormone levels. However, one thing that may cause and contribute to nausea, fatigue, dizziness, etc., is low blood sugar and that is something you can work on. Here are the ideas: Ref: "Holistic Midwifery Vol. I Care During Pregnancy" by Anne Frye and personal experience:
1.Eat small amounts throughout the day BEFORE you feel hungry (this keeps the blood sugar from dropping too low before eating.) Keep a bowl or dish of something you can just grab quickly. One client found keeping a bowl fool of raw broccoli to munch on really helped. Another discovered popcorn was the 'cure'.
2.Do not take supplements on an empty stomach (don't try to take them at all when the nausea and vomiting are really severe, except maybe B6.)
3.Eat before arising from bed each morning
4.Eat something (shoot for healthy) every two to three hours (the worse the nausea, the more frequently you should eat, but smaller amounts if necessary.)
5.Eat foods you know will settle your stomach; yogurt, cottage cheese, cereal, toast, crackers are a few suggestions. Sharp cheddar cheese may be well tolerated by some women as the sharp smell and taste increases salivation and digestion, placing less burden on the stomach
6.Be sure to include many high protein foods
7.Beverages such as carbonated drinks may help initially to settle the stomach but should not be taken regularly or "lived on." Nutritious foods are really needed to turn the pattern around.
8.Eat a high protein with carbs snack (like yogurt) before going to bed and whenever you wake in the night (frequent waking signifies that your blood sugar is low, even if you don't feel hungry)
9.Drink to a healthy thirst, avoid dehydration. Women often find plain water more tolerable if they add lemon or if they drink it very cold (Don't try to eat and drink at the same time. Try to space your food with your drink by about 30 minutes. When fluids are hard going down try to get them down in frozen form, such as frozen juice bars, ice chips, etc. Try freezing some herbal teas, such as red raspberry, ginger, peach tree, and making ice chips from them. Alternatively, sometimes something very hot will go down, such as hot broth or tea.
10.Moderate exercise will assist the body in mobilizing toxins and high levels of hormones through the liver and out of the body.
11.Avoid spicy or greasy foods (I personally have had good luck getting red of nausea with a low-carb tortilla and lightly grilled or simmered onions!)
12.Eat a high complex-carbohydrate food, such as crackers followed by a high protein food 20 minutes later.
13.Eat an unrefined sweet food (such as fruit) followed by a high protein food shortly afterwards (the sweet will begin to bring the blood sugar up and the protein will help to stabilize it.)
14.Inadequate dietary intake quickly leads to burning stored fat for energy needs. This causes ketones to appear in the urine. This process can lead to more nausea.
15.Dizziness may accompany morning sickness. Lie down with a very cold cloth across your eyes and breathe evenly and deeply until the dizziness passes. Darkening the room may also help.
16.If gas, bloating, bowel irregularities, abdominal pain, etc., are present the symptoms may be related to a food allergy.
Some more specific measures:
1.If the vomitus looks like bile, drink a cup of water with 2 tsp. of salt added upon arising. Usually this will cause vomiting once, and then stabilize the stomach.
2.Drink a small amount (start with 2 oz., then try 4oz., increasing to a tolerable amount, if needed) 'Third Wind', 'Recharge' or another natural foods brand electrolyte balanced liquid before eating or when nauseous.
3.Eat a boiled egg. While this may sound awful, eggs are perfectly balanced protein and can calm the nausea quickly in some cases.
4.Take powered ginger in 00 size capsules throughout the day, up to 2 capsules every 2-3 hours if necessary.
5.Take Ginger root tea in tablespoon doses at the onset of nausea. This is especially good when combined with peach tree leaves. (Use leaves from trees that have not been sprayed with pesticides or fungicides!)
6.Drink Peach leaf tea (Use leaves from tree that have not been sprayed with pesticides or fungicides!)
7.Drink peppermint or spearmint leaf infusion first thing in the morning
8.Drink anise or fennel seed tea on rising or chew either of these seeds during the day
9.Take 1 tsp apple cider vinegar in 8 oz warm water first thing in the morning
10.Rub lobelia tincture on the feet, under the arms and on the abdomen to sooth tension and spasms with trigger vomiting.
11.Take B complex and try extra B1 and B6 for 2 weeks (long term use of isolated B vitamins can cause deficiencies of the others). *** Many women have dramatic improvements when they supplement with B6. As much as 50 mg of B6 can be taken every 4 hours, along with 400 mg of magnesium each morning. You might start with trying 50 mg twice daily, once 20 minutes before arising and once at night
12.Bee pollen in teaspoon doses has helped some women.
13.Raspberry leaf tea or infusion - drink 1 - 2 cups daily before rising or suck on ice cubes made from the infusion
14.Acupressure wrist bands can be purchased which put pressure on the anti-nausea point at the inner wrist. These work wonderfully for some women. (These may be sold as "seabands" or "motion sickness" bands and are available at some health food stores or pharmacies.)
15.Take small sips of the following tea throughout the day, but no more than 1 cup in a 24 hour period: 1 part cinnamon, 5 parts blackberry leaves, 5 parts yarrow, 10 parts red raspberry leaves; mix and steep in 1/2 cup boiling water for 1/2 hour.
Try to keep track of what works, what makes things worse, etc. If you begin to feel terrible, think back on how long it's been since you ate, what you ate or drank, etc. See if there is a pattern. The most likely culprit is low blood sugar. The real key to dealing with low blood sugar is to eat very, very frequently! Every hour or two, and whenever you wake up during the night. Hopefully, some of these suggestions will help.

