Gastritis help!!

Hi Philly! I'm up! Hopefully I can try to help a bit.

Have you tried ginger lozenges? Ginger helps me with nausea a lot, compazine makes me dizzy/so tired I can hardly keep my head up and zofran is the Latin word for no bowel movement, so I like alternatives if I can. They also make ginger capsules in the supplement aisle. I took these during AC chemo and they worked!

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Boost or ensure drinks till your appetite returns to give you some energy along with the saltines.

I also highly recommend a mint medley tea, something with peppermint and spearmint in it. The aroma might help with the nausea and the tea might calm your tummy. If you have chicken noodle soup, just drinking the broth might help too until you feel like eating the rest. I hope you feel better soon and I hope some of this helped!

Do you think you could handle a popsicle? Something that is soothing but still has calories? I think over in the general Mel's Living Room thread someone mentioned chemo popsicles whereby its whizzed up tofu and berries and then frozen.

Is it the frustration of wanting to eat and being hungry but the nausea? Or just nausea in general?

Hi Philly,

I am not a physician, but my sister is, and she suggested a couple of things:

1. Thin/runny vegetable based purees (potatoes would be especially good). Have a couple spoons, wait a bit, if you feel fine have a couple more.

2. No liquids with meat boiled in them (so no chicken broth) and no liquids with lots of sugar. Those are apparently irritating when your stomach lining is inflamed. Essentially nothing too concentrated. This is different from recommendations for people who lack appetite or have nausea from other causes.

3. A warm water bottle or something similar on your stomach to ease the spasm component (stomach irritation can result in a spasm, and the spasm might take a little while to "let go").

4. Milk (sweet milk, not fermented). Perhaps with the saltines. Again, small sips with pauses.

5. Sit up at least 90 minutes after eating.

She thinks you should start feeling better in a day or so. I hope you do.

So glad you're feeling better! Hopefully it's smooth sailing from here on.

Sorry about the confusion - sweet milk is just regular milk and fermented (or "sour") milk is anything like kefir or buttermilk. Even though I've lived in the US for over twenty years, I'm not a native English speaker - I think there still are certain words/expressions that I translate from my native language, occasionally with confusing results.