What is radiation sickness or poisoning? Radiation poisoning is illness
and symptoms resulting from exposure to high doses radiation. Sometimes
the exposure is accidental or intentional (as in radiation therapy).Your
daily treatments will probably be scheduled Monday through Friday,
allowing you to rest on weekends. Your daily appointment schedule will
be as convenient for you as possible. Your radiation therapist will
notify you of any holidays on which you will not receive treatments.
Will radiation therapy make me nauseated? Radiation therapy effects
only those areas being treated. If the patient is receiving radiation
therapy to their abdomen then the patient may experience some nausea
from their treatment. There are excellent medications available now that
almost always allow good control of this nausea. Often times the doctor
finds the nauseated radiation patient is nauseated from chemotherapy,
other medications (most commonly pain medicines) or the flu and not the
radiation treatment.
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