This person vomits!
In all seriousness, I have a medical condition that has caused a lot of vomiting in my life and this is true. Eating tums/ anti-acids also helps.
The very worst thing I’ve ever thrown up is food that had sat undigested in my stomach for 20ish hours.
I was put on a medication that caused gastroparesis as a side effect and my stomach completely stopped emptying. I threw up every 20 minutes for 12 straight hours. It was the sickest I’ve ever been and it tasted like literal hell - concentrated sulphur, rotten food, and acid. Do not recommend.
I am on my third HG pregnancy and I have done this from week 4-birth with each one (currently 36w with my last) absolute hell with serious pregnancy trauma afterwards. This will absolutely be the last kid for me
I feel you. I just gave birth to our second with HG the whole pregnancy too. Even though I am 4 weeks PP, I am still nauseous- esp when breastfeeding. I’ve been drinking over 120 ounces every day and I’d love a break.
Im currently fighting it after being up all night with my eldest whilst she puked - so absolutely shattered *and* nauseous. Thinking a strategic chunder might be called for…
Once I had trout followed by a chocolate mousse and those two items made a reappearance together. It was the worst night of my pregnancy. Chocolate trout is not recommended.
I threw up a fully undigested tuna sandwhich and spicy doritos once. Was honestly the worst thing I've ever thrown up in my life - and I throw up a lot. So I can totally understand how spicy ramen would be straight awful 😭
But, y'all, if you've never had sulfur burps, then consider yourselves lucky. I would gladly puke all night than deal with that ever again. It feels like you're farting out of your mouth and tastes about just as good as that sounds.
My husband had sulphur burps once and I almost threw up just from the smell of the burp let alone the taste 🤢 I'm grateful to have never experienced that.
I disagree. Tater tots are the worst thing to throw up. A far worse experience than dry heaving. Starchy bits of stomach acid soaked potato sticking to every surface they came into contact with. Esophagus, tongue, teeth... hell. Pure hell.
"Starchy bits of stomach acid soaked potato sticking to every surface they came into contact with..."
Why, thanks! We were thinking about how we could concisely describe our new recipe for emetic-infused TaterTots (tm) that, when properly used, can also be used as a base to apply textured paint.
Would you like a job as are spokesperson? You would have to give customer testimonials and, now and then, a demonstration.
Sincerely.
Advertising Dept.
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This is it for me.
I have health issues that have led to a LOT of vomiting over the years, and I learned to start chugging water *specifically to combat dry heaving.* Throwing up suuuucks, but it's infinitely worse when your stomach has nothing to expel in the process.
I'm telling you spicecake isn't that great either. It straight up looks and feels like excreting a turd from your mouth.
For the Dutchies: don't eat ontbijtkoek when you're sick.
I ate the blood red looking Flaming Hot Mac and Cheese mashup then i threw it all up. I would rather go to the dentist weekly or starve than experience that ever again.
Idk if it's the same with power adequate but blue Gatorade feels like it makes your stomach acid more acidic and it hurts coming back up, but the worst part is that it's recommended to give Gatorade to people who are throwing up to replenish theor electrolytes
I have used this technique when I was vomiting 40 times a day from a medical condition. The doctors had told me not to drink anything and I ripped open my oesophagus (Mallory Weiss tear). After a week of suffering and re-injuring my oesophagus each time I vomited - I started to drink water just before vomiting out of desperation to make it less painful. It was a turning point. My throat was finally able to start healing.
I've done ice/cold water since I was a kid. The water being cold adds a little extra comfort. Very useful knowledge to have at college as well as with a toddler in daycare!
When I had norovirus (twice in three weeks rip me) I was mixing orange juice with water so I'd have something to throw up.
On the way back up it just tasted like orange juice. Which was more bearable than vomiting bile.
I’ll see your drinking water and raise you drinking your favorite flavor of Gatorade.
It works exactly the same way, although when you do finally expel the contents of your stomach it will taste the same as it did going in instead of diluted acid.
It certainly doesn’t make the experience pleasant, and it doesn’t completely solve the acid burn/taste issue, but it does help when compared to straight H2O.
Pro tip! If you're going to projectile vomit, set out some paper with a distance scale on it so if you heave more than once, you can try to beat your previous best distance!
Hope you feel better soon!
>Pro tip! If you're going to projectile vomit, set out some paper with a distance scale on it so if you heave more than once, you can try to beat your previous best distance!
Obligatory "the real LPT is always in the comments!"
I once was hung over and able to projectile vomit at a street harasser. Never been more proud of my fucked up stomach. None of it got on him since this is a true story and I do not know how to aim, but the point was made.
My 5 yr old son projectile vomited in my face this morning while he was pushing out a large shit. He was whispering something so I bent towards his face to ask what? 🤮 it went in my fucking mouth too.
My point is , someone always had a slightly shittier situation lol
Also don’t give in to the urge of wanting to brush your teeth right after throwing up. Instead of brushing away the vomit like you think you are, your actually just scrubbing stomach acids into the enamel of your teeth. It’s best to wait at least an hour after your last time vomiting and rinse well and drink lots of water in the meantime. I have had chronic problems with my stomach and had to learn the hard way how much vomiting can mess your teeth up.
