Fruit makes me nauseous?
 

I have no idea if I'm posting in the right place, but I want to know if anyone else feels nauseous after eating fruit? I love fruit but wow. I can't eat it at all without feeling like I'm going to get sick.

If this is in the wrong forum I'm sure someone can move it to the correct one?

Wow, I've not heard of this before. I even tried googling a few things and didn't get any satisfactory results.

My sister gets nausea and indigestion problems from nerves ... she has no stress outlet so she turns it inward. Maybe the problem is something like that?

I was wondering if it could be something like that, but it's always only after i eat fruit.

Thanks for the reply!

My husband can't eat raw apples. They just make him feel like pukin'. He can eat cooked and has no trouble with peaches or plums, nectarines, bananas ... He's just always been like that.

The fiber is probably hard on your stomach. Fiber-dense fruits like apples are hard for me to take sometimes, too. Cooked fruit is one compromise you could try.

What types of fruit have you tried and noticed this effect?

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do you have an ulcer, i get that way from my ulcer

also if you put fruit on an empty stomach sometimes it will do that to me because it is too much for an empty stomach and not dense enough (filling enough) to cover the gap.

If I eat fruit when I've had more to satisfy me (carb, protein, etc) I don't have as much of a problem.

Originally Posted by DeafinlySmart:
also if you put fruit on an empty stomach sometimes it will do that to me because it is too much for an empty stomach and not dense enough (filling enough) to cover the gap.

Ah yes.. my husband is like this. So he doesn't drink orange juice in the morning.. ever. He will only eat fruit after he is finished with a good breakfast.

Originally Posted by Suzanne 3FC:
What types of fruit have you tried and noticed this effect?

Strawberries, grapes, pineapple, apples. The only fruits that sit well with me are bananas and sometimes blueberries. :(

And ah! So eating fruit on an empty stomach probably isn't helping? I usually try to have some for breakfast. I'll try only having it after I've eaten something else and see if that works. Thanks everyone.

Originally Posted by sassy252:
do you have an ulcer, i get that way from my ulcer

If this keeps up I will have to get myself checked out. As far as I know, no ulcer.

Originally Posted by snuggle:
Strawberries, grapes, pineapple, apples. The only fruits that sit well with me are bananas and sometimes blueberries. :(

And ah! So eating fruit on an empty stomach probably isn't helping? I usually try to have some for breakfast. I'll try only having it after I've eaten something else and see if that works. Thanks everyone.

I could've written exactly what's above. I can only stomach bananas and blueberries... sometimes strawberries are okay, too.

I love - LOVE fruit. I have been miserable since restarting WW because my stomach issue has been worse than ever.

An empty stomach will totally make it worse, but for me even pairing fruit - or raw veggies - with carbs won't always keep me from feeling nauseated.

I've been tested for an ulcer and I am on Protonix for acid reflux. It's helped (especially with the acid -as expected), but not totally solved the problem.

Cooked veggies and dried or cooked fruits are okay. Juice is also an issue... and I never eat citrus fruit anymore, ever. Not only will it make me nauseated, it will create this awful aftertaste that I deal with for the rest of the day. That's so bad I can't even have Diet Sprite anymore!

I wish I had an answer for you, but I don't have one for me, either. All I know is I a) avoid fruit at all costs first thing in the am, b) try to eat raw fruits only with carbs - a muffin, crackers, toast, etc... and c) avoid the kind that bothers me no matter what!

Good luck... I'm probably going to be tested for an NSAID caused ulcer. I don't have the common kind caused by bacteria. However, I have overused Advil and Aleve in the past, so it might be the cause of my agony.

So overuse of Advil can cause something like this?

I will try to only eat fruit with toast or a muffin now. :)

Another reason fruit alone can be a problem is the sugars. Fruit can make me sick, if I eat a breakfast of fruit with nothing else - but for me, I've learned it is the sugars. Pancakes, doughnuts, sweetrolls, etc, - do the same only much, much, worse. Even as a kid, I could eat pancakes for dinner, but not for supper (and bacon or sausage didn't help, not enough protein to help and fat only seems to make it worse).

I always make sure I eat a little protein with fruit if I'm having it on an empty stomache, especially mornings, which seem the worst.

Also, if it's the fiber, eating it in very small quantities, and building your size and number of daily servings up gradually can help alot.

oops, I meant lunch or supper, but not breakfast.

Advil, motrin, ibuprophen ... all aspirin derivitives. And hard on your stomach, yes. You should not take them on an empty stomach.

If any of you have been taking decongestants for a long time (years, not just a few days/weeks), that can also potentially cause digestive problems. I have severe allergies and took Claritan-D for probably close to ten years. Several years ago, I noticed that eating certain foods made me feel nauseaus. It started with certain nuts, but then the list of foods I couldn't eat started getting longer and longer, including cheese and eggs even. I didn't have an allergic reaction to the foods, they just made me feel slightly nauseaus. At the end, even just the smell of peanuts would do it to me. The nausea would last all day, sometimes for a couple of days.

Then I went to see an allergist for other medical issues and the first thing he did was take me off the Claritan-D. Apparently decongestants work by constricting your blood vessels. That's great for your sinuses, but when you are taking a pill like Claritan-D, it isn't able to target just your sinuses. Instead, it constricts your blood vessels all over your body, including in your digestive tract. So people who have been on decongestants for a long time sometimes start having digestive trouble.

After going off Claritan-D, my digestive troubles went away within a week. I can now eat all the foods I wasn't able to eat before (except raw onions, but that's a different issue).

- Barbara

Hi Snuggle, I have the same problem and have been suffering for years now. I can't eat any fruit or salad without feeling sick. Sometimes leads to actual vomit. It has been years since you posted this issue, I am wondering if you have found a cure yet or at least a way to control it.
I'm really sad cause I used to love fruit. My weight has balooned cos I can't substitute my food with fresh fruit or vegetables

Fruit is full of sugar as well as each fruit having its own chemicals which it produces to protect itself. They are called antinutrients.

Here is a page of info about what it is in the food you might be reacting to:

http://www.plantpoisonsandrottenstuf...reference.aspx

Many folks find that eating fruit with something with fat in it, such as cream, makes it easier to digest. I noticed, when I lived in Europe, that fresh berries were usually served with cream or cheese.

The insecticides, fungicides, waxes, etc., used on the plants and fruit could also be a trouble.

I know several who can eat frozen, canned or cooks fruits, but some of the fresh ones cause problems.

This paper at Barry Groves' site, on cooked food, might be of interest:

http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/cooking-1.html

Hope these are a help.

The only time I've ever noticed a problem with fruit is if I try to eat an apple on an empty stomach. That makes me feel awful! (not nauseous, just... even mor hungry I guess)

Allergy? Acid level? Pesticide residue? Here's the dirty dozen card:

http://www.foodnews.org/walletguide.php

HTH!
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I'm actually allergic to some foods. I was allergy tested as a teen and the list is any fruit ending in berry, tomatoes, chocolate, and coffee.

I outgrew most of those, and am ok if I don't eat too many of those foods together. Chocolate is still the worst, but fruit still does not agree with me very well and it's the allergies, I can tell by the ache in my tummy.