If you experience nausea and vomiting as a side effect of your cancer chemotherapy, your doctor can help by prescribing antinausea drugs. These drugs can be administered orally, intravenously, or via a patch or suppository. In addition to taking...
Adjuvant chemotherapy is given to cancer patients after surgery to remove a primary tumor. Its job is killing unseen cancer cells, according to the American Cancer Society. Adjuvant chemotherapy can also be given after radiation therapy. Like...
Certain types of chemotherapy agents used to treat cancer also cause nausea and vomiting in many patients. The frequency of nausea and/or vomiting, also known as emesis, depends on the chemotherapy type, with high risk drugs causing emesis 90...
Nausea is an uneasy and uncomfortable feeling that usually accompanies vomiting. Nausea can occur as a result of food poisoning, a brain tumor and certain medications among other reasons. It can be acute or it can be chronic depending upon its...
Nausea and vomiting are two of the most dreaded side effects of chemotherapy, according to the American Cancer Society, but patients do not have to just suffer. Antiemetic drugs are medications that can prevent or inhibit nausea and vomiting for...
Geodon (ziprasidone) is a medication used to manage such psychiatric illnesses as schizophrenia (condition in which you hallucinate) and the euphoric stage of bipolar disorder, a mental disease characterized by fluctuating depression and extreme...
Antiemetic drugs are medicines that help control nausea and vomiting. According to Medicine Net, over-the-counter antiemetics are designed for mild nausea or motion sickness. If you have more severe nausea and vomiting, your healthcare provider...
