antinauseants

Motion sickness pills

Antinauseants are medications that prevent or relieve nausea and vomiting.

The term covers drugs used for motion sickness, chemotherapy side effects, morning sickness, or post-surgical queasiness: The doctor prescribed antinauseants before her first round of chemo.

Also called antiemetics.

medications

scopolamine

Tropane alkaloid for nausea

doxylamine

conditions

motion sickness

Nausea from perceived movement

vertigo · food poisoning · stomach flu · migraines · pregnancy · radiation therapy · altitude sickness · car sickness · airsickness · labyrinthitis

symptoms

queasiness

Mild stomach disturbance

heaving · emesis · biliousness · stomach upset · dizziness · cold sweats · pallor · salivation · dry heaves · wooziness

remedies

ginger

Pungent culinary rhizome

bland diet · herbal tea · flat soda · toast · rice · bananas · applesauce · small meals · probiotics · chamomile

Opposites
pharmacological effect

antinauseantsemetics

Substances causing vomiting

ipecac · syrup of ipecac

therapeutic purpose

antinauseantsemetics

Substances causing vomiting

purgatives · cathartics · expectorants

Family

antinauseant

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Rated G