Nausea - can this be caused by food intolerances?

[SolidGold]

Or does anyone know what it could be?

I've had this on and off for as long as I can remember - and that's a long time, as I'm in my late forties!

Does anyone else have this?

Sometimes it's so bad I have to clamp my mouth shut!

Yet it's different to the feeling you get when you're going to be sick.

I suffer with emetaphobia, so find this extremely stressful.

I have over the past year or so tried cutting out dairy and wheat and think it improved. My diet is not so healthy at present (partly comfort eating!) and the nausea is back.

I wondered if anyone else has this and has a clue what causes it and has tips regarding getting rid of it.

I'm also very stressed due to our situation at present and struggle in general with stress, so wondered if that could play a role.

I think I am made to feel a bit nauseous after eating dairy, which is a shame because I love dairy foods. I just have to eat less dairy than I would otherwise.

I have also had stomach aches brought on by stress, so yes that's also a possibility.

I have also had stomach aches caused by jeans waistband being too tight! Usually in the evening.

Yes , my daughter has multiple food intolerances and is nauseas as a reaction.

Have ou ever looked at eosinophilia eosophagitis.

I'm a fellow emetophobe, so know exactly how you feel ( well not exactly! But can sympathise on that front!)

yes i used to suffer a lot from nausea and although i often wondered if it was something in my diet i never could be bothered to find out what..

aaaanyway, had to cut out dairy for ds2 and ds3 and since starting eating again i've felt awful. gives me the most terrible tummy.

so i reckon it was that all along and that i had got so used to it it was just manifesting as nausea

Yes. I did an elimination diet to see what was causing it. I ended up having up and down cameras but all they found was a small hernia at the top of my stomach and some small patches of inflammation. Diagnosis = probably acid reflux and unspecified food intolerances.

Depressingly it was:

High fat
High sugar
Heavily processed
Salty
Fruit especially tomatoes and anything tomato derived
Fizzy drinks
Spicy food
Heavy and hard to digest things like pizza cheese and lots of red meat.
Alcohol
Milk

Once I cut those out I felt so much better within a week or two. After a month or so I found I could tolerate small amounts of those foods except tomatoes and alcohol, just not the quantities I was eating before. Oh and I can still drink beer (thank goodness) but just small amounts. I also found it was worse if I drank a lot of liquid on an empty stomach. A good part of it was to do with stress as well so I worked on relaxing as much as I could.

It is a faff but once the nausea lifted I realised just how much of a negative effect it was having on my life. Plus as an added bonus I have dropped three dress sizes in a year. There are certain things like white wine that I just have to imagine putting in my mouth and I can almost feel the nausea coming over me again. I hated the limitations at first but if I slip and go back to old habits I feel so ill so quickly.

Thanks for the replies.

TheWandering, how did you find out what caused the problem? Did you just cut one thing out then the next? Or did you have a test?

I've never had a test and can't afford to at the moment.

I've never really had swallowing problems, or acid reflux.

You can take Motilium 10 for nausea. You can but it Over the counter.

Solid- I was referred to a gastroenterologist who suggested several methods from cutting out one thing like dairy for a month and seeing what happened. However the problem with that is dairy is in a lot of things you wouldn't expect, likewise wheat.

So we went with a good multivitamin and a month of eating very bland plain food. Potatoes, carrots, simple grains like couscous and quinoa, green beans, spinach, plain chicken and fish. Then I introduced things one at a time. It helped that her first advice was no alcohol, no sugar, no fizzy drinks, no high fat and salt foods so it was much easier to work out what was doing it. After having to sit very still for several hours having drunk a small amount of milk, I quickly realised that was a big trigger. In retrospect I already had an idea what the problem foods were, I always felt worse after pizza for example.

After about three months I had worked out what my trigger foods were and I now avoid them and have small amounts of the not so good stuff again. I wasn't actually thinking about good nutrition etc for my body, I had vaguely disordered eating where I was eating the wrong thing at the wrong time and often too much of it, so a big part of this has been retraining my brain.

I didn't manifest the classic signs of acid reflux (acid coming up in mouth, vomiting, damage to teeth etc) for years after the nausea. But I was told that the nausea was an early sign of overproduction of acid as well as my body trying to deal with the foods it couldn't digest properly. Other than the nausea I only had a tickle at the back of my throat, especially when I was lying down which made me cough a bit.

My mum follows a vegan, wheat and sugar free diet after having terrible problems with digestive issues and nausea and she has found it really helps.