My nausea is morphing. Yes, let’s go Power Rangers just started playing in my head, you’re welcome. If you read my earlier post, you’ll know my nausea was steadily getting worse. It was like a long, but subtle thing. Present but not overwhelming, and it stuck around until about an hour after lunch. Well now it hits in the morning, then goes away right after I eat breakfast, and then returns like a wave about an hour after I eat breakfast. Then it subsides into something more dull until I eat lunch. Then lurches its head about an hour after I finish that. Then it usually dies completely just before dinner and I get really hungry. Though for the first time this weekend, I absolutely could not eat something, not because of nausea, my body just would not consume some rice and veggies. So I looked up some nausea remedies.
Ginger Beer
So how am I coping with this nausea? I lived in Australia for a year, and one thing I discovered was ginger beer. It is now widely available in the states. We purchase it from Costco. Though there do not seem to be as many consumers here as there are for ginger ale. Ginger famously is meant to help stomach aches, and it certainly works for me. My spouse swore by it when we went back to Australia and his car sickness could not handle driving on the left hand side of the road.
Like I said, now we are buying Bundaberg in a Costco sized pack! We have tried other brands as well. Goslings, and Cock and Bull are ok too, with the latter being my favorite. Just be sure to look at the sugar count. Sometimes the manufacturer puts in way to much sugar to, I guess, cover up the taste of ginger? Why you would buy ginger beer without actually wanting the taste of ginger I am not sure. One bottle of Bundaberg for instance has 40g of added sugars, that’s 80% of an average daily value! This is why I like cock and bull better, but they don’t sell that in a 24 pack at Costco…
If you can’t find ginger beer, ginger ale can help too. The quantity of ginger is just not as high. I will say that on road trips with visits to gas stations, I can never find ginger beer but I can almost always find ginger ale. We bought some ginger beer when we were visiting family for the holidays, and I left it there, along with a book I had almost finished. But as of today, I am back on the stuff.
More Ginger
I read a recipe that said ginger tea would help. It gave the following recipe:
Ingredients:
1 tbsp ground ginger
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
1 tbsp honey
Instructions:
Steep the ground ginger in boiling water for 1 minute. Add the lemon and honey and stir. Enjoy warm.
I have a couple thoughts about this, though I haven’t tried the recipe yet. First, grinding ginger takes a lot of work, and I don’t think it needs to be that small to get flavor from steeping in boiling water. So I would probably just cut a few slices and not even peel the root first, because you aren’t going to be eating it. Then you could probably just fish out the pieces with a slotted spoon when they are done steeping.
Second, it actually takes a whole lemon to create 1 tbsp of juice. So unless you are going to buy a lemon every time you get nauseous, I would either just add a slice to the tea cup, which I think looks fun anyway, or I would just buy the pre-juiced stuff. But like I said I haven’t tried this yet, though I’m sure it works fine.
Tums
Y’all I feel pretty dumb. I guess because other standard medications, like Advil, are a no no, I assumed Tums was in that category too. And I found a week by week to do list that included researching antacids. So I figured it must be hard to find some that are ok for pregnant people.
No. Nope. Uh uh. Tums are fine, and safe, and they can even add to the calcium your baby needs for strong healthy bones and stuff. A friend just relayed to me that she took them like candy because she craved spicy things. So yeah, I feel like an idiot. Why wouldn’t I just have taken Tums?! And why is researching antacids a thing on this to do list? Like, it took me two fucking seconds to find the answer. I literally typed in pregnancy antacids and the first three results were like Tums dumbass. Ok they didn’t say dumbass, but they might as well have.
So I like ginger beer, and because we just bought the Costco sized pack I guess I better keep drinking it! And because I want you, dear reader, to know if the tea works, I will try that too. But you know what I am going to do about my nausea after that? Huh? I’M GOING TO TAKE A GODDAMN TUMS, THAT’S WHAT!
What about you, were you a smarty and figured out Tums were ok right away? Do you hate the taste of ginger and prefer to douse yourself in sugar when you consume ginger beer as a result? Let us know in the comments!