After a visit to urgent care and a dose of prescription anti-nausea meds, for the first time in days I no longer feel like my abdomen has been used as a punching bag.
Tentatively reintroducing regular meals to my routine, but trying to ease into it. Find myself staring into the pantry trying to decide what would be the best recovery fuel.
Anyone willing to share their go-to foods for when they are not feeling well?
Chicken noodle soup is my favorite, especially when we have homemade broth in the house (canned/boxed stuff works too, though). I like to add a squeeze of lime juice and cilantro for a change. I'm usually really light on the meat (or sometimes omit entirely), and really go with what I'm feeling up for with veggies and noodles or rice.
Feel better soon!
Tater tots and ginger ale are my miracle drugs.
Egg noddles with butter.
Ben & Jerry's
Soda crackers and any light fizzy soda for queasy tummies are good (the crackers use baking soda, a base, for rising, and the CO2 in the soda helps balance an acidic stomach as well...I always keep some in the house.)
Lately, I've discovered raw spinach also settles my tummy, which has gotten more crotchety, lately, too.
If acid-base balance is less of an issue, cheese toast or cheese on crackers is my go-to. (Interthreadulity)
Glad you're feeling more like eating!
M.
Quote from: ohnoes on November 19, 2020, 07:18:06 AM
Tater tots and ginger ale are my miracle drugs.
Tater tots are my go to comfort food. SO scoffs at tater tots, but since they are cheap doesn't argue (just gives me an amused side-eye when he find them in the freezer). Also soft batch chocolate chip cookies and Coke (childhood memories). If I really can't think of something, I tend to have eggs, toast, and fruit, but I realize that eggs may not be good for some stomach issues.
Lima beans.
I agree with chicken noodle soup and ginger ale and soda crackers as go-to foods when I am not feeling well. I migrate toward tomato-based soups (tomato soup; minestrone; pasta fagioli) as I start to recover, but a basic meat-based broth is the place to start. Soups are good comfort food, as they help with re-hydration as well as providing the basic nutrients you need.
Stomach issue foods:
Pasta with butter and parmesan
Buttered toast
Brothy soups with noodles (I'm vegetarian so veggie broth rather than chicken)
General comfort foods:
Mac and cheese
Hearty soups and chili
Grilled cheese
Ginger tea and apples, not at the same time.
Crackers or toast with butter and nutritional yeast. Apple sauce. Dry Rice Krispies/Special K.
I'm glad you're finally feeling some relief, SCR! :)
For me, when my tum is feeling icky, I go to:
ginger ale
buttered rice/noodles
applesauce/canned peaches
toast
clear broth soup
saltines
Things that are crunchy and salty.
Sometimes hot chocolate, in cold weather.
QuoteThings that are crunchy and salty.
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I deal with Meniere's disease. (an inner ear issue... AKA 'watchmaker's disease') It is a condition common now with female accountants. It mostly acts up when one is focusing on a narrow field of view (like a computer screen).
The issue is that when it acts up, you throw up, a lot. Every time you move, you throw up. With enough practice, you CAN throw up without moving!
Antivert is the prescription that works best, though Dramamine or Bonine are the OTC equivalents. (Valium helps too).
The relevant issue:
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have found that fresh baked cookies and chocolate milk are the best thing to eat IF one is nearing an episode of massive nausea.
(You can you the ready to bake ones... that what I get).
Why? Because milk and fresh baked cookies taste the least worst when they come back up!
(note that salty foods cause fluid retention which worsens the problems in the inner ear, and should therefore be avoided)
Avoid things that will cause any acid feeling, including peanut butter (and recees cups)
ON a cruise, the advice from a Crab Fisherman was to eat apples. Same as the cookies... if/when it comes back it is closer to apple sauce, so not terrible.
Dry Cheerios, with small sips of water or weak tea. I can eat a few at a time, pause, eat a few more. I may take an hour to consume a cup of Cheerios and 3-4 oz of water. After I'm comfortable that I can tolerate dry cereal and water, I try noodles in broth or cinnamon toast with minimal butter and sugar. Microwave popcorn also works.
Starting with small amounts of something plain works for me.
Eggos with a tiny bit of butter and a little maple syrup.
No suggestions, but your user name is the best!
Thanks, all!
I made a grocery list based on suggestions here.
clean, thanks for bringing up the importance of considering which foods will be the least unpleasant to lose. I have a habit of downing as much water as I can when I feel nausea coming on, in the hopes of diluting the acid and reducing the throat burn. Never tried chocolate chip cookies. That sounds even better.
Potatoes. Boiled, mashed, fried, roasted.
Mashed potatoes with veggie gravy. Maybe with some peas or some other green veg.
Eggs. Fried, boiled, poached.
