With the frequent loo trips: I have a theory (one of hundreds LOL) that your bladder is like your stomach... it can be stretched and shrunk according to how much fills it on a regular basis. So, if you drink less and less eventually it will be able to hold less while still feeling comfortable. Perhaps what you need to do is bite the bullet and just drink heaps for a few days... keep it full so that after a while it's capacity (or sensitivity to capacity) will be increased. I find that over summer (when i lose my appetite in the heat) my stomach shrinks... meaning it doesn't take much to make me feel full.... so i end up eating less. Like I said, it's just a theory... but what have you got to lose (excpet a few more trips to the loo for a while). i'm sure your body will love the extra hydration... it will also do great things for bubba's amniotic fluid which has to be replenished frequently.
ETA: just saw your last post... that's great about the fluids Do you think it could be candida then?
i guess it could be - i'm leaning towards something cheese related - my bro used to get it all the time as a kid so he'd be banned from cheese for a while (this was a guy who could eat a block of cheese over three days cos he'd have it on toast for brekkie, sandwiches for lunch) plus drink up to 2L of milk a day! every time it happened, mum would stop the dairy, and he'd come good
so, i'm trying elimination from today - no more cheese this week - if that stops it, so be it! if not, i'll try and see if there is something else . don't want to go to GP as they'll use a tongue depressor to look - and i'll hurl on them! plus it's a 60k round trip, which will make the queasies worse!
hoping it's just the cheese (i've gone from not eating brekkie at all, to eating brekkie with cheese every day... have lost almost 5kg though...) - the only other thing it could be is the morning half banana... eliminate one, if it don't work, the banana will go too (just have to find a simple 6am replacement...)
sounds like you're drinking heaps, I find I feel a bit water logged if I drink too much water, at the moment I am having about 2-3 L a day but sometimes I just can't drink anymore, so I have something fizzy.
By fizzy I mean soda water with something mixed in it, like fruit juice or a little cordial.
I like the sound of Lulu's mineral water though, will have to give that a go too.
i've gone off fizz big time - even the dry ginger is allowed to go flat
wondering if i can convince DH to go and pick some lemons and maybe i'll make up an iced lemon water drink - see how that sits... the acidic lemon might attack the nasties at the back of my tongue...
I doubt if it would be the banana if anything bananas would be really good for the health of your mouth (ever heard about eating a banana at the first sign of a mouth ulcer?). The white coating is dead skin cells and bacteria. I guess your diet is contributing to this... but what is on your tongue is not actually cheese... it's dead cells and bacteria.
ETA: have you been on anti-biotics or immune suppressant drugs lately?
A dental hygienist mentioned this in another forum: ...you're doing the right thing by brushing it daily (your dr. probably suggested that because he suspected poor oral hygiene).....otherwise, don't eat a lot of dairy products, if you are. The dairy could bring out the candida in your mouth, making the overgrowth worse.
Last edited by Bathsheba; October 22nd, 2008 at 04:22 PM.
the only thing different to pre-preg is the blackmores ms tabs - which are ginger and vit b6
i'm thinking more the cheese is adding to the imbalance as it's more dairy than my body is used to (hope that makes sense)
normally, i might have a small serve of cheese once a week and only milk in my cuppa. it's something i don't have a lot of cos i have IBS which dairy messes with
come to think of it, my belly is a bit ick at the moment too (but i've been blaming Gremlin - poor little tacker!). just asked DH to get me some grapes as well as bananas, plus the fruit we have here, hopefully it will be enough...
...forgot to say that if it's thrush (a yeast outbreak) then garlic (if you can stomach that) would help.
Make sure you get enough calcium though... oranges are a good source...as well as sardines (if you can stomach them)... from what you are saying you might be getting low on calcium which hasn't got anything to do with your white tongue issue but will affect you in other ways... you might find that you start getting leg cramps for example... now THAT's something you really dont want believe me!!! A very common thing in pregnancy.
Bath - i'm an oddity in human form - i actually got told a couple of years ago to reduce as much calcium intake as possible (within reason of course) as i have calcified lymph nodes in my stomach and underarms - i also had a bone chip lodge in the muscle at the front of my ankle and it grew into a full blown bone that had to be removed... so calcium wise, i've generally on the safe side! my body obviously processed what i have taken in really well! i won't cut it out all together, but will cut back and see if it makes a difference....
am a no go on oranges (trigger migraines - except blood oranges which i can't get locally - so am growing them myself), sardines are a definite no go - and garlic isn't the best at the moment either...
Do you think it could be candida then?
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if anything bananas would be really good for the health of your mouth (ever heard about eating a banana at the first sign of a mouth ulcer?). The white coating is dead skin cells and bacteria. I guess your diet is contributing to this... but what is on your tongue is not actually cheese... it's dead cells and bacteria.
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