I’ve been sick in bed with a stomach bug since Friday, and just like in childhood, an icee from the gas station is the only thing that I can seem to keep down.
I’ve been sick in bed with a stomach bug since Friday, and just like in childhood, an icee from the gas station is the only thing that I can seem to keep down.
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Sprite and saltine crackers. Always. Does the trick every time
My family never used ginger ale, only 7up!
Sprite with Campbells chicken noodle soup.
Sprite and saltine crackers is my family’s go-to if we’re having trouble keeping stuff down.
Wonton soup
My sick meal is always 2 McDoubles, a large fry, and a sweet tea. My wife will recoil at the idea of how greasy it is, but it works just right for me.
Shrimp flavor instant ramen. My grandmother used to make me it when i didn’t feel good as a kid.
Butterscotch Pudding.
Only when I’m super sick, and no harsh GI stuff, I also don’t eat it pretty much any time, but whenever I’m sick it is a craving I gotta itch.
Saltine crackers are good when you need something in your belly but can’t eat much. Chicken broth or chicken noodle soup is easy on the belly, too.
Ginger snap > saltines.
Gatorade, chicken broth, and congee. That’s pretty much it tbh
Ginger ale is a cure all lol but lemongrass tea
Gatorade tbh.
When I had strep throat I would eat celery dipped in apple cider vinegar. (This just made me feel better lol)
Yogurt is good for stomach bugs. I once had a stomach bug that I couldn’t move without yakking and yogurt actually helped. Looked it up online and they said yogurt so I tried it and after an hour I felt well enough I could sit up and move around.
Flat coke is good for vomiting. One teaspoon every 15 minutes
Hot Jello
Congee usually.
I usually do oatmeal with a bit of peanut butter mixed in if nothing else sounds good. Also sprite, ginger candies (if its a stomach issue), and soup.
Fire cider.
My Italian grandmother would always make me and my sister rice pudding whenever we were sick as kids. I still miss it (and miss her!) whenever I get sick now as an adult.
My husband drinks beer and eats anchovy’s
Campbell’s chicken noodle soup. The kind in a can. That and saltines with 7up or Sprite.
Flat cola
Sorry, but Vernors ginger ale is my go-to. Aside from that, Lipton chicken noodle soup. And Bomb Pop popsicles
7 up or warm chicken stock.
I make a “health soup” that’s usually chicken/wild rice/carrots/spinach. I’ll eat it for a couple days.
Sprite. Crackers. Chicken noodle soup. As South park said this is the white mans cure to illness.
Michiganders all about to come in with the Vernors recco.
Fudge popsicles
I always start to crave a ham and cheese sandwich on white bread (I usually only eat whole wheat) with lettuce and tomato, and a glass of orange juice.
Jello
Chicken broth (I just mix caldo de pollo with hot water)
Electrolytes/liquid IV
Saltines and 7Up
When I was a kid, we’d eat homemade warm tapioca pudding
Popsicles
Ramen
Not ginger ale??? But that’s my answer…
Saltines too.
As a kid, Campbell’s chicken noodle.
As an adult, Campbell’s vegetarian vegetable.
Sometimes:
Buttered toast
Or
Spaghetti with butter
Hi-C but only in a juicebox
Always Ginger Ale.
I keep ginger chew candy on hand for nausea.
My sick diet is usually chicken broth, Pedialyte, plain rice, mashed potatoes, bananas and toast.
Always ginger ale and saltines for me, but growing up we were given flat Coke, which worked great for nausea!
red powerade in a glass with a lot of ice and saltines
Biscoff cookies.
Tea (hot or cold), toast, crackers, and/or applesauce. Chicken noodle soup if I can take it. Mashed potatoes, for sure.
Pedialyte pops.
Chicken torrilla soup
Saltines and chicken noodle soup
I have cyclic vomiting syndrome, and struggle with my appetite daily. When I’m super sick, I make a chicken congee with just rice, chicken bullion, and a dash of sesame oil. Crackers, bread, apple juice, bullion cubes, pedialyte, and the most important thing to me, is “hospital ice.” We keep a bag of Sonic ice in the freezer at all times.
