Knowing The side effects of chemotherapy

The most feared of chemotherapy are the side effects. There are people who do not feel any side effects of chemotherapy. There are experienced mild side effects. But there is also the pain of it. There is-no or severity of side effects of chemotherapy depend on many things, among other types of chemotherapy drugs, the condition of your body, your mental condition.
Side effects of chemotherapy occur because chemotherapy drugs are very strong, and not only kill cancer cells, but also attack healthy cells, particularly cells that divide rapidly.
Therefore, the side effects of chemotherapy appear on parts of the body cells divide rapidly.

Some side effects often occur in chemotherapy are:
1.sick and Vomiting
This situation most patients complained of getting chemotherapy. It is not possible nausea and vomiting that is not in control will make the patient refused further chemotherapy. There are a few tips to consider to reduce the complaint as:
• Provision of anti-emetic. Starting from the type metoklopramideatau domperidone is usually given to patients with low risk to categories such as ondansentron 5HT3 antagonist. Consider long-term side effects of this antiemetic.
• Usually ondasentron work more effective if also given together dexamethason
• Try to prevent the complaint as early as first serious complaint maybe don’t wait
• Many patients reduce complaints by reducing meal shortly before and after kemoterapi.may take 2-3 hours before and after chemotherapy. It can also consume foods low in fat, meat, fried foods and drink plenty but often little drink).
• Many complaints of this happening because of stress it is necessary to consider reduced with acupuncture, hear music, see the sights

2. Hiperurisemia
these side effects are not too frequent situation where the marked renal toxicity caused rapid lyses of tumor mass, especially in germ cell tumor and lymphoma. Prevention can be done by asking a lot to drink 24 hours before chemotherapy and giving allupurinol.

3.Hair Loss
Not all chemotherapy drugs cause hair loss. These complaints typically arise after 22 days of chemotherapy first. Most hair loss on the head but can also in areas of hair loss, pubic hair and even eyebrows and eyelids. One attempt to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy on hair growth is by scalp cooling. Hair re-growth may occur after 6-10 weeks of chemotherapy last. To resolve this complaint to consider wearing a wig or head covering. But we must distinguish between alopecia aerate with hair loss.

4. bone marrow Depression and infection
this is the most dangerous side effects. In the developed countries is estimated to death

5. Diarhea
Fluid therapy remains the best option in patients with diarrhea due to chemotherapy. This condition is characterized by increasing frequency CHAPTER >4x24 hours. In patients who receive 3-4 liters of fluid intake per day and diarrhea usually is enough. But consider the situation of sepsis in neutropenic patients with fever, diarrhea, right iliac fosse pain or severe mucositis.

drug-related side effect eg metoclopropamide can cause extra pyramidal
because of side effects is about 0.5% of all patients receiving chemotherapy., but probably much higher because of inadequate care, poor sterilization etc. Bone marrow depression is at its nadir at 10 days post-chemotherapy (generally). This decrease can be mitigated by providing growth factor such as granulocyte colony stimulating factor and granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor.
So for the doctors need to be thinking about the state of neutropenic sepsis if the patient post chemotherapy was not feeling