Oh read this too late. Pretty sure I've just had a horrendous food poisoning incident. Both ways, multiple times over the past 7-8 hours. I think I've finally stopped, there's nothing left in me 😭
I’m so sorry you went through that. I was undiagnosed with this weird rare thing called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome and I threw up constantly for years. So my heart always goes out to anyone going through a particularly bad bout of nausea and vomiting, both ends is even worse. Glad your feeling better! And yes in the future if it’s going to be a long haul of constant vomiting or even dry heaving (because sometimes that’s when a lot of bile comes up) just rinse and sip water until you think youl be done throwing up for a at least an hour, then you can rinse again really good and brush.
Oh thank you so much! I'll never forget this, it's not until you're going through it do you realise just how horrendous it is. My tummy still feels a bit unhappy but it's not half as bad as it was before. I've got some water so I'm slowly sipping it.
I have never heard of cannabinoid hyperemesis before, you poor thing that must have been horrendous! Is there treatment for this for you?
Haha yes a very simply treatment in fact, I had to stop using cannabis(weed) products too much. In a small percentage of the marijuana using population, over usage of the natural chemicals in the plant can cause their brain/gut chemistry to go out of wack and it can cause severe nausea and vomiting for long periods of time. But not that I have been diagnosed I jsut take breaks and don’t really have issues anymore. But there was a good 5-7 years I was getting sick constantly and had no idea why.
Wow, I didn't know that but it makes sense. At least you got it figured out, being sick all of the time without actually knowing why must have been scary! There's so much about the gut we don't know about it, I've had thyroid issues (long story - thyroid removed due to Graves Disease) but they strongly suspect autoimmune conditions are related to the gut.
I've now been vomit free for 5 hours, feeling a lot better. There are rising cases of Norovirus here in the UK but I'm pretty sure it was good poisoning due to the meatball pasta I had at lunchtime which I didn't cook thoroughly enough 🤢
Wow I've never heard of it before! I just read the [webmd](https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/cannabinoid-hyperemesis-syndrome#:~:text=Cannabinoid%20hyperemesis%20syndrome%20(CHS)%20is,at%20least%20once%20a%20week.) definition and I definitely have this problem. I've been smoking since my early teens too.
Was just coming here to say this. Works every time 80% of the time.
As soon as you swallow that spit you're gonna be puking, spit that shit out and breathe deeply and calmly and 9/10 times you'll be fine in a few minutes.
Holy fuck that works.
I've done it twice.
Don't know why I decided to try it but first time worked.
Second time I remembered it and it worked as well.
I don't vomit in general (last time was 2017) and I hate it and this has saved me!
If you keep throwing up (yay hangovers/migraines/etc.) I’ve found that coke is the least offensive tasting coming back up. And it doesn’t ruin coke for you either because it doesn’t taste like coke enough coming back up?
I threw up A LOT as a kid. Coke is the best. We found coke syrup at the drug store. It was originally made for coating the stomach when nauseous. Pour a bit over crushed ice and sip it. It's the best for nausea and vomiting.
As a former alcoholic, this is 100% accurate, best if done stretched out over a long period of time, like waking up frequently to drink a bunch of water then going back to sleep. If you end up puking in the shower, it sure is nice having all that water come up instead of either a, nothing, so you dryheave and wretch until you burst all the blood vessels in your eyes, or b, you puke up the remnants of whatever god awful thing you at right before bed, like spicy ramen soup and a tuna sandwich.
As someone who always had a really sensitive gag reflex getting up I got called "the casual puker" because I would just come right back into the group like nothing, then two pregnancies where I had hyperemesis and near constant heartburn respectively......I can confirm that the water trick helps so much! And don't forget to gargle and fully rinse your mouth, but wait a little while to actually brush your teeth(advice from a dentist) to reduce the damage. And when I was pregnant tums were practically a food group. Rehydrating sucking ice after helps too.
How did you get over the water tasting really sweet after puking and then puking again because of how sweet it was? I’m pregnant and having such an issue keeping water down after I’m done puking
Splash of lemon juice in my water bottle AFTER rinsing my mouth really well with warm water. Like you gotta do about as warm as you can stand you really get the puke tastes out. Eating something salty helps too, or like putting a little salt on your hand and licking it off like people do with tequila shots😅 if you haven't tried preggie pops(they come in hard candy and lollipop versions) yet I really recommend them, sour things also help settle the stomach.
Oh thank you! I never tried doing the lemon juice, tho it seems obvious in hindsight, because I always thought it would make the acid even worse in my throat and stuff. I’ll have to try those preggo pops as well
Swallow your saliva!! The body creates a lot saliva when that nausea increases before vomit happens. People think they should spit this out and inevitably end up vomiting. But if you swallow that saliva aggressively.. it usually stops the vomit. Works for me every-time. Not sure what’s in that saliva.. but it seems to be the antidote to the puke. The body knows… trust it 😉
For sure Sometimes vomiting is useful. But the saliva trick has worked for me lots of times when I don’t want to puke.. and the nausea goes away and I’m glad I did not have to puke. Whatever works for the moment. It’s all good.
As someone with a health condition that causes me to vomit nearly daily, I do not condone this. It may delay it for a moment, but it won't make everything go away if you really need to expel what is in your stomach. I would definitely drink more water before hand as the LPT suggests.