Bone broth.
Pho
Congee made with Knorr chicken broth cubes for extra salt.
Coca-cola, from a glass bottle.
Water is apparently unique. Never understood the thought process behind drinking soda when you’re sick.
Gatorade and saltines
Hot tea.
Garlic cloves, turmeric, black pepper and elderberry
For a stomach bug I always eat watermelon. It’s hydrating, light and when I inevitably get “sick” it’s much easier on the way up than most other things.
Saltine crackers though there is a very local fast food chain whose french fries always made me feel better. Especially if my stomach is upset. Unfortunately they just changed their fries so I don’t know if the new ones will work.
I go to a Vietnamese restaurant and some pho broth. Most places will sell just the broth by the quart or bowl. Always fixes my stomach/throat/lungs. That stuff is magic.
Broth and saltines
Popsicles at first. Eventually I move onto a baked potato.
Depending on the kind of sick either miso soup or cla chowder. No matter what kind of sick, ice water to drink.
Saltine crackers with a bit of butter on them and either Sprite or 7-Up. Sometimes I’ll also have Ramen noodles.
Pozole if I can get it.
Gatorade. Food depends on what sounds good
I can tell how bad my cold is by how good cambells chicken noodle soup sounds. I usually don’t like it much but when I’m sick it just hits the spot. With some saltine crackers.
Sprite and Saltines, I’m from Kentucky.
Well you are refusing the vernors, I have nothing I can offer you, you chose your fate
Pho will bring you back to life.
Soup in general is the way to go, but hot, spicy pho is the best.
Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, Dayquil, and Sprite.
Spicy Korean tofu soup – for flu with fatigue, rigors, sore throat, congestion. I’m white and have been spoiled by amazing Korean restaurants nearby
Whiskey, tie on a good one you’ll feel like ass the next day but they day after that I always tend to feel better, for head colds anyway.
Activated charcoal
Make sure your ginger ale still has ginger in it. Some don’t anymore. There’s also ginger tea which is good for the lungs in addition to the stomach. I’ve had good results with remedy teas in general.
Sprite and toast with a bit of butter but that’s only for stomach bugs.
Looks around in Michigander – what’s wrong with Vernor’s? It’s cured generations of children in this state.
Ginger Tea and navy bean chicken soup.
Ginger Ale (sorry!) And Campbell’s Chicken Noodle. None of that fancy homestyle stuff either, just the super salty kind from the can.
Also, Trader Joe’s sells Ginger Mints. Like Altoids, but Ginger. They are perfect when nauseous, especially when you’re not at home.
Sweetened Earl Grey tea always makes me feel better.
Sick soup. Campbell tomato mixed with powdered Lipton chicken noodle.
Biolyte and chicken tenders
Gatorade, sips of warm coke a cola, soda crackers, ginger tea at room temp. Usually I don’t eat but if I even get 2 crackers down a day I feel it helps.
Unique-r? Ginger tea. Usually the common chicken noodle soup, jello, saltines. Got sick a lot last fall. Had to take zofran for the nausea.
Saltines, but with butter on them. And chicken soup – I always have homemade bone broth on hand.
yellow gatorade and i always ask my mom to make borscht
Chicken noodle soup. Saltines. Gatorade. For stomach bug. If its not a stomach thing and a cold sweat fever headache type flu symptom. I try and sweat it out as soon as I can get on my feet. Go for a wildly half ass run. Or walk. Or just be outside and upright. My dad is convinced he can poison the flu with wild turkey whiskey. Im not convinced. Does knock you out though thats for sure
Spaghetti Os and – if not a stomach issue – warm milk with honey.
Liptons tea. That’s what my mom would always give us for a stomach bug. Feel better soon!
Powerade and pretzels
Chicken soup, preferably with matza balls.
