Nausea is when you feel sick to your stomach, as if you are going to throw up. Vomiting is when you throw up.
What causes nausea and vomiting?
Nausea and vomiting can be symptoms of many different conditions, including:
Morning sickness during pregnancy
Gastroenteritis (infection of your intestines) and other infections
Migraines
Motion sickness
Food poisoning
Medicines, including those for cancer chemotherapy
GERD (reflux) and ulcers
Intestinal obstruction
When do I need to see a health care provider for nausea and vomiting?
Nausea and vomiting are common. They are usually not serious. However, you should contact your health care provider immediately if you have:
A reason to think that your vomiting is from poisoning
Vomited for longer than 24 hours
Blood in the vomit
Severe abdominal pain
Severe headache and stiff neck
Signs of dehydration, such as dry mouth, infrequent urination or dark urine
How is the cause of nausea and vomiting diagnosed?
Your health care provider will take your medical history, ask about your symptoms and do a physical exam. The provider will look for signs of dehydration. You may have some tests, including blood and urine tests. Women may also have a pregnancy test.
What are the treatments for nausea and vomiting?
Treatments for nausea and vomiting depend on the cause. You may get treatment for the underlying problem. There are some medicines that can treatment nausea and vomiting. For severe cases of vomiting, you may need extra fluids through an IV (intravenous).
There are things that you can do to feel better:
Get enough fluids, to avoid dehydration. If you are having trouble keeping liquids down, drink small amounts of clear liquids often.
Eat bland foods; stay away from spicy, fatty, or salty foods
Eat smaller meals more often
Avoid strong smells, since they can sometimes trigger nausea and vomiting
If you are pregnant and have morning sickness, eat crackers before you get out of bed in the morning
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Home Remedies for Nausea
NAUSEA Infuse fresh ginger with hot water, strain and freeze the liquid in ice cube trays. Break cubes into chips and suck on as needed.Jack | November 4th, 2017
WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.
Felter's Materia Medica on Nausea
ALLIUM CEPA The fresh bulb of Allium Cepa, Linné (Nat. Ord. Liliaceae). Common in cultivation
everywhere.
Common Name: Onion.
Principal Constituent.A... / ...rsons. If given in moderate quantities it is very soothing; if too freely
administered it may cause nausea and disorder digestion. It, together
with the onion poultice, are among the good things inher... / ...pus, and mucus. The dose is from 5 to 10 drops in water. It is
sometimes given with an equal quantity of tincture of Xanthium
Strumarium.
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AMYGDALUS PERSICA The leaves and bark of the twigs of Amygdalus Persica, Linné (Nat. Ord. Rosaceae).
Native to Persia. Cultivated everywhere.
Common Name: Peach... / ...h
irritation and congestion, and pointed tongue with reddened tip and
edges and prominent papillae, nausea, and vomiting.
Therapy.Used according to indications as given above, the infusion
is a reli... / ...It is of less value for cough than wild cherry or
hydrocyanic acid. For the latter the infusion or the specific medicine
may be used.
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ANISUM (Pimpinella anisum)PIAN3 The dried ripe fruit of Pimpinella Anisum, Linné (Nat. Ord. Umbelliferae). Egypt and
Western Asia; cultivated in Southern Europe. Dose, 5 to 40... / ... and Therapy.Anise is an agreeable stimulating carminative
employed principally for the relief of nausea, flatulency, and the
flatulent colic of infants. Anise imparts its odor to the milk of nursin... / ...hot water is more agreeable and effective for older
children and adults. The oil (1 to 5 drops) on sugar may be used by the
latter, if desired.
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APOCYNUM CANNABINUM The root of Apocynum cannabinum, Linné (Nat. Ord. Apocynaceae) gathered in
autumn after the leaves and fruit have matured. Grows throughout the... / ...cularly the work of Horatio C. Wood,
Jr. The general effects upon man of full doses of apocynum are nausea,
and sometimes vomiting and purging, succeeded by copious sweating.
The pulse is then depress... / ...may be looked for. Under these circumstances we have
removed enormous dropsical swellings with it, giving quick relief from
dyspnea and1
ARNICA MONTANA The dried flower-heads of Arnica montana, Linné (Nat. Ord. Compositae). A
perennial of Siberia and the cooler parts of Europe; also found in... / ... reversely
and paralyze the vagal centers. Intermediate but large doses produce
heat in the throat, nausea and vomiting, dyspnea, headache, lowering
of temperature, and sometimes convulsive movements....1
ASPIDIUM The rhizome of Dryopteris Filix-mas and of Dryopteris marginalis, Asa Gray (Nat.
