Table 1.

Nausea Triggers

Trigger	Description
Day 50 post– bone marrow transplant
Sight of food	“. . . I saw a lot of them (food on TV) when I was real sick in the hospital. So, they still kind of make me nauseous.” “There was a burrito that was really cheesy, and I couldn’t do it because there was all the cheese on top. It just made me start gagging. I had to get away from it.”
Sound of food	“. . . squishy noises . . . they might drop it and it flops on the plate, like spaghetti coming together.”
Smell of food	“If they brought me meatloaf or something like that on a tray when I was in the hospital, the smell would always bother me. I wouldn’t want to eat. I don’t like that anymore because of the smell. It made me sick.”
Taking medications	“The cyclosporine and the bactrim . . . I took it at the same time, so that made me sick . . .”
Coming to the hospital/ clinic	“. . . the only time I get nauseated is if I come here (clinic) sometimes.” “I just kind of feel nauseous every time I’m in the hospital and it gets better whenever I get out.”
Day 100 post– bone marrow transplant
Hunger	“. . . if I don’t eat anything and it gets to the point where I’m really hungry, I’ll start to feel nauseated, so then I can’t eat because I’ll feel like I’m going to throw up.”
Taking medications	“I give my stomach time to kind of digest the food . . . then I take my pills, knowing that it’s not so close together, so they won’t combine and make my stomach kind of woozy.” “. . . they (medications) would kind of stir in my stomach, and then with food on top . . . it wasn’t exactly fitting in my stomach”