Nausea Remedies | Tips To Ease Nausea During Pregnancy

Usually we are at our freshest best in the morning. But the case with pregnant women is exactly the opposite. Especially in the first half of pregnancy, women feel nauseated and sick and often throw up too. There is no real explanation for this except for hormonal changes. And it’s wrong to think that there is no cure for morning sickness or nausea through the day.

Tips To Relieve Pregnancy Nausea

Follow some easy tips to get through a pregnancy with relative ease.

• Don’t get out of bed immediately after you wake up because nausea is triggered by a sudden change from horizontal to vertical position.


• You can eat a whole wheat cracker or some such light snack, while still in bed.


• To beat nausea through the day, eat a little food every two or three hours even if don’t feel hungry.


• You can nibble on a few potato chips, rusks, crackers or toasted bread.


• Consume ample amount of liquids, like 10 to 12 glasses of water, fruit juice or herbal tea. Citrus fruits are a good cure for nausea, so adding a slice of lemon to the water or herbal tea will tackle nausea.


• Eat melons, carrots, grapes, apples, pears and such fruits that have high water content. This will prevent dehydration and constipation.


• Ginger is known to reduce nausea because of the chemicals gingerols and shogaols that calm down the intestinal tract, ridding one of nausea and vomiting. You can have ginger tea, pure ginger ale or ginger tablets. But, there are many health care practitioners who are skeptical about the use of ginger; so it would be best if you consulted your doctor first.

Apart from these, take a few precautions to ease nausea during pregnancy.

• Getting some rest through your day, lying down with a pillow under your head and legs will relieve nausea.


• Avoid jerky movements and move about slowly. Sit down after meals so that gravity can keep the food in your stomach and avoid nausea.


• The sense of smell is heightened during pregnancy. So smells that usually don’t bother may make a pregnant woman throw up. Smells that make you feel sick should be avoided.


• You can also smell a sliced lemon or lavender, which is known to please the olfactory sense.


• Before sleeping at night and if you wake up later, having a snack such like sandwich, curd, bread or milk as this will reduce the nausea in the morning.

Follow all these and it will not only make you feel a lot less nauseous but also will be good for your baby.