Ord. Filices). World-wide ferns of the Northern Hemispheres.... / ...nce a day. Do not give with oils.
Action and Toxicology.When freely absorbed the oleoresin causes
nausea, vomiting, purging, severe abdominal pain, headache,
dizziness, muscular prostration, tremors...1
CAMPHORA A stearopten (having the nature of a ketone) derived from Cinnamomum Camphora.
(Linné), Nees et Ebermeier (Nat. Ord. Lauraceae). China and... / ...ren, being frequently
most effective as a nerve sedative, antispasmodic, and carminative in
nervous nausea and vomiting, flatulence, hiccough, and tendency to
spasms or fainting. It is especially serv...1
CARBO LIGNI Charcoal prepared by burning soft wood. It must be kept in tightly-closed vessels.
Common Names: Charcoal, Wood Charcoal; Synonym: Carbo... / ...cated by offensive breath and disagreeable belching. In acidity of
the stomach, gastric distention, nausea and vomiting, sick headache
with gaseous belching, fetid diarrhcea, and sometimes in the acid... / ...the belly-wall
tumid and doughy, the tongue expressionless and pale with little
coating and lenticular spots, or the coating may lift in patches.1
CARYOPHYLLUS The unexpanded flowers (dried flower-buds) of Eugenia aromatica (Linné), O Kuntze.
(Jambosa Caryophyllus (Sprengel) Niedenzu). (Nat. Ord.... / ...ay be used to kill pediculi.
Internal. Oil of clove is carminative and stomachic. It often relieves
nausea and vomiting, gastric pain, and flatulent distention of stomach
or bowels. When cardiac palpi...1
CHIONANTHUS The bark of the root of Chionanthus virginicus, Linné. (Nat. Ord. Oleaceae.) United
States from Pennsylvania southward. Dose, 5 to 30... / ...h
hepatic tenderness and expressionless eyes; intense cutting pain from
liver to navel, attended by nausea, vomiting, and great prostration;
icteric coloration without pain; the urine stains the cloth... / ...never reach
the true diabetic state. There is good reason to believe that the
prolonged use of chionanthus will be of much benefit in such cases.1
COCCULUS The seeds of Anamirta panniculata, Colebrooke (Nat. Ord. Menispermaceae.) East
India.
Common Names: Fishberries, Indian Berries. Synonym: Cocculus... / ...uantity.
Internal. Homeopaths use an attenuation of the tincture of cocculus as
a remedy to prevent nausea and sickness incident to travel by rail or
upon water (meralgia or sea sickness).
Cocculus is...1
COLCHICUMCOLCH The dried (I) root and (II) seed of Colchicum autumnale, Linné (Nat. Ord. Liliaceae.)
England and other parts of Europe. Dose, Corm, 1 to 5... / ... of the skin, kidneys,
liver, and bowels. Large doses are dangerous, producing gastric
discomfort, nausea and vomiting and purging, and violent peristalsis
with much intestinal gurgling. Poisonous do...1
COLOCYNTHIS The dried, peeled pulp of the fruit of Citrullus Colocynthis (Linné,) Schrader. (Nat.
Ord. Cucurbitaceae.) Mediterranean basin of Europe, Asia,... / ... disturbances of breathing, or cardiac palpitation, with loud
belching and expulsion of flatus, and nausea and vomiting are present,
colocynth should be given with prospects of prompt relief. Rx. Spec... / ...of the fifth nerve, when the characteristic cutting
pain prevails. It should be given also when colicky pain precedes or
accompanies amenorrhoea.1
CONIUM The full grown fruit, gathered green, of Conium maculatum, Linné (Nat. Ord.
Umbelliferae). Europe and Asia; naturalized in the United... / ...cle or nerves appreciably affected.
Full doses of conium produce dryness of the throat and thirst, nausea,
dizziness, sinking at the stomach, numbness, muscular relaxation,
and depression of the circ... / ...be applied and be given to relieve pain even
when a cure is not possible. It relieves the pain of swollen mammae
during the menstrual periods a1
COPAIBACOOF2 An oleoresin derived from species of Copaiba growing in South
America. Dose, 5 to 30 drops.
