BACKGROUND Good clinical evidence has been reported for the effect of PC6 acupuncture in preventing or attenuating postoperative and pregnancy related nausea. Our primary aim was to examine whether PC6 acupuncture during a period of chemotherapy could complement pharmacological treatment of nausea in cancer patients in the palliative stage of their disease. METHOD We conducted a prospective o...

Background & aim: Nausea and vomiting are among the most common complaints during pregnancy observed in patients with severe pregnancy outcomes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy (NVP) with some pregnancy complications. Methods: This cross-secti...

Background Most pregnant women suffer from nausea and vomiting during pregnancy (NVP) as one of the common discomforts compelling women to increasingly turn to herbal medications for help, including lemon inhalation aromatherapy as investigated in the current systematic review and meta-analysis. We aimed to evaluate the effect of aromatherapy on relieving nausea and vomiting during pregnancy....

s:1459:"Background: During their first trimester, 50-90% of women experience nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy decrease the ability of functioning, that the effect of this limitation is associated with severity of the symptoms. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of the severity of nausea on the quality of life. Materials and Methods: In this analytic...

Background: Considering nausea and vomiting are a common complaint of pregnancy. Most non-medication therapy and complementary and alternative medicine were preferred to reduce it in recent years. The aim of our study is to determine the effect of acupressure (on point KID21) on nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. Materials and Methods : This single blind clinical trial study was performed on 80 ...

BACKGROUND The factors related to the treatment of nausea during pregnancy have not yet been investigated in several countries simultaneously. The present study aimed to describe differences in self-reported nausea during pregnancy and the patterns of use for both conventional and herbal medicines across countries. The factors related to nausea and its treatment and the relationships between di...

Many patients receiving cancer chemotherapy become nauseated as they anticipate their treatments. We studied this phenomenon in eighteen cancer chemotherapy patients. The eight patients who reported pretreatment nausea had more extensive disease than the other patients and had received twice as much chemotherapy. In most cases pretreatment nausea developed only a after a number of months of tre...