Wrist acupuncture for nausea and vomiting

Fallleaves

Thought this might be helpful for people dealing with postsurgical and chemo nausea and vomiting.

A Cochrane systematic review found that stimulation of the PC6 point on the wrist "significantly reduced the incidence of nausea (by 32%)(RR 0.68, 95% CI 0.60 to 0.77; 40 trials, 4742 participants), vomiting (by 40%) (RR 0.60, 95% CI 0.51 to 0.71; 45 trials, 5147 participants) and the need for rescue antiemetics (by 36%) (RR 0.64, 95% CI 0.55 to 0.73; 39 trials, 4622 participants)" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.100...

This video shows how to do it: https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/patient-educatio...

geewhiz

Another cancer patient gave me an accupressure wristband during chemo. I think it was used for sea-sickness. It worked great!

Fallleaves

Geewhiz, I've used those when I was sailing---I was wondering if they would work for this too. Very cool that they do!