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What to do when your medication causes nausea
Taking your pills with a light snack or at bedtime may help reduce the nausea.
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What to do when your medication causes nausea
Taking your pills with a light snack or at bedtime may help reduce the nausea. Updated: July 31, 2019
Published: May, 2017
You take medication hoping it will make you feel better. But sometimes it makes you feel worse. " Nausea is one of the most common side effects of medications we hear about," says Joanne Doyle Petrongolo, a pharmacist at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital. About nausea
Nausea is a queasy feeling in your stomach — you may feel seasick, or you may feel you're about to vomit. Medications that commonly cause nausea as a side effect include antibiotics, such as erythromycin (Erythrocin); aspirin; nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) or naproxen (Aleve);