Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting

When someone is sick with a disease like cancer, they may receive treatment called chemotherapy to help make them better. This kind of treatment uses strong medicine to try and kill the bad cells that are making them sick.

But, while chemotherapy can help make them feel better in the long run, it can also make them feel pretty sick at first. One of the most common side effects of chemotherapy is something called nausea and vomiting.

Nausea is when your tummy feels like it's doing flips and turns and you feel like you might throw up. Vomiting is when you actually throw up. Both of these things can happen to people who are getting chemotherapy.

Luckily, doctors can help make people who are getting chemotherapy feel better by giving them special medicine that can help stop the nausea and vomiting. They might give them the medicine before the chemotherapy or in the days after the treatment to keep them from feeling too sick.

So even though chemotherapy can make people feel pretty sick at first, doctors have special medicine that can help make them feel better again.