Nausea and vomiting in specialist palliative care are common, distressing and debilitating symptoms, and increase in prevalence as disease progresses. Pharmacological treatment of these symptoms can produce undesirable extrapyramidal effects that mimic symptoms such as Parkinson's disease, depression and anxiety. This article reviews the common causes of nausea and vomiting, and the antiemetic drugs and receptors they antagonise, and the associated side effects with this.
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