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Old Nov 11, 2003, 12:54 PM
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Erin - Also try sucking on peppermints and taking small sips of flat ginger ale (ie. ginger ale with the bubbles stirred out). I find that the Canada Dry™ brand works better than Schweppes™, but this may just be in my head. This is just my impression over the last 20 years of recommending ginger ale; I have never made a formal comparison by collecting statistics, so my impression could be wrong.

Anyway, I am reasonably sure of my next statement (more so than the last): sugared ginger ale works better than diet ginger ale. Again, it must be flat (no carbonation), so, pour the ginger ale into a glass and either let nature remove the bubbles, or to hasten the process stir the ginger ale and carbon dioxide fizzes away faster.

NOTE <font color=red>When removing the carbonation from the ginger ale, I DO NOT RECOMMEND shaking a can or bottle and opening either quickly. This may be the fastest way to get rid of the bubbles, but it is also the messiest! </font color=red>
You could use ginger capsules, but I find that sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.

Some reasons for many of the treatment failures could be the tablet not containing enough of the active ingredient. This is occurring less frequently than in the past, but some herbal companies are standardizing the presumed active ingredient[s] of the ginger in order to set a standard dose. The bottle of ginger tablets may say 50mg (or whatever)/tablet, but that is only 50mg of the ginger, not 50mg of the active ingredient[s]. When buying herbal remedies the only one's I would choose are those that state (on the label) that these herbal pills have been standardized to such-&-such concentration[s] of the - proposed - active ingredient[s]. This raises the price of the herbal medication considerably, but it is the only way one could be reasonably sure that each pill has the same concentration of active ingredient[s] from tablet to tablet, case to case, lot to lot.

Some preggos..... er, I mean .... some of those <font color=blue>"compellingly-radiant, ethereally-alluring, and instrinsically-anxious parturients"</font color=blue> have benefitted from ginger tablets that we sell in our store, others haven't.

Peppermints and Scotch Mints (same thing, I think) do help to soothe the stomach of pregnant woman who are at that wonderfully enlightening and memorable stage between conception and motherhood ..... <font color=green>morning sickness</font color=green>.

I hope that one of these suggestions helps ease the next cople of weeks. - Cam