Celestial Seasonings brand Sleepytime Tea is full of things that soothe the stomach and other innards. It WILL make you sleepy, though, which might or might not be a good thing.
It’s the syrup that flavors the coke. In the south, back in the day, they used to to sell coke syrup in bottles (just the sticky sweet syrup, no carbonation) in pharmacies.
Worked like a charm IIRC.
Some pharmacies still carry small bottles of Coke syrup. Ask your pharmacist.
I am drinking a Coke right this very minute, to settle heartburn I’ve had all afternoon. I probably need to lay off the ibuprofen. For me, the fizziness plus the Coke flavoring seems to do the trick. Not only for heartburn, but even the whoopsies of carsickness.
~VOW
My grandmother’s remedy was always peppermint tea with either just a touch of honey or no sweetening. The other grandmother used coke syrup or baking soda dissolved in warm water.
Ginger root is the only surefire cure for my nausea (I’ve had migraines and headaches with nausea for over 20 years now, I can also get nauseous when I’m hungry). I eat it candied, usually.
The BRAT diet…Bananas, Rice, Applesauce, Toast…
also ginger ale…and flat 7 up…
This is exactly what I came in to post, including the addition of ginger ale. I’ll also throw saltines on there.
If you haven’t been eating much and you feel nausea to the point where vomiting is inevitable, take a glass of water with you (room temp is best) and chug it. This will give you something to vomit up and prevent those painful dry heaves. I suggest doing this IN the bathroom because it can trigger the vomiting quite quickly if you’re right on the edge.
I try to never vomit on an empty stomach. Dry heaves are the WORST. Drink a half a glass of water–or as much as you can stand to drink–and then throw that up. And the upside is if you don’t throw up after all, you’re hydrating yourself, which is good for you too.
Alka-Seltzer did the job for me this morning. I had six glasses of Jack Daniels on the rocks last night and woke up around 7:00 this morning with a terrible stomach ache that wouldn’t let me fall back asleep. At least I wasn’t nauseated or vomiting.
Ginger. I keep ginger pills in the house - if nausea can be a side effect to something, I get it. If it’s to ‘I wish I would just hurl already and get it over with’ saltines or rice, with water or green or black tea. I find rice easier to get down and its not so dry, but ymmv. (I usually have some sort of plain rice in the freezer anyway.) If you need to settle your stomach really fast, but its not ‘I’m going to hurl’ a glass of milk, then eat something.
Thirding the BRAT diet.
I can’t do soda. It’s too sweet. The one time Mom tried to give me flat soda (I think we were all getting the flu), as I recall, it made me throw up.
Ginger comes in pills? I’ll have to look this up. I never realized it had a therapeutic purpose. It makes sense that it does… I mean things like garlic do, why not ginger? I wonder if ginger tea (made by steeping chopped ginger in hot water and then straining it out, not using tea bags or anything) would have the same effect?
Any ginger will help with nausea (OLD remedy - going back to wherever ginger was first native to). I find ginger pills convenient - I don’t often like the taste of ginger, but in the summer I like ginger lemonade, and I often sprinkle powdered ginger, with other things, on top of rice when I’m feeling icky.
The pills should be easy to find. I’ve gotten mine at Rite Aid, Target, etc.
Cool, good to know. Thanks
Ginger also comes in gum. If you really think you can’t keep anything down at all, chew some ginger gum.
I had a migraine for 10+ days and spent most of the day Monday eating tiny chips of crystallized ginger. Fortunately I was able to keep it down (and was able to get an appointment with the neurologist on Tuesday). But if I had had any ginger gum on hand, that would have been my first choice. I’ve bought it in the baby-supply section of a drugstore before (not that babies chew gum, but that’s where it was).
Mary Ann.