“How long does vomiting last after anesthesia?”
I am a 37 year old male. I want to know how long does vomiting last after anesthesia?
3 Answers
In certain patients, especially Young women and in patients with a history of motion sickness, nausea can last for up to 4-8 hours. But nausea is often aggressively treated before discharging a patient to home.
Hi!!!
The nausea shouldn’t last beyond the day of surgery as the anesthesia drugs will wear off by next day. After that, nausea may continue from factors such as the type of surgery like if you had belly surgery or if you continue to take narcotic pain medicine. Some ways you can avoid the nausea on the day of surgery is that evening make sure to drink plenty of fluids, take pain medicine with food, and start eating slowly. I know we all want a hamburger after being forced to not eat for so long ;) but start with light foods (broth, toast) and see how you handle it and advance diet from there. If you need, your doctor can and probably will prescribe you antibiotics nausea medicine called zofran. I also find Benadryl to work for nausea, but it takes about 30 min to work and might make you sleepy, but it’s a great alternative if other things aren’t working.
Have a great surgery!!! Hope this helps.
The nausea shouldn’t last beyond the day of surgery as the anesthesia drugs will wear off by next day. After that, nausea may continue from factors such as the type of surgery like if you had belly surgery or if you continue to take narcotic pain medicine. Some ways you can avoid the nausea on the day of surgery is that evening make sure to drink plenty of fluids, take pain medicine with food, and start eating slowly. I know we all want a hamburger after being forced to not eat for so long ;) but start with light foods (broth, toast) and see how you handle it and advance diet from there. If you need, your doctor can and probably will prescribe you antibiotics nausea medicine called zofran. I also find Benadryl to work for nausea, but it takes about 30 min to work and might make you sleepy, but it’s a great alternative if other things aren’t working.
Have a great surgery!!! Hope this helps.
Not everyone gets sick after anesthesia. There are numerous medications which can be administered to prevent or treat nausea. If you do get sick, it will usually improve within a day.
