How To Deal With Nausea Caused By Chemotherapy

How To Deal With Nausea Caused By Chemotherapy

How do I deal with nausea caused by chemotheraphy?

Dealing with nausea is one of the bains of chemotherapy. The primary way that we try to deal with nausea is to prevent it, different chemotherapies actually have a signature which lets you predict how much nausea they will cause. There's a chemotherapy called vinchristin which causes almost no nausea it's commonly used in leukaemia or lymphoma. There's another chemotherapy called sisplatin which is used in lung and, head and neck cancer which is notorious at higher doses. So the first thing to deal with nausea is that your oncologist will try to prevent it with potent medicines based on the type of chemotherapy that you're receiving. There's some other tricks you can use as well, some people find that pungent odours really make nausea worse so they'll choose to take the cover off their food and let it sit awhile before eating or avoid they'll certain restaurants. There are also certain medicines that can rescue nausea, so you try to prevent it, you avoid certain situations which may trigger it and then there are medicines that can shut down nausea before it gets worse, before it leads to vomiting.