The Effect of Ginger Powder Drinking on Nausea and Vomiting in Cancer Patient’s receiving Chemotherapy in Male Surgical Ward 2
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Background: Nausea and vomiting are the most common side effects experienced by cancer patients who received chemotherapy which caused potentially unnecessary suffering and affected their quality of life.
Objective: To study the efficacy of a powdered ginger drink in the prevention of specific side effects of chemotherapy by comparing the severity of nausea and vomiting scores and the incidence of nausea and vomiting in cancer patients during chemotherapy.
Methods: The cohort in this experimental study included patients with gastrointestinal and urinary tract cancer who underwent chemotherapy according to the inclusion criteria. Forty men admitted to the Male Surgical Ward 2, Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital between June 2016 and June 2017 were enrolled onto the study. On the first admission for a course of chemotherapy, the patients received routine nursing care. On the second admission for chemotherapy the same group of patients received a ginger powder drink four times a day. The severity of nausea and vomiting score and the incidence of nausea and vomiting during receipt of the chemotherapy were collected pre and 7 days post the experimental procedures. The data were then used to compare the level of suffering and the incidence of nausea and vomiting before and after the use of the ginger powder drinks using the Wilcoxon’s rank sum test
Results: Forty cancer patients were included in this study. The post-experiment suffering score showed a statistically significant decrease: 0 (0-5.29) VS 0.71 (0.29-5.86); p<0.001. The post-experimental incidence of nausea and vomiting also had a statistically significantly lower level than the pre experiment data: 0 (0-6.86) VS 0.64 (0.14-6.57); p<0.001.
Conclusion: The ingestion of a ginger powder drink led to a statistically significant reduction in the levels of suffering and the incidence of nausea and vomiting in cancer patients during receipt of chemotherapy.
Key words: Ginger powder; nausea and vomiting; chemotherapy
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