Though through a quirk of the English language, often pointlessly discussed in NSQ and elsewhere on Reddit, we generally don’t say we drink soup, even clear soups; we eat soup.
Not unique but hot water with lemon and honey, or hot tea (and maybe some honey). I don’t know if you don’t like ginger in general, but tummy drops help me with my stomach issues. They’re ginger based but they have different flavors, and they’re similar to cough drops
Soup broth without anything in it if you can’t handle much in solids. Could add rice if you can tolerate it
Saltines or bread
Chicken noodle soup or similar. Add in some pasta (like elbows) or crackers to make it a little more filling imo
Mashed Potatoes and Gravy. My Dad would bring this from the local Chicken Joint. They recently went out of business and at 50 it puts me in a tailspin. I can get them elsewhere but it won’t be the same.
Lemon juice mixed with honey
White toast. If I’m nauseated, I’ll eat it dry. If not, I’ll add a little butter.
Also, plain, white rice with a little salt and pepper on it. Rice tends to be something that’s easy to keep down when you’re sick. Single-serving cups of Minute Rice are inexpensive and simple to make – just throw it in the microwave for one minute and it’s done.
Coke or Pepsi with lemon. When I was in Thailand I had food poisoning and this was suggested. I tried it and it helped.
Brioschi has always helped me with nausea.
Pho and Gatorade
Just stay hydrated. If you can eat, juat have small sips of water or suck on an ice cube.
Spicy ramen
Applesauce
Baby pastina with butter
Saltines and yellow Gatorade
Tea, chicken broth, Pedialyte
Campbell’s chicken and stars.
Pho, just broth and noodles
The good all-fruit popsicles
Diet cokes
Electrolyte tabs in water
Chinese hot and sour soup is great for a cold.
Flat Coke (stir regular Coke with a spoon to get the bubbles out) and Saltines. Once you can keep stuff down, full sugar Gatorade and chicken noodle soup.
Very often just kefir all day long.
Used to be Dr. Pepper
Homemade turkey bone broth from Thanksgiving, boiled for 10 minutes with hunks of ginger to reheat. Works every time and gets me in some protein.
Gatorade
https://youtu.be/KPSO2M4kjB4?si=DsuBWAcPpPD3f7UL
This is something my mom’s mom made for her and my mom made for me. I still make it for myself when I’m sick, even though my husband thinks it’s odd.
Boil water. Pour it in a mug with one bouillon cube (or one teaspoon of the paste). Add garlic powder, black pepper, and parsley. Stir and enjoy.
Coca-Cola, chicken and stars, Gatorade, applesauce
Hot & soup soup and simply strawberry lemonade
Idk how unique it is but after turning 40 I find no elixer quite as healing as a strong hot toddy.
Sprite and toast
Not unique but bigelow constant comment hot tea is my go to comfort drink when I’m either sick or stressed.
If I have a sore throat, I drink pickle brine.
Saltines, mashed potatoes, applesauce, watermelon, sprite.
Pedialyte
7Up makes me puke ever since a bout of the flu around age 10 or so.
Sprite, or, last time I was dog sick, I could manage Lemon-lime Gatorade. A few days later, could add the red.
I keep a six pack of each in the house, along with the mini 8 or 10oz or whatever they are, cans of Sprite. And oyster crackers or saltines.
Regular, full calorie Coca-Cola. It’s the least unpleasant thing to throw back up, for me.
Chinese wonton soup broth
I guzzle a nice tall refreshing glass of bacon grease.. (please don’t)
Hot honey lemonade. It’s about one part lemon juice fresh squeezed with pulp, one part honey and four parts hot water.
Flat coke. Cola syrup is an anti emetic.
Yes to Sprite and saltines but also flat Coke and saltines
Water, Gatorade, and chamomile tea. For food, toast & butter, saltine crackers, chicken noodle soup
Shot Jameson, shot of nyquil. This is horrifically bad for you don’t do it.
Cannabis gummies.
Drink warm jello. Coats the stomach so you can digest something even if you throw it up!
