Postoperative nausea and vomiting: A simple yet complex.
Abstract Despite the progress made with antiemetics, nausea and vomiting still affect a great percent of our population. Hence, the objective of this review was to gather, compare, and contrast existing scientific data about alternative non-pharmacological therapies for the management of nausea and vomiting in three different scenarios: post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV), chemotherapy.For information on the coronavirus outbreak please go to our page on coronavirus or the information on GOV.UK. Feeling sick (nausea) is common and usually goes away on its own. There are some things you can try that might help. If you're also being sick (vomiting), you could become dehydrated. See what to do if you're vomiting.Vomiting also initiates an SNS response causing both sweating and increased heart rate. The neurotransmitters that regulate vomiting are poorly understood, but inhibitors of dopamine, histamine, and serotonin are all used to suppress vomiting, suggesting that these play a role in the initiation or maintenance of a vomiting cycle.
Medical definition of vomiting: an act or instance of disgorging the contents of the stomach through the mouth —called also emesis.The term used for something that induces and causes vomiting is nausea. Nausea is caused by uneasiness in the stomach, early pregnancy symptoms, emotional stress, overeating, and food poisoning among many other causes. What is a URL? URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a term that is used to describe an address in the medical virtual library.
The timing of the nausea or vomiting can indicate the cause. When appearing shortly after a meal, nausea or vomiting may be caused by food poisoning, gastritis (inflammation of the stomach lining), an ulcer or bulimia. Nausea or vomiting one to eight hours after a meal may also indicate food poisoning.
