Chemotherapy treatment of malignant diseases called special preparations. People are often sick during chemotherapy. But this does not happen in all patients. Different drugs and different treatment regimens may appear or not appear nausea.
Is it possible to prevent nausea and vomiting during chemotherapy?
Yes. There is a whole range of means to prevent nausea. It happens that it is necessary to appoint several antiemetic drugs.
What can you do at home?
- If your doctor has prescribed antiemetics, make sure you take them. Even if you do not bother, take a prophylactic measure. This nausea is easier to prevent than to cure.
- Drink plenty of fluids. Vomiting easily causes dehydration. The treatment dehydration hurts more than usual. Symptoms of dehydration can be very thirsty, full of urine, unusual fatigue, dizziness and confusion.
- Divide each half receiving food and eats separately each part. Do not three meals and six.
- Decide in advance how much food you need to eat before treatment to this day. All carry the food in different ways. Someone needs to advance a square meal, and someone the worse.
- Avoid spicy, fatty and fried foods. The more lean and soft food is, the less likely that she will not like your stomach.
- After the chemotherapy session for at least one hour did not eat.
- Eat slowly. The stomach can react with nausea and vomiting, a sharp stretching. Let it be filled gradually.
- It is better if someone else will cook your food. The smell of preparing meals too often makes people sick.
- It is believed that supplementation with ginger may slightly reduce such nausea. This is not some kind of eccentricities in style healthy lifestyle! Just a rare case when the grass really helps in a particular health problem. The effect of this drug is not too pronounced, but it is. And from the ginger is usually little harm.
- Any alternative means such as acupuncture are also sometimes help. Ask your doctor, and you may need something to recommend.
When to see a doctor?
- When after chemotherapy generally no food is retained in the stomach.
- When nausea and vomiting by themselves antiemetic tablets.
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