Feeling sick what can I eat or drink to ease it

[Pinkypoos86]

Im 6 weeks pregnant and boy the sickness isnt nice. I’ve tried fizzy pop and gargle mouthwash. Any other suggestions or tips.

Call the GP for meds!
What you fancy when you fancy.
With my daughter I lived off tinned peaches.
With my second pregnancy I was ok with fluids and couldn't tolerate food. I lived off cherry tomatoes, celery and smoothies.
Third pregnancy food was ok but couldn't tolerate any liquids at all so just lived off toast.
Each time i started higher up the medication protocols. The first line of treatment might not work so keep going back if you need and accept a sick note if you need.

I had HG. It is truly awful.
just eat what you can when you can and try to keep drinking. A fairly gross yet helpful tip is try to eat things that aren’t too bad to throw back up so nothing too harsh/spicy/sour

Ginger - I have used ginger biscuits, crystallised ginger, ginger marmalade and lemon and ginger tea - they all helped.

I found fizzy pop helped and wotsits too. Im down to try anything else

I used to find eating first thing in the morning before sitting up helped- a ginger biscuit or breadstick or similar, and then having small nibbles throughout the day. If its beyond nausea and affecting you for a prolonged period speak to the GP as it could be HG (hopefully not though, lots of people have sickness that passes).

B6 tablets 3 x day

Meds are amazing when you need them.
Foods I tolerated were anything crunchy like crackers, toast, dry cereal, overdone skinny chips, even well roasted potatoes. Weird, and entirely lacking in nutrients, but worked😅

Ritz crackers were my saviour!

Ginger biscuits and salt and vinegar Pringles.

I found licking a cut lemon slice often cleared the nausea.

I had HG, it was grim. Ginger biscuits are meant to help but I didn't find that they did. Being hungry makes it worse so try to have something (like a rich tea biscuit) the moment you wake up.

A tip I had on here was that a completely plain McDonalds hamburger would work and astonishingly it did, so you could try that.

Dry crackers helped at points.
When you are hungry just eat literally anything you feel like you can manage.
I liked very strong flavours, like salt and vinegar crisps, or aniseed sweets, sour sweets.
I also found mashed/baked potato pretty good.

I used to have homemade mashed potato with some salt and pepper and a tiny bit of butter. I ate that for dinner for a good few weeks with DC2. I felt permanently seasick but this always managed to stay down and was something “solid” on my stomach.

Fizzy water with a slice of lemon worked well for me. Just eat what you feel like eating.

And ginger ale
In fact ginger in anything is good preferably raw ginger
Add to stir fry’s

I think this was why I favoured fruit and veg anything that tasted the same coming up as when I ate it was out as eating it made me heave.

Ginger anything is good when your ill 😊 or toast if you can keep it down

Nibbles of crisps especially salt and vinegar.

Jelly is quite good to eat in the sense that it’s not that bad on the way back iyswim.

Is HG just vomiting constantly or can it be constant serve neasua?

I've been suffering bad bad travel sickness on the verge of vomiting 24/7! (Not actually vomiting) I'm even waking through the night with it! I've got those seas bands on l. I've tried every trick in the book!! Only time I get some relief is as soon as I eat somthing but that lasts about 10 mins and then I'm floored again with it. I was 100% not this bad with my son. I'm 7 weeks, would the Dr prescribe me somthing or is it not bad enough? Because to me I feel awful and it's impacting me when I'm in work now xx

There is a criteria for HG but you can get medication from the GP for sickness or nausea that's debilitating and impeding daily activity even if it's under the threshold for HG. I wouldn't get caught up with the is it HG? @Jadeypie
It sounds like you are struggling a lot and I'd be giving the gp a call in the morning.

Just want to reply that I got this second time around too! I was never actually sick but felt seasick constantly and often gagged and dry heaved at the smell of food. It really did start to ease from 12 weeks and by 16 weeks was gone completely. But I 100% sympathise with how horrible it is, and also how shocking it is to have it worse second time around. I’d definitely go to your GP if you think you could do with some extra help, especially as it is different to your experience first time around.

@Superscientist thank you for your reply, I'm not trying to self diagnose with HG just Genuine curiosity What it actually is. I've already planned to see my gp tomorrow was just asking if they would help or fob me off because it is a normal pg symtom (I just didn't realise how bad it can be) this will be my 4th pregnancy x

My midwife said that part of makes you feel sick in the morning is your low blood sugar, as you won’t have been eating over night.

She recommended leaving literally anything you can tolerate (biscuit, bread stick etc) and a water by your bed. Then eating it before getting out of bed. It seemed to help a bit.

But the mains message is putting off eating can make the nausea worse.

@MummyJ36 thank you!!! Nice to hear yours lifted. I feel like I'm in shock haha it's so different this time round. I remember with my son I had morning sickness but would be odd moments throughout the day, not like this though. I just wasn't sure if the gp would help because I'm not actually vomiting also I'm not really like run to the drs type of person, I try to tough it out but suppose I shall see tomorrow. Thank you again xx

Plain yoghurt.
Plain crackers.
Don't let yourself get either too hungry or too full.
Sip cups of tea. Or cup a soups.
Anything you can stomach that you fancy. Walk around the supermarket and see what catches your eye as you may be drawn to specific things and old favourites may make you heave!
Smell citrus smells.