Terrible acid

[2catsand1rabbit]

I'm only 16 weeks but I've started getting terrible acid. Is there anything I can take? I'd rather try natural remedies, does milk work? Help!!

Hi there! Horrible isn't it! According to my mum milk works, I had massive bottles of gaviscon on prescription. Try sleeping with an extra pillow and sipping ice cold water. Avoid anything spicy. Horror or horrors even chocolate gave me heartburn by the end of my pregnancy! Hope it gets better!

magnum whites are the way forward for ALL ills

milk works up to a point then im afraid its gaviscon (urgh). as already said avoid spicy food, fizzy drinks,and yes chocolate! try eating little and ofter rather than big meals. when you go to bed try to sleep sitting up slightly.
i had dreadful heartburn all through my pregnancy and by the end was drinking gaviscon straight from the bottle - lovely!

Gaviscon is obviously okay for pregnancy?

the doctor told me its the only one you should take, the amount i drank im surprised dd didnt come out gaviscon flavoured!

yes gaviscon is fine and remember you get it free on prescription being pregnant

bicarbonate of soda stirred into a little water. all sparkly. makes you do sparkly burps and the heartburn is gone.

I didn't get gaviscon on presciption I got this foul stuff that was WORSE than gaviscon, imagine what emulsion paint would taste like this stuff was it.

Apparently you can take Zantac (ranitidine) when pregnant but get it prescribed by a GP.

Not to worry you, but I still get really bad indigestion, and DS is 15 months old (and no, I'm not pregnant again). Never had it before I got pregnant!

I thought you didn't get acid until the last trimester! I'm only 16 weeks. Don't think I suit being pregnant. Haven't had a day when I've felt myself.

It might pass and then come back again - I got it early, then disappeared for a few months in the middle, then came back towards the end. I like Gaviscon tablets, can't drink the liquid version.

Thanks everyone. I'm off to bed now!

Gaviscon liquid was the only thing that worked for me. I kept an industrial-sized bottle by the bed.

I usually end up on Zantac on prescription by the 3rd trimester.

Right now am on about my 4th massive bottle of Gaviscon.

I drak 4 pints of milk per day and put camp coffee in the milk (I do not like milk) and this cured it for me.

I have been told milk doesn't work and that it does work - so I suspect it works for some and not for others.

My babies had lots of hair apparently old wives tale if you have bad acid you get babies with lots of hair..

i had terrible acid reflux with both my girls.

one had loads of hair and the other was a baldy.

Did the first baby have lots of hair expat?

Mine both had a full head of hair.

the first one did, yes, the other was bald as a coot and i had just as much reflux with her as with the first.

Mint tea helps. Milk works too.

That expalins it expat

ltra - did you get bad acid though to get the full head of hair?

explains what, though, ivy?

i had just as bad acid with both, but one was bald. so it can't be true that having bad acid means the baby will have lots of hair.

it just means that that valve between your stomach and oesophagus has gone much more lax because of the hormone relaxin circulating in the pregnant body, so acid is able to escape from the stomach into the oesophagus.

I have bad acid three times and two baldies (last one not out yet).

I have a theory that dark haired babies have more hair and baldies are blondes.

Yes, Ivy, terrible heartburn. but I think the two things are unrelated, as Expat says.

I think it is an old wives tale, must agree though with sweety that baldies are often blonde - my two dd's were both very dark (although one is not very blonde naturaly) I was blonde and it looked as if I had no hair!!