What helped your sickness/nausea

[Lijay]

I'm suffering with hyperemesis which is kind of manageable on medication (still feel sick all day but physically being sick has reduced) but Im really struggling with what to eat and really specifically drink!

Water tastes disgusting to me now, squash makes me feel ill. I crave fizzy drinks but don't want to have constant sugar all day. Oh hot drinks are an absolute no as well. Please inspire me.

Any small lunch/dinners as well? I'm stuck on crackers and Philadelphia/ dry cereal.

• don't let yourself get hungry. Biscuits (rich tea) by the bed. Low blood sugar can make it worse
• stodgy carbs if you can stomach them
• chewing gum - minty.
• tangy sweets

Realise that's not meals but they helped me (a bit)

I was same scrambled eggs and toast food wise

and orange tango seems to be working for me witch is strange as I never drank it before

Granny Smith apples really helped me. I was basically nibbling on one constantly.

Raisins helped keep my blood sugar up a bit without actually have to eat that much. I'd start off forcing them down one at a time but then I'd perk up a bit.

Salt and vinegar crisps helped with the horrible taste in my mouth that only worsened my general nausea.

I had some oat cracker things that were cheese flavoured (tasted like mini cheddars) which were quite good.

Meal-wise I ate whatever I fancied, and that changed every few days. So for a few days I'd want jacket potatoes with cheese and butter, but then the very thought would turn my stomach. Home made chicken fried rice was quite good. But I just went with whatever I sort of felt like I wanted that day.

Are you taking vitamin B6? That can help. And I also read research that protein is good, so I tried to make sure I was having enough. But I've no idea whether it helped.

I managed toast with butter and salt and vinegar crisps; when I felt a little better, I liked milkshakes and hot chips. I ate very little at first. Sniffing a fresh lemon sometimes helped. Oddly, I hated tap water too but could drink bottled water, Worth a try?

Oh and for drinks, ice cold water. I would fill the glass with ice (basically a whole ice cube tray), then top up with water. We had about 4 ice cube trays on rotation in the freezer so I could always have fully frozen ones.

Ice, ice and ice! I also used to crush up digestive biscuits and have a spoonful of the biscuit dust 🤷🏻‍♀️

I also craved fizz, how about sparkling water or slim line tonic water?

Also had HG and was just very nauseous with meds.
On my very worst nights an ice pop could help distract me for as long as it took me to eat it...
Plain mashed potato with gravy to dip into ...
Also pink lady apples!

Get some of those bands to wear on wrists with a ball that presses on a special point that helps with sickness, be it travel or pregnancy. Totally safe and it works. Make sure they are worn in the right way.

Soda water and lime when my HE was bad. Occasionally Diet Coke as well. To eat, beige food - jacket potatoes and toast. The only thing that relieved my sickness was giving birth, I vomited from the week before I peed on a stick all the way to 37+3 when I had my daughter xx

Ice cubes
Fizzy water
Sherbet

Fizzy drinks (sugar free) pear drops and mini cheddars were what I existed off for months and months - couldn’t eat either of those now! Severe nausea from wk 5 until after she was born - only realised on the way to DDs 5day check that I didn’t feel sick! Lost 2st and alteady slim to start with 🤦🏼‍♀️ midwife ended up charting my weight and did become underweight by end of 1st trimester 🫣

Recommend hydralite hydration tablets to add to ice cold water for some flavour, electrolytes etc

I'm surviving off

Weetabix
Toast with avocado
Haribo Tangfastics
Pink lady apples and peanut butter
Ramen noodles in broth
Almonds and raisins

Very plain food. Tiny portions. Never let my stomach growl.

Carbs

Flavoured fizzy waters. Lemonade (I actually feel like proper fizzy drinks with sugar help much more than sugar free).

Food wise I’ve been relatively lucky in that I’ve been able to eat a mostly normal diet, but when I’ve had really bad days I’ve survived on:

• chopped up apples
• grapes
• alpro mini yoghurts (I’m non dairy but I assume normal yoghurt would also work?)
• potato based snacks eg chips, hash browns, potato wedges
• baked beans
• strong flavoured crisps like McCoys

Genuinely just take in whatever you can - don’t worry too much about how nutritionally valuable it is. Of course we’d all love super healthy pregnancy diets, but if you can’t keep that healthy snack down, it’s better to have something crap that you can stomach (my sister had one really bad few days where she could only eat mints, and her children are perfectly fine).

Have whatever you can stomach! My first pregnancy I drank nothing but full sugar pepsi for 3 months straight, it was the only thing I could keep down and not gag whilst drinking. DS is an almost 4 year old now whose blood is made from blood and not pepsi 😂

I'm 13 weeks on my 2nd HG pregnancy now and the last few days all I've been able to stomach is fresh orange juice. Again full of sugar 🙈 and funnily I haven't been able to drink orange juice since my 1st pregnancy as it had completely put me off yet I woke up the other day and it was the only thing I fancied.

Food wise I try to eat as normal as I can. I find if I live off crackers it actually makes me more nauseous and more sick and doesn't help with the taste in my mouth. I actually prefer the stronger tastes like salt & vinegar crisps, monster munch, fajitas, chicken curry, it helps disguise the taste in my mouth whilst eating.

Thank you so much for the replies they are all really helpful.
I won't worry too much about drinking fizzy drinks then. They do really help pep me up for a bit but I'll also try ice cold water/bottled water and sparkling water. I think sparkling water with ice might actually be a win!

Funny enough I also find a food I can eat for a few days and then go completely the other way with it and it makes me feel worse suddenly. I didn't have this with DS so it's all new and working out how to manage it I guess. Thank you everyone again 💛

I had similar. The actual amount I was sick was controlled by medication but I still felt nauseous throughout the whole pregnancy.

Apples were the thing saved me. I ate so many and I'm not even an apple lover. Orange juice to drink too but obviously not good for your teeth. Must have been the sweetness.

Best of luck with the rest of your pregnancy 🙂. The sickness left immediately after I gave birth. I ate a loaf of breads worth of toast afterwards and it was glorious

I think I need to get some apples. I feel like I'd be alright with them. At least it's some goodness in my diet as well.

Preparing my toddlers food is also not easy 🤣 his favourite dinner is shepherds pie but wow- the smell 🤢🤢 the mince 🤢🤢