Ginger Reduces Chemo Nausea Study

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> Ginger Reduces Chemotherapy Nausea, Study

> http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/150176.php

> Written by: Catharine Paddock, PhD

>

> Taking ginger supplements with standard anti-vomiting drugs beforehand can

> reduce the nausea that often accompanies chemotherapy treatment by 40 per

> cent according to a new US study.

>

> The phaseII/III study was done at the University of Rochester Medical

> Center and is to be presented on 30 May in the Patient and Survivor Care

> Session at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Orlando,

Florida.

>

> Lead author Dr , assistant professor of Dermatology and

> Radiation Oncology in the P Wilmot Cancer Center at Rochester told the

press

> that:

>

> " There are effective drugs to control vomiting, but the nausea is often

> worse because it lingers. "

>

> Estimates suggest about 70 per cent of cancer patients undergoing

> chemotherapy experience nausea and vomiting.

>

> said nausea is a major problem for patients and a challenge for

> doctors and scientists working to try and find ways to understand and control

> it.

>

> While other studies have looked at the effect of ginger supplements on

> easing nausea they have been small and the results inconsistent: this is the

> largest randomized study to show the effectiveness of ginger and the first

> to focus on taking the supplement before the chemotherapy.

>

> For the placebo-controlled, double blind study (that is neither the

> patients nor the doctors knew who had the active ingredient and who had the

> placebo), the researchers recruited 644 cancer patients who were scheduled to

> have at least 3 chemotherapy treatments.

>

> The patients were randomly assigned to one of four groups: one group took

> placebo, another took 0.5 grams of ginger, a third took 1 gram of ginger,

> and the fourth group took 1.5 grams of ginger. Everyone on the trial also

> took anti-vomiting drugs (eg Zofran, Kytril, Novaban, or Anzemet).

>

> The patients took the supplements in capsule form once a day for six days,

> starting 3 days before their first cycle of chemotherapy. They were asked

> to report their levels of nausea four times a day for the first four days

> after their chemotherapy finished.

>

> They reported their nausea level on a 7-point scale where 1 was no nausea

> and 7 was the the worst possible nausea.

>

> The researchers found that at the end of the first day, the patients on

> the lowest two doses of ginger supplement scored their nausea level at 1 or

> 2, whereas the patients on placebo were scoring it at level 4 or 5. This was

> a 40 per cent reduction in nausea level on the lowest doses, which was

> maintained for the four days of the study.

>

> The higher dose of ginger did not show as good a result.

>

> told WebMD that she expects the effects will last longer than the

> four days they studied. People are less likely to have bad nausea on

> subsequent days if their first day is not so bad, she said.

>

> said in theory food or drink that has one quarter to one half

> teaspoon of fresh or dry ginger should have the same effect.

>

> " But if it's ginger flavoring, that wouldn't work, " she told WebMD.

>

> Ginger is readily absorbed in the body and has long been considered a

> natural remedy for stomach aches, although scientists don't know how it works.

>

> " By taking the ginger prior to chemotherapy treatment, the National Cancer

> Institute-funded study suggests its earlier absorption into the body may

> have anti-inflammatory properties, " said in a press statement.

>

> Sources: University of Rochester Medical Center, WebMD.

>

>

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