What's Your Remedy For Nausea?

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frigilux

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Sorry to be indelicate, but I'm home with the stomach flu and could really use some ideas for relief. It started yesterday but has gotten worse today.

My usual remedy is to have a popsicle, which is cooling and gets a bit of liquid into the system. Unfortunately, I have none in the house and am not up to a trip to the grocer.

Thanks in advance for your help, kids!
 
Sorry to hear you're not feeling well, Eugene. Do you have anything in the house with ginger? Ginger ale, strong ginger tea, or even crytallized ginger should all help. (The stronger the ginger the better.) Another stomach settler is white rice with a little cottage cheese.

I hope you're feeling better soon!
 
Hi Frigilux,

If you are not vomiting get yourself an anti-emetic like Maxolon. If you can't keep anything down, get your doctor to give you an injection of that drug. Depending on the severety of your nausea, that is about the most effective thing you can do. Buy yourself electrolyte popsicles or drinks - they are much better for your body than sugary coke or ginger ale. Especially if you are also suffering from diarrhoea.

Get well soon.

Rapunzel
 
Ginger anything helps

This is proven. Whether or not Coke helps in restoring electrolytes when one is suffering from vomiting and diarrhea is subject more to culture wars than hard science. Since the intestines are able to re-absorb various minerals in with the glucose out of the bloodstream, I don't understand the passionate arguments against it. But this one has been argued up and down for decades and will be forever. Probably has more to do with resistance to the corporate brand name than anything else.
If it helps you, great. If not, then forget it.
I like to drink Ginger Ale when sick, myself.
Sorry you don't feel good, hope you get better soon.
 
Ginger ale

or Emetrol (a non prescription drugstore item.)

If it persists, Phenergan! which is a prescription.

Your blood glucose might be low. When my blood glucose is low, I get very nauseated.

Good luck, it's not pleasant.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Thanks, everyone! I have a huge hunk of fresh ginger and some Coke in the fridge. I would imagine that some ginger slices steeped in near-boiling water would make ginger tea, wouldn't it?

I had some really wonderful home-made ginger ale at a Mongolian-style restaurant in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago and planned to find a recipe online. Haven't had time to do that. With all the suggestions to drink ginger ale, it would have come in handy, today.
 
The easiest method for

homemade ginger ale is to make a ginger syrup, and add sparkling water to an ounce or two of syrup.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
GINGER

Ginger tablets from the "health" store ................. plus again at the health food store is what they call "nux vomica" they are tiny tablets that you put under your tongue and they are an herbal anti-emetic. They have DEFINATELY worked for me.
 
Ginger tea !

I have found (as well as studies) that steeping some grated or sliced FRESH ginger root in boiling water realy does the trick. You can add a little sugar or honey if you like. Do make sure that you keep your electrolyte levels up. Even if you are vomiting you should still take as much liquid as possible. This helps in two ways. 1, it keeps you from dehydrating. 2, It makes the act of vomiting easier if you have fluids. Much easier on your body than dry heaves!

Good luck and I hope that you are feeling well soon!!!!

Please everyone...make sure to wash your hands frequently!!

Rich
 
I used to do a lot of recreational/racing sailboating, and the word was that ginger is as effective in preventing sea-sickness as medications such as Dramamine - but you have to injest it well before boarding the boat.

I've found that just chewing on a slice of fresh ginger helps for mild cases of nausea. Plus, other than being a spicy, there are no side effects.

A medication which seems to work pretty well is transdermscop. These are dermal patches - obviously a more effective way of administering a medication when you can't keep anything down the gullet.

Another sailing hint: if you know you are prone to sea-sickness, but need to eat something, then try canned peaches. They won't prevent you from vomiting, but they are relatively more pleasant coming back up again than most other foods :-).
 
Sucking on a lemon helps cut the nausea.

Works well even if you do toss your cookies to get that taste and feeling out of your mouth!

FEEL BETTER! If this is the one that went around this area last week, it only lasts a day!
 
I pour a glass of Ginger Ale and put a teaspoon of ground Ginger into it. Watch the reaction in the glass when you do this. Then add ice and sip along.
Within an hour you'll feel much better. BTW, this is a very spicy drink, but it does work.

Alternatively, Coke over crushed ice works well too.
 
