Common home remedies for nausea include:
- Drink clear or ice-cold drinks. Try sucking on ice chips. Sipping on a clear, fizzy drink may also help to settle your stomach. Avoid any acidic juices, such as orange or grapefruit juice.
- Eat light, bland foods (such as saltine crackers or gelatin). You may also want to try the BRAT diet (bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast).
- Meditate or take deep breaths.
- Get fresh air. Going outside, opening a window, or sitting in front of a fan may help.
- Do not mix hot and cold foods.
- Rest in a seated or slightly elevated position. Lying flat may allow gastric juices to rise, making your nausea worse. Try to avoid compressing - or "crunching" - your stomach.
- Try a cool compress on the back of your neck.
- Eating a small piece of fresh or candied ginger or drinking some ginger tea may help.
- Take peppermint capsules or drink peppermint tea.