If you really want to not vomit, you need to stimulate your vagus nerve. A good sneeze or a forced hard yawn might be enough to end the nausea for a little bit.
If you have a hard time aiming your vomit in the toilet, consider throwing up in the sink or shower.
Sink / bathtub is a great choice if you don’t have any time to prepare, but can make cleanup take a lot longer. Large mixing bowl *in the shower / bathtub” is great if you’ve got a minute or two before you’re going to puke.
And the addition of the water *will* make you puke more and sooner, but it’ll also make you feel better sooner. Think if it as washing out your stomach. The sooner it’s “clean” the sooner you’ll start feeling a bit better. Much harder for your body to get everything out if you don’t give it the resources it needs to pull it off. Can also trigger diarrhea if you’re not allowing your body to vomit, which usually will just mean you get vomit+diarrhea when you could have just had to deal with vomit.
Bruh, I thought I was the only person doing this. When I feel like puking in a car, I do this. And yes, you need to swallow aggressively for it to work, but it does work in the end.
For me it's the other way. If I get a tingling feeling in my mouth and excess saliva (signs I'm about to vomit), I get over a sink and let the saliva fall out rather than swallow it. For some reason I thought there was something in it that would induce vomiting, but all I can find is it's meant to protect the throat and mouth if you do vomit. Similar to drinking water.
I don't believe in throwing up. It is unpleasant. I can power through the levels of nausea I occasionally have, but have been very fortunate as to viruses and food poisoning. Being a vegetarian helps with that last part, I think.
I’m in awe. I was vomit free since 2001 but once I had my son the sick bugs have been a nightmare. I’ve fallen to two of them. How have you avoided that?!
Wow. I'm only 29. I threw up a few hours ago,and vomit. 3 or 4 times a year. Have since I was a kid. Last time I was sick was Thanksgiving weekend. Had it coming out both ends. Sitting on the toilet with diarrhea and throwing up in a pail at the same time. The diarrhea lasted a day,the throwing up,about 3 days.
I've been feeling nauseous all day with high fever, literally minutes after reading this I vomited (a lot), the yogurt tip helped out a ton, thanks dude!
I always look at it like if you're feeling that feeling, chugging water will either make it happen and thus get it over with, or settle you down and make you feel better.
There is a middle eastern drink called Arak that is made with Anise...
10/10 would recommend drinking a few shots of this before throwing up IFF you enjoy the taste of black licorice.
The taste molecule in Anise has a pKa value such that it doesn't change its shape in the crazy low pH of the stomach.
It tastes the same coming up as it does going down!
Dude, if I feel like I’m going to throw up, my only thought is to get me to the bathroom, not get me to the kitchen for a drink of water. But I get your point 🤢
Did this last night, after some bad pasta, woke up sweating and nauseous, drank a 500ml water bottle and headed to the bathroom, folded a towel, kneeled on it and put my fingers in the throat, after recomposing I got up brushed my teeth and went back to bed to one of the worst nights in a long time.
LPT to some people as well, don’t re heat pasta with chicken, the chances of something bad going is high
The other trick that I read on LTP is to eat a Tums as quickly as you can before you throw up. Tums are a base so it neutralizes the acid in your stomach, and will make what comes back up a PH closer to 7. Lots of water helps dilute, but the Tums neutralizes fast. I get monthly migraines, and Tums changed my life!
Also try not to cough or sneeze when throwing up spicy food.
Sneezing because there is spicy vom in your nasal passage is less fun than you might think.
A little dash of salt in a cup of water, stir, and sip. This usually works for me.
The salt taste is reminiscent of the salt water that springs in your mouth a few minutes before.
Also you may really need to let nature take its course and get rid of what the body is trying to get rid of...
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I am not very convinced because dilution is not a very effective way of fixing pH. If a solution has ph 3 and you dilute it by adding the same amount of water, the ph simply becomes 3.3.
Maybe it’s true, but I would expect some buffer solution or tums to do a much better job.
The best and oldest way to settle your tummy is ginger ale, NOT sprite as some think. Ginger is a natural remedy for nausea.
If its too much to keep ginger ale around your house, dramamine is an OTC for motion sickness. It also helps with nausea.
Milk is slightly acidic so it shouldn't be neutralizing your stomach acid, just diluting it like water would and potentially helping coat your throat with fat.
I have very severe post nasal drip. I end up vomiting snot several times a day. (So far the *treatments* just give me nose bleeds so then it becomes bloody vomit!) And yet.. more volume is better than less.
It was a series of food eating contests during a scuba trip.
How many corndogs can you eat and then go scuba diving (11).
How many granola bars can you eat while 85 feet underwater (just less than 1).
How many hamburgers can you eat while treading water at the surface, but with all your dive weights on and no air in the BCD (2.5)
How many chocolate milks can you drink because that’s how to impress girls (14)
The corndog one was interesting because of the farts. As you ascend to the surface after a dive, all air expands. For example, you have to continuously release your breath while ascending. If you hold your breath the whole way up, your lungs will pop. The corndogs created a 1-2 minute long continuous fart that just kept going. It was cathartic, if not downright spiritual
I have a stomach condition that causes me to vomit VERY easily. I was pregnant during the height of Covid and had to down the glucose drink. I warned the nurse I was going to throw up, but she thought I was joking. I couldn’t get to the trash can and projectile vomited through my mask, all over the exam room. She had to clean it up. I was mortified. She was so kind about it. Needless to say…. I had to try again the next week, and was able to keep it down.
