Nausea Help!!

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my patient has a bmi of 15 (which is abnormal) and she has very bad nausea im trying to come up with interventions to reduce the nausea so she can eat and gain weight...i have give her antiemitics, small frequent meals provide snack when giving po meds to prevent upset stomach i need 10 and im really stumped...someone told me provide oral care before meals because it helps prevent nausea has anyone heard of this? please help

Specializes in OB/GYN, Peds, School Nurse, DD.

If her BMI is 15 does her doctor suspect an eating disorder? Or is the low BMI a recent thing.

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i'd be asking the doc for a work-up re her intractable nausea.

what's up with that?

leslie

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