Answer 2

Eating small amounts all through the day can help. When I was pregnant, I had to eat something immediately after I woke up, even though I wasn't hungry yet. If I waited until I was hungry then I would feel nauseous. Hopefully, this will pass soon! Congratulations! :)

Answer 3

I had this my WHOLE pregnancy. My suggestion....white bread...soft as it comes. That is all I would eat for weeks. It was the only thing that worked for me. White bread and lemon-lime soda was all I could keep down.

Water would make me throw up in seconds. It was weird.

Just keep her on blan things. Rice cakes are great too (original), even baby foods...I suggest peaches or applesauce. plain oatmeal, corn flakes or Cheerios (no milk). Just food that dont really have flavor. She needs to keep a base in her stomach if she can.

Answer 4

Go to the docter and ask for suggestions. Tell her to rest in bed and give her 7up and soda crackers.
Eat if you think it might be related to hunger.
Try to go to the bathroom.
Eat something that has peppermint in it. Candy canes, gum, something! In about 5 five minutes, your stomachache should start showing signs of getting better.
Take something like Tums that are meant for stomachaches, then watch TV or something to get it off your mind for about 30 minutes, then it should be better.
Avoid consuming harsh substances such as acidic pops and juices, alcohol, and spicy foods. If something is really wrong in there, these could irritate it and make it worse
Take a nap. You always feel better after a nap!
One old trick is to drink sugar salt water. To make this all you have to do is get a glass of water, and put about a teaspoon of salt and sugar in the water. It tastes nasty, but alot of times it works wonders. If it doesnt work, it isnt your normal stomach ache.

Warnings

Don't starve yourself to "make it go away", chances are it'll get worse.

Drink a Maalox cocktail "Put a few drops of spirits of peppermint into Maalox and mix it with one quart of distilled water," says Christa Farnon, M.D., associate director of Occupational Medical Services for SmithKline Beecham, a pharmaceuticals company in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Take a few sips of this to soothe your upset stomach and use the rest later, as needed
Eat crackers. "In general, when people are slightly nauseated, if they can make themselves eat some very plain food they will feel better," says Robert M. Stern, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Pennsylvania State University in University Park and a researcher on motion sickness and nausea for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "I recommend low-fat foods, such as crackers." Don't overdo it, though. A few crackers will ease your nausea, but too much of any food may make you feel even worse.
Exercise your mind. "Sometimes keeping busy can help people," suggests Dr. Stern. "Before they know it, the nausea passes." Play a mental game, read a book or strike up a conversation with someone to keep the nausea out of your mind
Rest your body. Astronauts on the first space flights had few complaints about motion-induced nausea. The reason may have been that they were forced to remain still, because the area inside the capsule was so confined. Try not to move around too much, even when your stomach is doing somersaults, recommends Dr. Stern. Most important of all: Try to keep your head still
Say "I'll pass" on the milk. "Milk and milk products are much more difficult to digest than other foods," says Dr. Farnon. "They contain proteins and fats and create mucus. This means that they are harsher on the stomach." She advises clear liquids such as tea or juices served at room temperature, never cold, when you are trying to recover from nausea
Seek relief in nonprescription drugs. Some over-the-counter medications such as Pepto-Bismol, Maalox and Mylanta are known to help calm nauseated stomachs. It depends on the cause of nausea, doctors agree, but an irritated stomach may feel better after a couple of spoonfuls
Don't forget Dramamine. "Some nauseated people might be helped by the anti-motion sickness drugs such as Dramamine," says Dr. Stern. Although he acknowledges that little is known about how Dramamine works to ease nausea, he suggests that you give it a try and keep this over-the-counter medication on hand if it works.
Drink flat soda. "Just open up a carbonated soft drink and let it go flat," says Dr. Grant. He recommends ginger ale, but other soft drinks work just as well. Dr. Farnon suggests the flat syrup of Coca-Cola, available in most drugstores, sipped over cracked ice when your tummy becomes queasy.

Answer 5

Gaviscon, Rennies, mints, milk. Eating little and often to keep acid in stomach. I downed loads of Gaviscon in both pregnancies - tastes vile but is safe to take and effective. I had heartburn earlier than 25 weeks in both pregnancies! Hope this helps!

Answer 6

i found boiled sweets helpful. with previous pregnancies ginger did work but not this time. ive found certain foods dont make me feel so ill like fish, bananas, apple jiuce and melon. suggest she tries different things sipping any fluids regually can help and im drinking lemonade to help with mine.

hope some of this helps

Answer 7

talk to your doctor becasue she has to be able to eat and keep some down, the doctor should be able to give her anti nausea medicine that is totally safe to take while pregnant. Good luck and call a doctor right away. she and the baby needs nourishment. (Try saltene crackers?)

Answer 8

i have heard that eating tums first thing in the morning helps settle stomach acids and make the rest of the day go by faster, and the calcium in the tums is good for the baby...good luck

Answer 9

I was always told to eat crackers such as saltine crackers when you wake up in the morning and when you go to bed. Make sure you do it right when you wake up and right before you go to bed.

Answer 10

She needs to tell her doc that she can't eat enough because she is too nauseous. Ask if she can have some anti-nausea pills.

Answer 11

i had morning sickness all day
so i started drinking the jucie out of the jar of green olives belive it or not it took my morning sickness away i would never had belived any one that told me this but it worked for me i was told to try eating lemon heads but i dont like those

if she can stand it tell her to try to drink the green olive juice no joking