And of course: potatoes and eggs.
Quote from: downer on November 20, 2020, 04:52:51 AM
Potatoes. Boiled, mashed, fried, roasted.
Oh yes! A friend of mine once called me "a potato-eating fool" when he saw me getting three spud-based sides at a meat-and-three meal.
I'll probably bake some this weekend.
For an upset stomach I go for ginger tea, saltines, chicken broth, and ginger ale.
General comfort foods?
pancakes, you can buy a "just add water" mix that is pretty darn good.
cheese, with or without sliced apples
buttered toast
English muffins
potatoes in all their forms: mashed, baked, fries, scalloped, etc.
chicken fingers
canned peaches
green peas
Ginger ale, tea, gatorade (especially if you are worried about the food coming back up - the extra stuff in gatorade might be helpful to replace some of the things you're losing).
For food:
Crackers, especially saltines, if my stomach doesn't feel good, though they aren't a general comfort food for me.
Mac and cheese, grilled cheese, any form of warm melted cheese.
Dumplings, especially soup dumplings. And/or Wanton soup.
Corn chowder
Quote from: nonsensical on November 20, 2020, 09:00:07 AM
Ginger ale, tea, gatorade (especially if you are worried about the food coming back up - the extra stuff in gatorade might be helpful to replace some of the things you're losing).
For food:
Crackers, especially saltines, if my stomach doesn't feel good, though they aren't a general comfort food for me.
Mac and cheese, grilled cheese, any form of warm melted cheese.
Dumplings, especially soup dumplings. And/or Wanton soup.
Part one is a must for me.
I would eat "Wanton" soup every day! Best typo ever!
Quote from: jimbogumbo on November 20, 2020, 03:15:08 PM
Quote from: nonsensical on November 20, 2020, 09:00:07 AM
Ginger ale, tea, gatorade (especially if you are worried about the food coming back up - the extra stuff in gatorade might be helpful to replace some of the things you're losing).
For food:
Crackers, especially saltines, if my stomach doesn't feel good, though they aren't a general comfort food for me.
Mac and cheese, grilled cheese, any form of warm melted cheese.
Dumplings, especially soup dumplings. And/or Wanton soup.
Part one is a must for me.
I would eat "Wanton" soup every day! Best typo ever!
It's probably just as well that you can't do that. It sounds like one of those things that's unhealthy if you have it too often.
Smallcleanrat, how are you? Manage to keep anything down?
Quote from: jimbogumbo on November 20, 2020, 03:15:08 PM
I would eat "Wanton" soup every day! Best typo ever!
Oops, sorry! But also glad to have provided some entertainment :)
bowl of rice is good. no sauces.
you can easily find ideas looking this up. as I did.
Stay away from beer, whiskey, pizza, gin, tequila
When our girls were young (and even til today, I just realized), we'd do the BRAT diet for upset tummies: bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast. That can evolve as you start to feel better--add some peanut butter and bananas on the toast, etc.
Kid #1 always keeps a bottle or two of Pedialyte in her fridge. She says it works better than Gatorade to get the electrolytes back up, fast.
Hope you're feeling better, SCR!
Thanks, everybody.
Had the easiest time with toast. Dry cheerios were also good. Helped with the hunger pangs.
Trying to get more protein through eggs and also trying fruits. For some reason, body was really resisting protein, but now it's a lot better.
Still extremely low energy, but it's still a big improvement to not be in that in that state of wanting to eat and not wanting to eat at the same time.
Obviously going to follow up with a doctor irl, but I'm curious if anyone else has had the experience of high blood sugar and elevated ketone levels without a history of diabetes. I'm not sure if that could be a cause or an effect of being sick. Or maybe it was just from not eating much for the week I had nausea.
Quote from: smallcleanrat on November 23, 2020, 12:26:03 PM
Thanks, everybody.
Had the easiest time with toast. Dry cheerios were also good. Helped with the hunger pangs.
Trying to get more protein through eggs and also trying fruits. For some reason, body was really resisting protein, but now it's a lot better.
Still extremely low energy, but it's still a big improvement to not be in that in that state of wanting to eat and not wanting to eat at the same time.
Obviously going to follow up with a doctor irl, but I'm curious if anyone else has had the experience of high blood sugar and elevated ketone levels without a history of diabetes. I'm not sure if that could be a cause or an effect of being sick. Or maybe it was just from not eating much for the week I had nausea.
I'm glad you're starting to feel a bit better. Don't push yourself too hard. No history here with high ketones.
Glad you're feeling a bit better. As you switch to more interesting food, you might put the leftover Cheerios in airtight container and save for next time. I may run out of bread for toast, but I always have dry cereal.
No experience with high blood sugar and high ketones.