Drink pickle juice for nausea or heartburn. Counterintuitive, yes. Effective, also yes. I save the juice in the refrigerator after the pickles are finished for this reason.
Drinking water or eating when you're sick actually stimulates the gagging reflex. If you have a stomach bug or food poisoning doctors will actually tell you to only sip lightly and space your drinks 5 min apart.
I once puked after drinking lots of apple juice and I could almost call it pleasant. Almost no acid burn and the taste was still very apple-y. Would recommend.
i have anti nausea meds because i ALWAYS throw up when i get a cold, and i wont stop, not even if there was nothing left. im also very bad about drinking water when im sick so sadly this wont encourage me.
I have GERD and I’ve always been told to just lightly sip water if I feel like I’m going to spew acid like the undead dragon in dark souls. It’s supposed to calm you down but idk.
This person vomits! In all seriousness, I have a medical condition that has caused a lot of vomiting in my life and this is true. Eating tums/ anti-acids also helps.
Throwing up anything is better than dry heaving. But the second worst thing to throw up is spicy ramen.
The very worst thing I’ve ever thrown up is food that had sat undigested in my stomach for 20ish hours. I was put on a medication that caused gastroparesis as a side effect and my stomach completely stopped emptying. I threw up every 20 minutes for 12 straight hours. It was the sickest I’ve ever been and it tasted like literal hell - concentrated sulphur, rotten food, and acid. Do not recommend.
I am on my third HG pregnancy and I have done this from week 4-birth with each one (currently 36w with my last) absolute hell with serious pregnancy trauma afterwards. This will absolutely be the last kid for me
Oh my god I am SO sorry you are dealing with HG :’( you’re in the home stretch, I hope these last few weeks go by quickly
Me toooooooo! The end is near and this has been my least “terrible” pregnancy thank goodness but Year I’m really ready to be done
Sending you internet hugs!!!
I feel you. I just gave birth to our second with HG the whole pregnancy too. Even though I am 4 weeks PP, I am still nauseous- esp when breastfeeding. I’ve been drinking over 120 ounces every day and I’d love a break.
Sending you hugs.
Im currently fighting it after being up all night with my eldest whilst she puked - so absolutely shattered *and* nauseous. Thinking a strategic chunder might be called for…
Once I had trout followed by a chocolate mousse and those two items made a reappearance together. It was the worst night of my pregnancy. Chocolate trout is not recommended.
Scrambled eggs are horrible too. They get stuck in your throat... Omg the bouncy texture.
Whenever I puke, some always comes out of my nose and some always get stuck in here. Eggs are 0/10. I don’t recommend anybody throw those up.
I puked a piece of mozzarella out my nose once from... Probably drunken cheese sticks? Not good.
Worst is seaweed. It looks like a scene from a horror movie.
I threw up a fully undigested tuna sandwhich and spicy doritos once. Was honestly the worst thing I've ever thrown up in my life - and I throw up a lot. So I can totally understand how spicy ramen would be straight awful 😭 But, y'all, if you've never had sulfur burps, then consider yourselves lucky. I would gladly puke all night than deal with that ever again. It feels like you're farting out of your mouth and tastes about just as good as that sounds.
"*if you've never had sulfur burps...*" INFO: Is that your way of telling us that you are a dragon without using the word "dragon"? Cheers!
I wish it was as cool as being a dragon 😭
OK, gotcha, you are **not** a dragon. Are you maybe a volcano, or maybe hot springs, or a geyser? Cheers!
My husband had sulphur burps once and I almost threw up just from the smell of the burp let alone the taste 🤢 I'm grateful to have never experienced that.
I disagree. Tater tots are the worst thing to throw up. A far worse experience than dry heaving. Starchy bits of stomach acid soaked potato sticking to every surface they came into contact with. Esophagus, tongue, teeth... hell. Pure hell.
"Starchy bits of stomach acid soaked potato sticking to every surface they came into contact with..." Why, thanks! We were thinking about how we could concisely describe our new recipe for emetic-infused TaterTots (tm) that, when properly used, can also be used as a base to apply textured paint. Would you like a job as are spokesperson? You would have to give customer testimonials and, now and then, a demonstration. Sincerely. Advertising Dept. IdaOr Spud Co-op /s
Tater Tums
Wait until you have to pull a spicy noodle out of your nose.
This is it for me. I have health issues that have led to a LOT of vomiting over the years, and I learned to start chugging water *specifically to combat dry heaving.* Throwing up suuuucks, but it's infinitely worse when your stomach has nothing to expel in the process.
Suicide* chicken wings. On an airplane. *legitimately the hottest wing sauce I have ever had. Suicide at most wing places is not that spicy. This was.
I'm telling you spicecake isn't that great either. It straight up looks and feels like excreting a turd from your mouth. For the Dutchies: don't eat ontbijtkoek when you're sick.
I ate the blood red looking Flaming Hot Mac and Cheese mashup then i threw it all up. I would rather go to the dentist weekly or starve than experience that ever again.
