No one really knows why women get morning sickness during their first trimester (and for some throughout their whole pregnancies), but there are some guesses out there, and there are treatments that can help you.

The most common hypothesis on the cause of morning sickness is the obvious: hormones. Increased estrogen and hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) increase rapidly and sort of throw the body off-balance. This is why you’re always tired, moody, and why your stomach gets queasy.

Also, since your sense of smell heightens during your first trimester, an egg no longer just smells like an egg, but smells like a very, very, very egg-y egg, which can make you want to throw up.

Another potential cause of morning sickness is heartburn. As with everything during early pregnancy, every physical feeling or emotion that normally you only feel a little, you begin to feel a lot. That means that unnoticeable heartburn that you may experience on a day-to-day basis all of a sudden becomes increasingly intense, so much so that you may get nauseated and throw up. To treat acid reflux disease (heartburn) you can buy Prevacid online which should take care of this cause of morning sickness.

If, of course, your morning sickness is totally hormonal and not acid related, then the Prevacid won’t really do any good, so check with your doctor and pay close attention to your symptoms to determine whether it’s intense heartburn (you should feel a burning sensation) or if it’s just plain ol’ fashioned hormones messing with your belly.

Here are some tips that can help you get your acid reflux disease under control:
•    Avoid consuming caffeine, spicy foods, tomatoes, citrus fruits, chocolate, fried foods, and fatty foods which will exacerbate heartburn.
•    Eat several small meals throughout the day rather than a few large ones.
•    Eat slowly and chew your food extremely well before swallowing.
•    Drink water in between meals rather than during them.
•    Chew gum after a meal. The saliva that’s produced while chewing helps neutralize acid.
•    Sleep propped up in order to keep acids down in your belly, making it harder for them to travel back up.
•    Wear loose clothing, particularly around your waist and stomach.
•    Try and gain weight between the recommended 25-35 pounds. Too much or too little could effect heartburn.
•    Ask your doctor for a good anti-acid medication. You may want to start out with something like Tums and then move on to something more serious if that doesn’t work, like Prevacid. (You can buy generic Prevacid online at discounted rates.)
•    Quit smoking—always good advice, especially for a pregnant woman!
•    Eat at least three hours before bedtime. If you eat too close to bedtime, then your body will be forced to attempt digestion while you’re lying down, which can cause heartburn.

So how does it work?  Well we know that H. pylori or over-use of aspirin and or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, causes most stomach ulcers, and while the ulcers can be effectively treated and eliminated with antibiotics and acid suppressants as Nexium Generic, that simple regimen is unavailable to many in developing countries who are infected with H. pylori.  In this new study, the researchers found that H. pylori seems to rely on a protein called unease to attach to and infect the stomach lining.  So they used vaccine-making technology and injected chickens with unease then allowed the chickens’ immune systems to produce the antibody, and harvested it from their eggs.  They then tested the theory on 42 people who tested positive for H. pylori, who volunteered to eat two cups daily of either plain yogurt or yogurt containing the antibody for four weeks. The results indicate that the suppression of H. pylori infection in humans could be achieved by drinking yogurt fortified with urease antibody, which was eventually destroyed by stomach acid, but not before its beneficial effect was made. Although the yogurt appears less effective than antibiotics for reducing levels of H. pylori, it is a lot easier to take than medicine and can be eaten daily as part of regular dietary routine.