Unlike other antinausea and antivomiting drugs, which work in the stomach, EMEND targets the natural substance in the brain that causes nausea and vomiting. When taken in addition to other antiemetic medications, EMEND can help prevent CINV CINV – chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting for up to 5 full days.
Other medications alone may not be enough.
Ask for EMEND to help improve your chances of preventing CINV.
When taken with other prescribed antiemetic medications, EMEND has been shown to improve prevention of CINV.
Don’t live with CINV.
Chemotherapy may be essential in your fight against cancer. However, the nausea and vomiting that often go along with it is something that you can help prevent by adding EMEND. Now is the time to speak with your oncology doctor or nurse about how a regimen with EMEND can help prevent CINV.
EMEND, in combination with other medicines, helps prevent chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV).
Important information about EMEND
EMEND is only used to help prevent nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy. It is not used to get rid of nausea and vomiting after they start.
Do not take EMEND if you are taking Orap (pimozide), Seldane (terfenadine), Hismanal (astemizole), or Propulsid (cisapride). Taking EMEND with these medicines could cause serious or life-threatening problems. EMEND may also affect some medicines, including chemotherapy, causing them to work differently in your body. Patients taking Coumadin (warfarin) may need to have blood tests after taking EMEND to check their blood clotting. Women who use birth control medicines during treatment with EMEND and for up to 1 month after using EMEND should also use a backup method of contraception to avoid pregnancy.
Tell your doctor if you are taking or plan to take prescription or nonprescription medicines, vitamins, or herbal supplements, or if you have liver problems. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant because it is not known if EMEND can harm your unborn baby. Tell your doctor if you are breast-feeding because it is not known if EMEND passes into your milk or if it can harm your baby.
EMEND is available by prescription only. Please read the Patient Information for EMEND and discuss it with your doctor. The physician Prescribing Information also is available.