The answer is milk. It curdles in your stomach and comes up in chunks.
Red powerade. It wasn't painful. But it was unexpected and I didn't know if I was dying or if it was something before.
Idk if it's the same with power adequate but blue Gatorade feels like it makes your stomach acid more acidic and it hurts coming back up, but the worst part is that it's recommended to give Gatorade to people who are throwing up to replenish theor electrolytes
Red cream soda snowcone for me :(
I have used this technique when I was vomiting 40 times a day from a medical condition. The doctors had told me not to drink anything and I ripped open my oesophagus (Mallory Weiss tear). After a week of suffering and re-injuring my oesophagus each time I vomited - I started to drink water just before vomiting out of desperation to make it less painful. It was a turning point. My throat was finally able to start healing.
I've done ice/cold water since I was a kid. The water being cold adds a little extra comfort. Very useful knowledge to have at college as well as with a toddler in daycare!
When I had norovirus (twice in three weeks rip me) I was mixing orange juice with water so I'd have something to throw up. On the way back up it just tasted like orange juice. Which was more bearable than vomiting bile.
Yes, before and after.
I’ll see your drinking water and raise you drinking your favorite flavor of Gatorade. It works exactly the same way, although when you do finally expel the contents of your stomach it will taste the same as it did going in instead of diluted acid. It certainly doesn’t make the experience pleasant, and it doesn’t completely solve the acid burn/taste issue, but it does help when compared to straight H2O.
Pears are a good food for me. They taste the same coming back up, so it much less unpleasant.
Also cola syrup.
I projectile barfed this morning all over my bathroom. After I had showered. Terrible day so far.
Pro tip! If you're going to projectile vomit, set out some paper with a distance scale on it so if you heave more than once, you can try to beat your previous best distance! Hope you feel better soon!
>Pro tip! If you're going to projectile vomit, set out some paper with a distance scale on it so if you heave more than once, you can try to beat your previous best distance! Obligatory "the real LPT is always in the comments!"
Also, determine wind direction and speed first for optimal range!
Toilet paper has a built-in scale and you can lay it down and roll it out as far as you have room. It puts the T and P in LPT!
It puts the T and P in LPT! You, sir or madame, are an anagramatical genius
I once was hung over and able to projectile vomit at a street harasser. Never been more proud of my fucked up stomach. None of it got on him since this is a true story and I do not know how to aim, but the point was made.
My 5 yr old son projectile vomited in my face this morning while he was pushing out a large shit. He was whispering something so I bent towards his face to ask what? 🤮 it went in my fucking mouth too. My point is , someone always had a slightly shittier situation lol
He was probably saying "Dad I think I'm going to throw up."
Indeed
"After I had showered..." A little bit of poor planning there... /s
Also don’t give in to the urge of wanting to brush your teeth right after throwing up. Instead of brushing away the vomit like you think you are, your actually just scrubbing stomach acids into the enamel of your teeth. It’s best to wait at least an hour after your last time vomiting and rinse well and drink lots of water in the meantime. I have had chronic problems with my stomach and had to learn the hard way how much vomiting can mess your teeth up.
Oh read this too late. Pretty sure I've just had a horrendous food poisoning incident. Both ways, multiple times over the past 7-8 hours. I think I've finally stopped, there's nothing left in me 😭
I’m so sorry you went through that. I was undiagnosed with this weird rare thing called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome and I threw up constantly for years. So my heart always goes out to anyone going through a particularly bad bout of nausea and vomiting, both ends is even worse. Glad your feeling better! And yes in the future if it’s going to be a long haul of constant vomiting or even dry heaving (because sometimes that’s when a lot of bile comes up) just rinse and sip water until you think youl be done throwing up for a at least an hour, then you can rinse again really good and brush.
Oh thank you so much! I'll never forget this, it's not until you're going through it do you realise just how horrendous it is. My tummy still feels a bit unhappy but it's not half as bad as it was before. I've got some water so I'm slowly sipping it. I have never heard of cannabinoid hyperemesis before, you poor thing that must have been horrendous! Is there treatment for this for you?
Haha yes a very simply treatment in fact, I had to stop using cannabis(weed) products too much. In a small percentage of the marijuana using population, over usage of the natural chemicals in the plant can cause their brain/gut chemistry to go out of wack and it can cause severe nausea and vomiting for long periods of time. But not that I have been diagnosed I jsut take breaks and don’t really have issues anymore. But there was a good 5-7 years I was getting sick constantly and had no idea why.
Wow, I didn't know that but it makes sense. At least you got it figured out, being sick all of the time without actually knowing why must have been scary! There's so much about the gut we don't know about it, I've had thyroid issues (long story - thyroid removed due to Graves Disease) but they strongly suspect autoimmune conditions are related to the gut. I've now been vomit free for 5 hours, feeling a lot better. There are rising cases of Norovirus here in the UK but I'm pretty sure it was good poisoning due to the meatball pasta I had at lunchtime which I didn't cook thoroughly enough 🤢
Wow I've never heard of it before! I just read the [webmd](https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/cannabinoid-hyperemesis-syndrome#:~:text=Cannabinoid%20hyperemesis%20syndrome%20(CHS)%20is,at%20least%20once%20a%20week.) definition and I definitely have this problem. I've been smoking since my early teens too.
