Nausea is one of the most miserable — and unfortunately common —afflictions in the human experience. Fortunately, there are home remedies for nausea that can provide relief.
Nausea is that unmistakable feeling something is wrong, and can come with vomiting, abdominal pain, reflux, constipation and diarrhea.
It can be caused by everything from pregnancy, food poisoning or motion sickness to gastrointestinal issues, neurologic conditions, migraines and inner ear problems.
But the No. 1 cause is usually the side effect of medications, says Dr. Sydney Pomenti, a gastroenterologist and assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York.
She’s been seeing more patients complaining of nausea since weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound , and Type 2 diabetes treatments like Ozempic and Mounjaro have become popular. Nausea is one of their most common side effects, partly because the medications slow down stomach emptying.
“For weight loss, more and more people are taking them,” Pomenti tells TODAY.com. “(There’s) certainly an uptick in patients with nausea and other GI complaints that go with it.”
Nausea can just be a benign symptom, but in some cases, it can be a sign of something more serious like appendicitis or Crohn’s disease, says Dr. Tochi Iroku-Malize, board chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians.“At any given point in time in their life, somebody has felt nauseous,” Iroku-Malize, chair of family medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell on Long Island, New York, tells TODAY.com.“Sometimes it’s just mild, and […]
5 home remedies to get rid of nausea and doctor’s No. 1 pick for relief