Grape Kool-Aid
Plain cheese nachos.
Saltines.
Ginger ale and chicken noodle soup. As an adult ginger and tumeric tea and either beef or chicken sippin broth and chicken noodle soup
I never really understood the logic. “If I eat something mild and can keep it down, then I’ll be ready to eat something else.”
OK….but I don’t want to eat these gross Chex my mother keeps giving me. Why don’t I just eat the ‘something else’ right away and see if that stays down directly? How is the middle step helping anything? 🙂
Nothing for a stomach bug, I’ve tried pretty much every suggestion over the years and had the displeasure of throwing them back up. I take the tiniest sips of water until my stomach has settled.
Lemonade for a sore or scratchy throat.
Buttered Toast when I have a fever.
Pho or Spicy ramen for a head cold.
I found a few foods useful with that situation. Chicken noodle soup is a go to for a lot of people, but chicken pot pie soup works so much better in my experience. Progresso makes a good one. I rely on it with all stomach problems.
Bananas are a good choice, too. They’re actually soothing on the stomach and may help if you have diarrhea as part of your stomach bug.
If you’re of legal age and think you can handle it, a shot of Jägermeister can also do wonders. My roommate is German, and she says that in Germany it’s often used as a remedy for stomach issues and served as a dessert drink to aid in digestion. She falls back on it for her stomach problems. After trying it myself, it cleared up the chronic diarrhea I’ve been putting up with for 9 years.
While Jewish, when sick I don’t crave the traditional Jewish chicken soup with noodles or matzo balls. I crave various ethnic soups like ramen, pho, pozole.
Stomach bug I go with liquid iv and or unwell. If it’s a flu I drink a half gallon of oj.
For me it’s always been fresh fruit, but especially cherries. Along with some form of citrus soda. Prefer Squirt, but 7-up/sprite/etc will do in a pinch.
Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, the condensed kind, and tea with extra sugar for a cold. Gatorade and saltines for nausea. Gatorade for a migraine.
Bananas and sprite or 7up. 🤷♀️
Gatorade- only the original flavor- watered down 50%
Campbell’s chicken noodle soup and ginger ale.
Spicy broth foods. Like good ramen. And some dayquil to wash it down.
Those butter club crackers and good Irish cheddar, strong black tea with tons of sugar
Mustard on toast and tonic water.
Gatorade and toast with red bean paste.
Sprite mixed with orange juice, Gatorade, Parmesan gold fish
Pastina.
Green Curry
sprite
Jello and apple sauce.
Saltines and blue gatorade
(not ginger ale!) – everyone from Michigan is out 😂
I drink piping hot peppermint tea. I used to get the tea from Alterra (a local coffee shop) but they sold out & it tastes like crap now.
Bone broth
Nothing. I’m rarely sick, but when it happens, I can’t eat or drink anything.
Zofran and soup. Usually miso.
I like Constant Comment tea with extra sugar. Otherwise almost never drink any hot tea
Ramen noodle
Liquid IV get those electrolytes my friend.
Hot water.
Put an ice pack in a pillowcase and put it near my tailbone.
If I’m truly sick as a dog then it’s
Toast or Apple Sauce
Toast with butter or Toast with peanut butter as I get better
Once I’m just feeling a normal amount of terrible it’s Fideo (Mexican pasta soup)
I’m sick now and made hot lemonade with honey and a bit of whisky. My grandmother would always make this. Once you were about 5, this was flu and cold medicine lol.
Grape Gatorade. Diluted with water and ice.
I strongly recommend ginger tea and chicken broth warmed up, maybe with a bit of heavy cream in it if you’re not lactose intolerant. If I have a cold, I love adding pepper to the ginger tea.
I’m on a ketogenic medical diet so I can’t do the usual Sprite and saltines. Have to get creative.
Pho broth
Bomb pops and cannabis
Tea, or flat ginger ale, and saltines or dry toast.
I tend to want egg drop soup. It’s easy to eat, but had some nutrients and things in it. Clear onion soup as well.