A few nights ago I had terrible heartburn, something which I rarely experience. The first night it was so bad that I started to throw up when I laid down to go to sleep; moving quickly from a prone position to upright is physically painful for me at this stage, but believe me, I got up fast! I don’t know what is causing it now – I’m assuming it’s connected to being late in pregnancy – but it was mighty unpleasant. Here’s a little experiment I did that was successful in dealing with it.
I keep a small container of baking soda in my bathroom to brush my teeth with (baking soda has tons of uses – I just bought a 50 lb bag when I did my monthly shopping last week – I think it should last me just about the rest of my life, don’t you? :)). Since it was so late at night and I didn’t feel like going downstairs to look up what to do about heartburn, I decided to try mixing some baking soda with water and drinking it and see if it would work. (I’d estimate the measurements to be about 1 t. of baking soda to a cup of water.) I’ve used this for very quick relief of indigestion in the past, but didn’t know if it would work for heartburn.
I’m happy to say that it worked very quickly, and very well, and I was able to fall asleep without any further discomfort after a couple of minutes. So now I have one more effective use of baking soda to add to my list!
Avivah
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