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What Shall I Do As My Sister Is Not Having Appetite?
hi doc, my sister who is 70 has been diagnised as having oesophageal cancer (advanced stage) , now going for chemo actually finished two and she does not have appetite and doc advised her to have this cypon syrup, but she feels so drowsy and shivers and no improvement in appetite at all what shall I do
Tue, 1 Apr 2014
loss of appatite is common because of chemotherapy. cypon syp will temporarily increase the appatite. drowsiness may be because of side effect of the drug. there are no definite solution for it, but she may take, liquid diet, steroids, anti emetics etc.
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