What medications are used to treat and prevent nausea and vomiting?
You will get medicine that you will take on a schedule to prevent nausea and vomiting. These may include Ondansetron and Dexamethasone. You may also be given Stemetil, which you can take ‘as needed’ when you feel sick. In some rare cases, these medicines will not work as well as they should. If this happens, your doctor will prescribe other medicine to help control your nausea and vomiting. Suppositories will be prescribed if you are not able to keep pills down. How is nausea and vomiting managed? At the time of your chemotherapy, you will be given anti-nausea medicine. This should prevent nausea and vomiting for 8 to 12 hours. To help make this medication more effective: • Use your anti-nausea medicine regularly for the first day (24 hours) after your treatment. In some cases you should continue using the medicine for up to 3 to 5 days. • Lie down or rest in a chair. Sometimes nausea can get worse if you are active. • Take the anti-nausea medicine even if you dont feel sick. It is har
