AC Chemo - Day2

Thank you Kath 

Weird abiut that bburpin thing... My wholemlife I have not been able to burp (some weird herreditary thing as my mum is the same - neither of us can burp or throw up - can count on my fingers number of times I bomited in my whole life - mind you it is a bugger as it makes the nausia lasts forever if one has a need to vomit - hence my finding every possible resourse to deal with gas and nausia over my 44 years...)

Lemon and bitter herbs and fruits are great for nausia. Peppermint tea is fantastic for dealing with binding gas in the tummy and forcing it to be exoelled PLUS it is anti bacterial so deals with any bacteria in digestive tract BUT it does harden the stool so definitely make sure you drink movicol if drinking pepermin tea while doing chemo.

But if you have gas troubles peppermint tea will bind it and force it out faster than you can imagine

Thank you for the advice on water.

I am terrified of UTIs as I am prone to them any time I dehydrate so have been drinking probably 3 to 4 litres daily. I have bought those 600ml bottled of mineral water one can find in multioacks and now am making sure I open 1 each morning and when empty refill it at least 6 times before going to bed and jeep one next to the bed making sure I drink it by the morning.

As you can imagine all that fluid makes me get up several times during the night but right now I would rather deal with interrupted sleep than risking a UTI so thus far it is working.

But that need to burp at drinking water is driving me nuts... Who would have ever though that our bodies can react to pure water even before it has hit the gut in that way...

Thank you for the advice... I do think it is so easy to forget to drink eniugh water as time goes on so will need to figure out how to remind myself as days go on as once I get past the apprehension andnhysteria of these initial first day I will be in the 'danger zone' of forgetting to stick with this discipline...

Jel.