indigestion

eat small light meals, as when you are heavily pregnant food leaves the stomach very slowly. Eat sitting upright and don't be tempted to lounge around after eating food...sitting upright for as long as possible after your meal.
Soda water might not help as it may cause distention of the stomach with trapped bubbles in the drink.
The advice from Kate is spot on too.
 
Another tip I was given is that when you lie down, lie on your left side.
That helps the acid stay in your stomach, where it should stay, just with the help of gravity.
This will make sense to you if you are aware of the shape and position of the stomach in the body.
 
Like MargaretR I use bicarbonate of soda.

If you have nothing in at all, sipping boiled water seems to work too.
 
There are many over the counter, and prescribed drug, remedies for excess acid.
All are described as harmless.........but some aren't.
Acid in the stomach is there for a reason - to aid digestion. When it becomes excessive and causes discomfort we look on it as something to be curbed/limited/reduced/restricted.
There are potential risks to doing so.
I have a hiatus hernia whereby the valve between my stomach and the food pipe from my throat is faulty. This means that acid has more opportunity to leak up from the stomach and cause heartburn and inflammation.

My docs 1st reponse was to prescribe Losec which lessens your capacity to produce acid. When this gave me headaches he switched me to Zantac (generic name Ranitidine).

I know people who have been so prescribed who take these daily for years, to prevent heartburn, whether they actually experience heartburn or not. Therein lies the danger

Stomach acid is an essential part of the process by which we extract vitamins from the food we eat. To restrict that extraction process results in a slow insidious decline in health.....................it is just one of the factors which has caused my current health problem


PS some over the counter remedies contain aluminium which is toxic to the brain - always read the label
 
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emamum said:
the doctor gave me ranitidine as well, im not taking them
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The midwife will give you that when you go into labour.

I have seen this for sale in B & M I think it was, it does work, although I did only take it during labour and the rest of the time I just took rennies and put up with it lol
 
emamum said:
the doctor gave me ranitidine as well, im not taking them
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As a brief short term solution to a problem, you wont suffer harm - it is prolonged use which causes the damage.

If your heartburn/acid problem is as bad as it sounds you DO need to prevent the risk of your food pipe becoming inflamed.
 
the ranitidine was because i am throwing up from it, im supposed to take one before i go to bed, i really dont want to take anything thats not really important, im trying a bit of everything to try and avoid the tablets lol
 
emamum said:
the ranitidine was because i am throwing up from it, im supposed to take one before i go to bed, i really dont want to take anything thats not really important, im trying a bit of everything to try and avoid the tablets lol
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Curbing the acid for the short time left before the birth wont harm you
Violent retching could - so consider using them please
 
i know pastry give my bro indigestion, if you eat a lot of pastries try keeping off them
 
My friend at work is 26 wks, she has found that eating sherbet dips cures her indigestion, if mine carries on I'll have to give one a go.
 
emamum said:
anyone know of anything that actually works?

milk and bread doesnt help, gaviscon doesnt last long and its getting really bad now and stopping me from sleeping :(

no matter what i eat ive still got it

and yeah i know having a baby will probably get rid of it, before anyone (probably Neil) says that :p
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Milk and bread ... think that will make it worse: bicarbe or just soda water is good:
 
I used to always have indigestion. When I changed my eating habits and cut out all the KFC, curry, chinese (all the good stuff!!!) I never seem to have it anymore. Its amazing and I used to be really bad, rennie, gaviscon, etc etc
 
Kramer said:
I used to always have indigestion. When I changed my eating habits and cut out all the KFC, curry, chinese (all the good stuff!!!) I never seem to have it anymore. Its amazing and I used to be really bad, rennie, gaviscon, etc etc
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lol, thats not why i have it, my diets really good :D
 
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