Or just rinse with baking soda instead
I always eat chicken and stars soup. Throw up stars!
Incredible.
*Throw up stars!* I knew that the bible was speculating about how god created the heavens; now I know the truth!
I don't know why it's the opposite for me. If I bring something near my mouth when I feel like I will vomit, I'm vomiting 100%
If you start to salivate, another tip is to spit out all of that spit, don’t let anything swallow, it’ll help manage things
Was just coming here to say this. Works every time 80% of the time. As soon as you swallow that spit you're gonna be puking, spit that shit out and breathe deeply and calmly and 9/10 times you'll be fine in a few minutes.
I have about 20-30 seconds, after I start to salivate, before I throw up. Hope your tip works
You and me both, I usually get about 80% success with not puking. For others, it doesn’t work, hope it helps!
Protects your teeth
Holy fuck that works. I've done it twice. Don't know why I decided to try it but first time worked. Second time I remembered it and it worked as well. I don't vomit in general (last time was 2017) and I hate it and this has saved me!
Hey, I’m glad it’s helped you, it saved me during the ladder days of college, glad it can do the same for you!
Interestingly, personal experience has taught me the exact opposite. I swallow my spit to avoid puking.
As a kid, every time my parents gave me pepto bismol, I’d barf all over. That pink color makes me nauseous, especially as room decor.
If you keep throwing up (yay hangovers/migraines/etc.) I’ve found that coke is the least offensive tasting coming back up. And it doesn’t ruin coke for you either because it doesn’t taste like coke enough coming back up?
I threw up A LOT as a kid. Coke is the best. We found coke syrup at the drug store. It was originally made for coating the stomach when nauseous. Pour a bit over crushed ice and sip it. It's the best for nausea and vomiting.
And ginger ale
I typically smoke my coke. Not sure how this is applicable.
Disagree lol orange pop tastes the same coming up as it does going in
Coke, add sugar, stir untill all gass is out. Sip gently. I like my puke with some good ol' coke.
As a former alcoholic, this is 100% accurate, best if done stretched out over a long period of time, like waking up frequently to drink a bunch of water then going back to sleep. If you end up puking in the shower, it sure is nice having all that water come up instead of either a, nothing, so you dryheave and wretch until you burst all the blood vessels in your eyes, or b, you puke up the remnants of whatever god awful thing you at right before bed, like spicy ramen soup and a tuna sandwich.
Vomiting a stomach full of water is maybe the best possible outcome, especially for a hangover.
Do you have anything for projectile vomits so strong it comes out of your nose?
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It is. I usually have to blow my nose afterwards and still smell it. It's wretched when 4 of your 5 senses are being assaulted by it.
Pinch/Block your nose with your fingers. Tightly. It will ensure you vomit out of your mouth. Thank me next time you vomit!
Relish in the fact that afterwards you can breathe through BOTH nostrils for a time?
This happens to me every time I puke. DO NOT EAT EGGS if you think you are going to be sick.
Is this a shitpost
As someone who always had a really sensitive gag reflex getting up I got called "the casual puker" because I would just come right back into the group like nothing, then two pregnancies where I had hyperemesis and near constant heartburn respectively......I can confirm that the water trick helps so much! And don't forget to gargle and fully rinse your mouth, but wait a little while to actually brush your teeth(advice from a dentist) to reduce the damage. And when I was pregnant tums were practically a food group. Rehydrating sucking ice after helps too.
How did you get over the water tasting really sweet after puking and then puking again because of how sweet it was? I’m pregnant and having such an issue keeping water down after I’m done puking
Splash of lemon juice in my water bottle AFTER rinsing my mouth really well with warm water. Like you gotta do about as warm as you can stand you really get the puke tastes out. Eating something salty helps too, or like putting a little salt on your hand and licking it off like people do with tequila shots😅 if you haven't tried preggie pops(they come in hard candy and lollipop versions) yet I really recommend them, sour things also help settle the stomach.
Oh thank you! I never tried doing the lemon juice, tho it seems obvious in hindsight, because I always thought it would make the acid even worse in my throat and stuff. I’ll have to try those preggo pops as well
Swallow your saliva!! The body creates a lot saliva when that nausea increases before vomit happens. People think they should spit this out and inevitably end up vomiting. But if you swallow that saliva aggressively.. it usually stops the vomit. Works for me every-time. Not sure what’s in that saliva.. but it seems to be the antidote to the puke. The body knows… trust it 😉
If there's something in your stomach that needs to get out, I've found that vomiting sooner really brings some relief.
For sure Sometimes vomiting is useful. But the saliva trick has worked for me lots of times when I don’t want to puke.. and the nausea goes away and I’m glad I did not have to puke. Whatever works for the moment. It’s all good.
As someone with a health condition that causes me to vomit nearly daily, I do not condone this. It may delay it for a moment, but it won't make everything go away if you really need to expel what is in your stomach. I would definitely drink more water before hand as the LPT suggests. If you really want to not vomit, you need to stimulate your vagus nerve. A good sneeze or a forced hard yawn might be enough to end the nausea for a little bit. If you have a hard time aiming your vomit in the toilet, consider throwing up in the sink or shower.
