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How to find an appetite when dealing with chemotherapy and nausea

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This is the fourth article in a MyDietExercise.com series on how to beat cancer through diet and exercise from our Expert, Doctor Amy Thomas. You can read her first post here.  Nausea is a dreadful and dangerous complication of chemotherapy. Although everyone's response is differen...
  1. Chemotherapy and Vomiting
    brentblueMD
    Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 04:05 PM

    One thing I found helpful for the nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy agents is the ReliefBand. It is a FDA approved device which is worn on the wrist which stimulates the P-6 meridian (an accupunture point known as the median nerve in western medicine). It slows the peristalic waves in the stomach and really helps the nausea. It also will work after the nausea starts which most medications will not. In our experience, about 70% of the users get complete releif with the other 30% getting partial to no relief.

     

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  2. Chemotherapy and Vomiting
    brentblueMD
    Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 05:50 PM

    One thing I found helpful for the nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy agents is the ReliefBand. It is a FDA approved device which is worn on the wrist which stimulates the P-6 meridian (an accupunture point known as the median nerve in western medicine). It slows the peristalic waves in the stomach and really helps the nausea. It also will work after the nausea starts which most medications will not. In our experience, about 70% of the users get complete releif with the other 30% getting partial to no relief.

     

    Brent Blue MD

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    Herminio da costa
    Tuesday, December 02, 2008 at 05:18 PM

    Hi,

    I am hermy and am having chemotherapy treatment for Lung and secondary liver cancer, one of the side efects of the treatment suppose to be a lack of apetite, but its the oposite with me, never eating so much in my life and i am not putting any extra weigth on, is it good or bad?

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