Pharmacist advice
Nausea
Nausea is feeling sick to your stomach. Short bouts often settle with fluids and rest. This page does not start a prescription anti-nausea medicine.
A pharmacist cannot prescribe for this from this page.
What usually helps
- Small sips of fluid, and ginger tea or ginger capsules if a pharmacist says they fit.
- Dimenhydrinate or bismuth subsalicylate are ingredients some adults use. A pharmacist checks age, pregnancy, and other medicines first. Bismuth subsalicylate is not for children or teenagers with a viral illness.
Talk to a pharmacist first
- You are pregnant or breastfeeding.
- The person is under 12, unless the note below gives a different age.
- You take other medicines, or you have a long-term condition.
- Nausea from a new medicine, or vomiting that lasts more than a day.
See a doctor or call 911
- Blood in vomit, severe belly pain, a stiff neck, or dehydration.
- Chest pain, trouble breathing, or fainting. Call 911.
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