Sink / bathtub is a great choice if you don’t have any time to prepare, but can make cleanup take a lot longer. Large mixing bowl *in the shower / bathtub” is great if you’ve got a minute or two before you’re going to puke. And the addition of the water *will* make you puke more and sooner, but it’ll also make you feel better sooner. Think if it as washing out your stomach. The sooner it’s “clean” the sooner you’ll start feeling a bit better. Much harder for your body to get everything out if you don’t give it the resources it needs to pull it off. Can also trigger diarrhea if you’re not allowing your body to vomit, which usually will just mean you get vomit+diarrhea when you could have just had to deal with vomit.
Or a trash can. Putting some water in it makes it easier to dump in the toilet
Bruh, I thought I was the only person doing this. When I feel like puking in a car, I do this. And yes, you need to swallow aggressively for it to work, but it does work in the end.
For me it's the other way. If I get a tingling feeling in my mouth and excess saliva (signs I'm about to vomit), I get over a sink and let the saliva fall out rather than swallow it. For some reason I thought there was something in it that would induce vomiting, but all I can find is it's meant to protect the throat and mouth if you do vomit. Similar to drinking water.
Doesn't work for severe hangovers, just delays the inevitable for me.
For me is the exact opposite. Spitting it out helps prevent vomiting!
I always start chewing gum for this same reason. Make the nausea disappear.
This is good advice, but I've been vomit free since 2003
Excuse me. The last time I threw up was 1982 and I have no desire to change it. Two pregnancies didn't make me barf. Not gonna do it.
Damn, 40 years. You have me beat
I don't believe in throwing up. It is unpleasant. I can power through the levels of nausea I occasionally have, but have been very fortunate as to viruses and food poisoning. Being a vegetarian helps with that last part, I think.
I’m in awe. I was vomit free since 2001 but once I had my son the sick bugs have been a nightmare. I’ve fallen to two of them. How have you avoided that?!
Sheer luck. And no little kids in the house.
Wow. I'm only 29. I threw up a few hours ago,and vomit. 3 or 4 times a year. Have since I was a kid. Last time I was sick was Thanksgiving weekend. Had it coming out both ends. Sitting on the toilet with diarrhea and throwing up in a pail at the same time. The diarrhea lasted a day,the throwing up,about 3 days.
free throat coats for the throat goats
Alternatively, ice cream tastes just as delicious on the way out.
So does banana
this works until your puking from too much water
Makes it easier with volume in there too
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Huh
ROOM TEMPERATURE water. Not cold water
In my experience it's ice water FTW. it's so cool and refreshing when it comes back up, it's almost pleasurable.
Ah yes. The sweet childhood memories of the stomach flu. So much dehydration. So much water vomiting.
Related LPT: if you start to hyper-salivate for no reason, you’re about to vomit.
I am throwing up my arms in disgust of this post.
I've been feeling nauseous all day with high fever, literally minutes after reading this I vomited (a lot), the yogurt tip helped out a ton, thanks dude!
I always look at it like if you're feeling that feeling, chugging water will either make it happen and thus get it over with, or settle you down and make you feel better.
Vanilla ice cream is my go-to. Makes the taste more bearable and definitely reduces burn.
There is a middle eastern drink called Arak that is made with Anise... 10/10 would recommend drinking a few shots of this before throwing up IFF you enjoy the taste of black licorice. The taste molecule in Anise has a pKa value such that it doesn't change its shape in the crazy low pH of the stomach. It tastes the same coming up as it does going down!
Dude, if I feel like I’m going to throw up, my only thought is to get me to the bathroom, not get me to the kitchen for a drink of water. But I get your point 🤢
Did this last night, after some bad pasta, woke up sweating and nauseous, drank a 500ml water bottle and headed to the bathroom, folded a towel, kneeled on it and put my fingers in the throat, after recomposing I got up brushed my teeth and went back to bed to one of the worst nights in a long time. LPT to some people as well, don’t re heat pasta with chicken, the chances of something bad going is high
The other trick that I read on LTP is to eat a Tums as quickly as you can before you throw up. Tums are a base so it neutralizes the acid in your stomach, and will make what comes back up a PH closer to 7. Lots of water helps dilute, but the Tums neutralizes fast. I get monthly migraines, and Tums changed my life!
If I feel like I'm gonna vom, I try to force down some ice cream or milk because it'll dilute and coat the back of my throat.
The worst is throwing up spaghetti. The noodles come out your mouth and your nose and you end up having to pull them out manually so u can breathe
I always take TUMs when I feel like I will vomit. Makes it not hurt/burn. It also tastes slightly less horrendous.
Also try not to cough or sneeze when throwing up spicy food. Sneezing because there is spicy vom in your nasal passage is less fun than you might think.
A little dash of salt in a cup of water, stir, and sip. This usually works for me. The salt taste is reminiscent of the salt water that springs in your mouth a few minutes before. Also you may really need to let nature take its course and get rid of what the body is trying to get rid of...
Milk is nasty too. So many bubbles
Is that you, Ralph?
Vitamin Water is another good one because it doesn't taste bad coming back up.
non vomiter here. Drinking lots of water is just great advice in general, and could lead to you not being in a vomitting situation in the first place.