Green Tea with Honey

And cancel all calls and watch trash TV. Almost never, I put a shot of good Brandy in the tea with honey to go to sleep, but use as you feel fit if it's a hard days night.
 
Anne Coulter

I think she was hired as a Chica by the Republican party to show America that Republican woman can have tits and blond hair and stil have an opinion given them by Republican men in some rich man's bar in Newport Beach, or La Jolla, CA.

I think she is pretty good as what she does, look good,
hate Democrats.
That is her chip implant from the third Stepford movie she will no doubt star in and not know why she is being made fun of.
What is her political career? A Republican Blonde?
I have socks older, blonder, and more reliable than she is, and would not want her anywhere near my toes, let alone my head.
Beware the Republican Blonde Woman who comes from nowhere and looks good on TV.

We have had Robots in the White House Before this next election.
 
coca cola?

Hi,
here coca-cola is known to provocate nausea even if I heard someone saying that it can stop it...

What about a very good glass of fresh water? I hostenly prefer nothing to avoid it but...wait a minute and why not...YOGA!
 
I had heard Coke SYRUP is the key.

Water sounds great. It is my understanding that water can help one lose weight. Frequently thirst is misunderstood as hunger. Have water instead!
It helps me at that stage before nausea when the stomach is complaining.
 
HELLO EUGENE: it's lunch time and i hope you're feel

hate to see a good man down, always startles me

If you're in a lighter mood, the best cure for nausea is vomiting ;'D

One of Jean-Paul Sartre's plays is titled, "La Nausee." Often wondered what it's about, besides, of course, nausea, Your dilemma brought it to mind. I'll put it on my list. Thanks !

One of the sweetest women I know, a school nurse named Nancy, swears by the Coke protocol--flat, (shake it till the fizz dies), and room temp.

To your health then, I'll shake my luncheon coke and pfizz it all over myself YEAHHHHHHHHH
 
I feel your pain

Nausea is caused by a "stoppage" of the natural peristaltic action of the digestive system called an "ileus". My Father, who was an MD used to put his ear to our stomachs to listen for either the natural gurgling or a healthy system or the silence of an unhealthy gut. If we were dry-heaving in the middle of the night he'd give us paragoric(an opiate)dissolved in some water. If we couldn't keep anything down, he'd give us something stronger injected. On his advice, I keep a prescription of Compazine suppositories in the fridge for emergencies when I'm sick and can't keep anything down. I empathize. No pain, in my opinion, is worse than the nausea of the stomach flu. I also keep a jar of Coca Cola syrup in the fridge for the next day. He would go to our local soda shop and actually buy the syrup for us. It was always the only thing that he would give us for our first draught after the storm. He said it was used in the hospitals for the same reason and that it wasn't fully understood why the stomach tolerated it, but they thought it had something to do with a property of the cola extracts. And no, it had nothing to do with the cocaine that used to be in Coca-Cola before WW 1.
 
What a cool story, Ken. Thank You

Cocoa leaves and Kola nuts are two of Mother Nature's finest most versatile herbals. Wonder if they'll find that it's the recently discovered flavenoids that work the magic.
 
Ann " The Man" Coulter

Oh Brett Somers!

You are too funny!! The goal here is to alleviate Eugene's nausea, not make it worse.

That wretched beast could make anyone sick to their stomach!

Now about your nausea, I agree with David. I usually go with Ginger Tea or the throat lozenges from Whole Foods Market.

Feel Better Eugene!
 
Ginger ale rocks.

Avoid the Phenergan at all costs. You may loose your nausea, but it will knock you on your butt for several hours.
 
I am sorry you have crummy tummy. I don't know if you have any in your house, but according to a friend from Slovenia, one shot of Slivovitz will stop nausea dead in its tracks, although it is a brutal experience. Ken is right, Compazine suppositories are life savers. That is the friendly, easy to take secret bullet hidden in my refrigerator, but I hope I never need one. Paragoric is the absolute worst tasting medicine ever. I don't think it is available anymore, but when my sister was teething we had it in the house and I remember being made to take some when I had a stomach virus--yech. Peppermint is also supposed to calm the stomach. It's easier to keep liquids down if you only take a teaspoon at a time. As soon as you can get out or have someone go to the store for you, pick up some Pedialite to replenish your electrolytes. I hope you feel better soon. Tom
 

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