If alcohol caused the nausea, don’t drink any more alcohol. Hair of the Dog is complete nonsense, by the way.
Since you can’t “cure” pregnancy or many of the other causes of nausea, here are a few things you can do to try reducing this miserable feeling.
Pregnant women should be very careful about taking any type of medication or dietary supplement to control nausea and vomiting. It’s very hard to test medications during pregnancy since the effects could be permanent and devastating. Because of that, little evidence exists to show how safe certain medications are for pregnancy and even less evidence exists for dietary supplements, a category that doesn’t have the greatest track record for research anyway.
Food poisoning causes vomiting for a reason. It is the body’s way of emptying the stomach of the offending bacteria. For the first 24 hours at least, vomiting from food poisoning should just happen. Your body knows when it really needs to expel nasty stuff from your gut and, when it does, anti-emetics aren’t going to help much.
If vomiting doesn’t stop after 24 hours, victims of food poisoning may need to see a healthcare provider. Too much uncontrolled vomiting can lead to dehydration.
Just like dietary supplements, medications aren’t always safe for use during pregnancy. Like I said before, it’s very hard to test medications on a pregnant woman because failure can be absolutely devastating.
For the rest of us, going to the healthcare provider should be the last resort, but there are some important triggers:
Signs of dehydration, fatigue or confusion deserve a trip to the healthcare provider’s office. If you are sick enough to have any of these, you shouldn’t wait any longer. Vomiting blood Extreme vertigo (dizziness) that won’t go away
If you can’t make the nausea go away and it is affecting your daily life, seeing your healthcare provider is the next logical step.
