How to relieve vomiting after chemotherapy

Many patients will experience vomiting after chemotherapy. This is a side effect of chemotherapy. Although medical technology is advanced now, there is no effective solution to this phenomenon. Therefore, chemotherapy as a method of treating the disease has brought great torture to many patients. Everyone can only take some measures to reduce the harm caused by vomiting to patients. Many patients cannot tolerate the vomiting after treatment and give up treatment. If a series of problems that arise after chemotherapy can be controlled, it will not only be beneficial to the treatment of the patient's condition, but also enable the patient to face the harm caused by the disease optimistically. So how to relieve vomiting after chemotherapy, I hope the following introduction will be helpful to you.

Introduction to methods to relieve vomiting

1. Avoiding eating here does not mean that the patient should not eat food. To be precise, it means that the patient should not eat any food within half an hour before chemotherapy. Everyone knows that chemotherapy drugs can irritate the digestive tract and affect its normal motility. Avoiding eating half an hour before chemotherapy is to reduce the violent reaction of food in the digestive tract.

2. Cancer patients should eat light, warm and delicious meals after chemotherapy, eat small meals frequently and avoid fasting. If chemotherapy patients eat spicy foods, coupled with the stimulation of chemotherapy drugs, the symptoms of nausea and vomiting will become more serious, so try to eat light, warm foods. Not only that, cancer patients should avoid fasting. If there is no food in the gastrointestinal tract, the symptoms of nausea and vomiting will be more obvious.

3. Cancer patients should slowly drink a cup of hot drink 30 minutes before meals. Note that fresh fruit juice is best for hot drinks. Patients after chemotherapy suffer from severe gastrointestinal irritation. Taking a cup of hot drink before meals can help promote gastrointestinal blood circulation, reduce gastrointestinal irritation, and help patients relieve symptoms of nausea and vomiting.

4. Cancer patients should get enough sleep after chemotherapy, so as to ensure the normal immune function of the body and achieve the effect of self-defense against nausea and vomiting. In addition, adequate sleep is also beneficial to the self-regulation of nervous function and can effectively alleviate the symptoms of nausea and vomiting.

Therefore, cancer patients during chemotherapy should pay special attention to the care during the period and try to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy. This will not only help your recovery, but also reduce the pain of chemotherapy.