Despite treatment advances, nausea and vomiting, especially anticipatory nausea and vomiting, delayed nausea and vomiting and nausea alone, are still the most common, expected and feared side effects among patients receiving chemotherapy. Of the 70 to 80% of cancer patients who experience chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting many will delay or refuse future chemotherapy treatments and conte...

Chronic nausea is a prevalent but poorly described symptom in adolescents. It often co-occurs with other functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) but may also present in isolation. A multitude of triggers and complex neural pathways underlie the sensation of nausea. These include gastrointestinal and blood-borne insults, dysmotility, vestibular or central nervous system pathways, an aberra...

14 other feelings such as queasiness, weakness and gastric churning (see the Supplemental Information for details). GMA is modulated by activity from pacemaker areas of the stomach. Normal GMA oscillates at 3 cycles per minute (cpm). During either physical illness or sensations of nausea, the pattern shifts and dysrhythmias (bradygastria, 1–2.5 cpm, and tachygastria, 3.75–10 cpm) increase. Fast...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the experience and intensity of delayed nausea in women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer since the advent of the 5-HT3 antagonists. DESIGN Multisite, longitudinal, descriptive. SETTING 7 outpatient oncology clinics situated in hospitals, 5 outpatient oncology clinics associated with major teaching universities, 27 private outpatient oncology practices...

background: laparoscopic gastric plication (lgp) is a technique in the restrictive category of bariatric procedures that reduces the gastric volume. nausea and vomiting are the most common complications after this procedure. the goal of this research is to determine the preventive effective dose of promethazine on postoperative nausea and vomiting after laparascopic gastric placation methods: a...

postoperative nausea and vomiting (ponv) is one of the most common postoperative complications. aside from pharmacological interventions, other complementary healing modalities have been introduced to assist patients in decreasing ponv and improving postoperative outcomes. this study examined acupressure as a safe complement to the more traditional approach of using drugs to prevent and/or reli...