Metallic taste - any tips
Had my second round of chemo last week and the side effects increased and I got the terrible metallic taste side effect. My nausea medications could not keep up with the nausea and although I knew I ...
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Hi Julie,
With metallic taste is comment, similar to Tonya - Drinkin with a STRAW ... I drink very cold "sugar free" cordia, and iceblocks / juice blocks to keep the water content up. Apparently drinking with straw avoid your taste bugs and bring water to the back of your mouth.
Use PLASTIC spoons and forks to eat.
Also, towards the last have of chemo, my mouth / eyes gets very dry - so you will need to keep them moist to prevent ulcers and infections. The chemist can advise products to help.
By the way, re Nausea, here is something that may interest you ..
a. Acupunture was a great help to me during chemo (I also heard the reflexology works for others)
b. travel calm natural tablets.
Posted by chemostyle on 22 Mar 2011, 07:35PM
Hi there,
Forgot to mentioned, to helped with my rediculous horrifying nausea, I was recomended by my oncologist to take some travelcalm 3 to 4 days before my chemo session. It did help to ease the nausea.
Please check with your doctor first ...
Travacalm Natural
Each tablet contains ginger 500mg.