Nausea

Hello everybody!

Today I was going to write an article on UTI’s because I went out with a friend last night who was struggling with it. However, also last night I was up ALL night because I was nauseous and I think that might just be the worst feeling ever. SO Nausea won and I’ll do UTI another day.  I know that there is a very common well known alternative remedy for Nausea…Ginger. But that isn’t what I am going to talk about for a few reasons. Well first most people’s go to is Ginger ale…. I hate Soda, and its not a healthy solution so I am not going to promote it. Ginger is great if you want to use it as a spice or get an actual ginger root and use that… but most people don’t. I’d also like to point out that if you didn’t know Ginger helped Nausea, you do now! But I am going to talk about two other remedies that I find useful instead.

I was never really a drinker, so I didn’t really get the hangover nausea. When I got pregnant is when I learned about real Nausea. I say real because every kid throws up atleast once during there childhood. Or they  eat something funky, like chocolate chip pancakes that are actually plain pancakes… yup I did that.. Mold doesn’t taste good!  Then you get a belly ache which is Nausea I guess. But it’s nothing compared to how I have heard a hangover described and I know for a fact it’s got nothing on the all day every day nausea for 4 months during pregnancy.  So I had to find other options to help the misery.

Essential Oils is where I turned, but I used them in a different way. You don’t need to go out and spend 15-45 dollars on a tiny bottle of essential oil to ease your nausea. You can get the same effect for way cheaper and without the actual oil. The first one is peppermint essential oil. I used candy canes at first. Just suck on them, really it’s a miracle. Then I bought a peppermint plant from home depot or lowes, I cant remember which one. I used the peppermint leaves to make peppermint sun tea. So good, and it eased my nausea!

The Second option, because maybe you hate peppermints AND don’t drink soda, is Lemon essential oil. Again don’t go buy lemon essential oil, its not necessary….they get that stuff from lemons, the 50 cent lemons in the grocery store. Yes they will work. Scratch and sniff the peel just like those stickers from when I was a kid, or just cut it up and inhale a lot while you cut! Put the sliced lemons in anything you are drinking, or suck the juice from the lemon if you like sour! However you chose doesn’t matter as long as you can smell the lemony niceness and feel better!

Hope this helps! Lots of Love

xoxo

Mrs. Farminsteadical