One of the things that has been recommended for helping supress nausea (babies are fun!) is the eating of saltine crackers, so we went and tried to find us some. We ended up with two packages of "salty crackers". The labels had pictures of very saltine-y looking crackers. But not just plain old salty flavor - oh no - these ones have all sorts of flavors! We bought one vegtable and one onion flavored package. There was also a sesame option, but since Cara is not a particular fan of sesames, we didn't try that one. Here's the catch - the crackers were not salty! They were more like slighty flavored oyster crackers. It was very dissapointing to say the least. Luckily they came in packages of about 15 crackers as opposed to the box of 100 that we are use to.
It turns out that if you go to the right ex-pat stores, there is something that is sort of like a saltine but a little softer, not quite as salty, and ever so slightly sweet. We were told that the wheat flavor was the best one to try (we have not yet examined the other flavor options for that brand). So we are not completely out of luck, but who would have thought that saltines could be an exotic food?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
7 comments:
I think giant slightly flavored oyster crackers sound yummy.
There's some ginger based drinks that the fishing magazines say suppress nausea. I've chummed and I've checked into it, but never had the pleasure of trying it. I can attest to the fact that Dramamine and other "motion sickness" nausea suppressants will only stop it from getting worse, not actually make you better if you didn't take it beforehand.
Ginger definitely helps in settling your stomach and ginger tea can be really nice. I think the trick with saltines is their basic-ness.
A trick that helped me was to increase your intake of B6. Take it at night before going to bed.
Didn't know about it with Matthew, but it worked with Kayleigh.
xo
Kathy
The nice thing is that the nausea is really not all that bad and seems to be decreasing. One of the popular treatments here is to eat about a finger-tip worth of raw ginger. I've tried this, it is definitely an acquired taste.
Cara, My cousin used the non=drowzy Gravol that is made from Ginger and it really helped her. A friend of mine lived on instant mashed potatoes..it worked!
Louise
I take it from the 3+ days of no posting that the oyster crackers are not working eh?
So, I just found out that you can't ship saltines to a fpo box,, how sucky is that!
Post a Comment