Description.A viscid, pale-yellow or brownish-yellow... / ...e mucous discharges. When
swallowed it causes gastric warmth, unpleasant eructations, and
sometimes nausea and vomiting. Continued use impairs the digestive
processes. It is readily absorbed, impartin...1
WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.
Physician's Materia Medica on Nausea
AMERICAN HELLEBORE The rhizome and root of VERATRUM VIRIDE, Solander. Cardiac
- depressant. having remarkable power to reduce the pulse in fever.
Its most- important use is in controlling blood pressure in aortic an
eurism, in cerebral hyperemia and in certain heart affections. Apt
to cause nausea unless combined with an opiate. Produces best ef
fects when doses are frequently repeated. Dose 0.06 to 0.2 Grm. (1 to
3 grs-).2
ANISEMYOD The fruit of PIMPINELLA Amsmvr, Lin. Stimulant, aromatic,
anodyne, carminative, reputed galactagogue. Especially useful in
infantile colic and as a remedy for nausea.2
ANTIMONY Compounds of Antimony are irritant poisons producing specifi
cally depression of the nervous and circulatory systems, nausea and
diaphoresis. They are now used chiefly as diaphoretiw, expectorants
and alteratives.
a. Antimony and Potassium Tartrate (Tartar Emetic).
Dose, as an alterative, 0.001 to 0.004 Grm. (1-50 to 1-15 gr.); as an expectorant,
0.005 to 0.010 Grm. (1-12 to 1-6 gr.); as a nauseant diaphore
tic, 0.01 to 0.03 Grm. (1-6 to 1-2 gr.); as an emetic, 0.06 Grm. (1 gr.) re
peated if ne2
AROMATIC POWDER A mixture of stimulant aromatics useful as a carminative for re
lief of nausea or simply as a flavoring agent. Made up of Ceylon Cin
namon, 35 parts; Ginger, 35 parts; Cardamom 15 parts; Nutmeg, 15
parts. Dose, 0.6 to 2 Grm. (10 to 30 grs.).2
BONESET (Eupatorium)TAMAU2 The leaves and flowering tops of EUPATORIU M PERFOLIATUM,
Lin. Tonic, diaphoretic, febrifuge. in large doses laxative and
nauseant or emetic. The remedy deserves more attention than it
has received, its range of use being essentially the same as that of
Matricaria.2
COCAINE Alkaloid derived from COCA LEAVES. A powerful local anesthet
ic. Prescribed for relief of nausea and gastralgia, and for its local
action in affections of the throat, in hay fever and in hemorrhoids.
Dose, 0.008 to 0.03 Grm. (% to % gr.) or more. The Hydrochloride is
the salt commonly used.2
COLCHICUMCOLCH The corm, also the seed of COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE. Lin. Pur
gative, diuretic, diaphoretic, nauseant. Prescribed especially in
gout, in which disease it is our most important remedial agent.
Dose of the seed or root in substance, 0.13 to 0.5 Grm. (2 to 8
grs.).2
CRE0SOTE Antiseptic, germicide, analgesic. Used to relieve nausea, in
treatment of tuberculosis and locally as a remedy for toothache.
Dose, 0.03 to 0.30 c. c. (1/2 to 5 M), or more.2
HENBANE (Hyoscyamus)HYOSC The leaves of HYOSCYAMUS NIGER, Lin. Anodyne, antispasmodic,
hypnotic. Often prescribed in acute mania, hypochondriasis, de
lirium tremens, dementia accompanied with excitement; in cough
mixtures; associated with cathartics to prevent griping; as a sedative
for children. taking the place of opium; for nausea of pregnancy,
etc. Contains Hyoscine, q. v., as its most important active constituent
(associated with Hyoscyamine and Atropine). Dose, 0.3 to 1.0
Grm. (5 to 15 grs.).2
PEACHPRPE3 The leaves of AMYGDALUS PERSICA, Lin. Sedative, aperient,
diuretic. Used to allay vesical irritation, in whooping cough and
for relief of nausea.2
WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.
Physician's Therapeutics Memoranda on Nausea
NAUSEA Soda mint, seltzer water or water containing a little sodium bicarbonate and common salt will often relieve.2
References
1) Felter, Harvey Wickes, 1922, The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Cincinnati, Ohio. 2) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.