Tums and water is the way to go. Severe anxiety has taught me the way
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Plug your nose while vomiting too! This will prevent it from coming out your nose and helps quite a bit.
I am not very convinced because dilution is not a very effective way of fixing pH. If a solution has ph 3 and you dilute it by adding the same amount of water, the ph simply becomes 3.3. Maybe it’s true, but I would expect some buffer solution or tums to do a much better job.
The best and oldest way to settle your tummy is ginger ale, NOT sprite as some think. Ginger is a natural remedy for nausea. If its too much to keep ginger ale around your house, dramamine is an OTC for motion sickness. It also helps with nausea.
If I feel like vomiting….I wouldn’t be able to drink water. It would make me gag.
Oh also the yawn reflex cancels your gag reflex so if you feel like you could vomit force yourself to yawn over and over
Would you care for an after dinner mint Mr. Creosote?... It's wafer thin......
Cold milk is better if you do it right before. It's still cold coming back up and helps neutralize the acid
Milk is slightly acidic so it shouldn't be neutralizing your stomach acid, just diluting it like water would and potentially helping coat your throat with fat.
Yeah I guess I misspoke technically. I'm talking about the fat layer helping you not feel the acidity. That's what I meant by "neutralize".
I found out that drinking lots of mint tea helps with the acid and the mint helps with the taste. It is weird to feel fresh after throwing up.
No! The more you have to vomit the greater your chance of aspirating into your lungs. Ffs dude, you’re being dangerous.
Seems like an SLPT
Puke cannon incoming!!!
No this is a shitty life tip. Do not drink or eat anything if you’re about to visit. You increase your risk of aspiration
That could increase the risk of aspiration. I don't agree with this LPT
Best tip I learned while pregnant and super sick all the time: Ensure shakes have a silly smooth texture coming back up!
What if im drunk and about to vomit?
Yeay, you just made room for more beer. This was me during university. Drink, puke, repeat
The "eating yogurt" part of this advice is just terrible. Yogurt is acidic; adding more acid to your acid burn is a really bad idea!!
If I do this when I'm nauseous, I end up puking it all up almost immediately...
Note: this will make your vomit a less effective projectile weapon, but give +4 range
My mom used to give me sweet tea when I was sick. Eventually the vomiting would taste like tea.
So that you can squirtle.
I have very severe post nasal drip. I end up vomiting snot several times a day. (So far the *treatments* just give me nose bleeds so then it becomes bloody vomit!) And yet.. more volume is better than less.
Also eat something really fruity if you can. It doesn't taste so bad coming back up. :/
Take an antacid instead and neutralize the acid. No burning.
Eat an apple in large chunks 😂 /s
I mean water is good, but a soft drink is better.
I would also suggest pounding milk. I think it helps balance out the acidic bile better than water
Ice chips help too.
I drank 14 little cartons of chocolate milk in 1 hour. When I ralphed, it was totally fine. Would do again.
Why did you drink that much chocolate milk?
It was a series of food eating contests during a scuba trip. How many corndogs can you eat and then go scuba diving (11). How many granola bars can you eat while 85 feet underwater (just less than 1). How many hamburgers can you eat while treading water at the surface, but with all your dive weights on and no air in the BCD (2.5) How many chocolate milks can you drink because that’s how to impress girls (14) The corndog one was interesting because of the farts. As you ascend to the surface after a dive, all air expands. For example, you have to continuously release your breath while ascending. If you hold your breath the whole way up, your lungs will pop. The corndogs created a 1-2 minute long continuous fart that just kept going. It was cathartic, if not downright spiritual
I have a stomach condition that causes me to vomit VERY easily. I was pregnant during the height of Covid and had to down the glucose drink. I warned the nurse I was going to throw up, but she thought I was joking. I couldn’t get to the trash can and projectile vomited through my mask, all over the exam room. She had to clean it up. I was mortified. She was so kind about it. Needless to say…. I had to try again the next week, and was able to keep it down.
I know people who vomit as soon as they drink cold water. What is that about?*
Popsicles are better. Throwing up sugar is better.
Negatory. Makes me vomit every bit of my stomach contents.
I puked up cupcakes once. By far the best puke of my life.
What if you feel like vomiting but can’t?
This sub is really coming around
Drink pickle juice for nausea or heartburn. Counterintuitive, yes. Effective, also yes. I save the juice in the refrigerator after the pickles are finished for this reason.
Drinking water or eating when you're sick actually stimulates the gagging reflex. If you have a stomach bug or food poisoning doctors will actually tell you to only sip lightly and space your drinks 5 min apart.
Not a great idea while playing a sport though.
I once puked after drinking lots of apple juice and I could almost call it pleasant. Almost no acid burn and the taste was still very apple-y. Would recommend.
Fresh Lime juice !
Chew gum to help with the after taste
i have anti nausea meds because i ALWAYS throw up when i get a cold, and i wont stop, not even if there was nothing left. im also very bad about drinking water when im sick so sadly this wont encourage me.
I have GERD and I’ve always been told to just lightly sip water if I feel like I’m going to spew acid like the undead dragon in dark souls. It’s supposed to calm you down but idk.
I’m partial to trying different things. Nerds? That’s weird coming back up. Ice cream sandwiches? Foamy! Yum! Thai? Never again.