HEARTBURN

[luboo]

Hi!
I am 22 weeks pregnant and suffering from TERRIBLE heartburn!!
I have pretty much had it since the beginning but it's getting worse. I am going through Gaviscon like there's no tomorrow!
Any tips for dealing with it, anyone?

A glass of full fat milk always helped with me, although it may not be what you want to hear if you are trying to keep your weight down.

polo mints

I have tried most of the heartburn remedies and i find that remegel is the best and works for me instantly, they are like a chewy sweet type thing, like a soft mint and not chalky like all the others seem to be, i found gavison liquid to be vile! made me want to be sick.

hth

Hi Luboo I lived on Gaviscon. Didn't find that anything else worked quick enough. Is there something you're eating that sets it off. Bread used to kill me. And yes, my dd had a head of black hair. Bet your sick of hearing 'oh your baby must have lots of hair'!! Smoothies are nice and cooling.

I agree with Hollyboo bread gave me terrible heartburn and Gaviscon was the only thing that helped i went through gallons of it, water also gave me heartburn.

when I was pregnant I drank loads of milk, wasn't full fat though, semi-skimmed works just as well as it's not the fat it's the fact that milk is alcaline that breaks down the acid (so the theory goes). I was unable to drink gaviscon liquid as it made me throw up. One other thing which helped was jersey icecream, well that was my excuce anyway, lol.

I was unable to eat certain foods after about lunchtime, cheese/anything with tomato in it, and a lovely chocolate and hazelnut cake I made.

thanks everyone! I am drinking loads of milk but it only seems to help while it's going down.
am seeing my midwife tomorrow and will see if i can get gaviscon on prescription as it's costing me a fortune! Will also give Remegel a go, Pucca, as Gaviscon also makes me retch. I agree WannaBe - tomato does seem to kick it off!

You can also take ranitidine. You can buy it over the counter as Zantac, or ask for a prescription. It saved my life as Gaviscon did not work for me this time round. Ranitidine is great and one table will last for 12 hours.

I was swigging gaviscon from the bottle during labour!
Heartburn went as soon as DD was born.
You have my utmost sympathy!

Had really bad heartburn through all my 3 pregnancies. Used the Gaviscon liquid which helped a little bit. This time I used a homeopathic remedy called 'Nux Vomica'. They sell it in Boots and are safe to take during pregnancy. Took a few days to start working. While I was taking these i only got heartburn I I ate spicy food or the usual triggers. In these cases I took the gaviscon cool tablets and they were much more effective in conjunction with the Nux Vomica.

OMG Gingerbear, I've just remembered having really bad heartburn, the one that makes you feel a bit sick, during my labour. I was given some pepermint stuff. Disgusting. God, I had totaly forgotten about that.