Comforting Your Uncomfortable Stomach: A Companion for Silent Sufferers of Nausea and Vomiting

Comforting Your Uncomfortable Stomach: A Companion for Silent Sufferers of Nausea and Vomiting

Comforting Your Uncomfortable Stomach: A Companion for Silent Sufferers of Nausea and Vomiting

Comforting Your Uncomfortable Stomach: A Companion for Silent Sufferers of Nausea and Vomiting

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Overview

In this valuable guide for those who suffer nausea, a patient and her gastroenterologist collaborate up to provide a three-step diet to ease nausea, vomiting, and other symptoms related to the stomach and gastrointestinal system.

The pair provides easily understandable anatomy and physiology of the stomach to help you understand why the three-step diet is important to reduce nausea, vomiting and comfort your uncomfortable stomach. This book will serve as a companion in your journey to find the precise diagnosis and treatments for your nausea and vomiting. Throughout the book, Laura A. Dotson and Kenneth L. Koch, M.D., provide advice on how to become your best advocate for your own health!

Kenneth L. Koch, M.D., has dedicated his career to researching the neuromuscular activity of the stomach in patients with unexplained chronic nausea and vomiting. He has developed a three-step diet approach that will help you select foods, based on the function of the stomach. This diet will hydrate and nourish you as you seek a diagnosis and treatments for these symptoms.

Laura A. Dotson contributes her experience as Dr. Koch’s once very ill patient. Her livelihood was destroyed by severe and unexplained nausea and vomiting from severe gastroparesis. She followed Dr. Koch’s three-step diet and she developed many nutritious, delicious recipes to comfort her stomach while providing nutrition and variety. Those important recipes are within this companion to help guide your food preparations as well as tips on how to comfort your uncomfortable stomach.

If you or someone you care about suffer from nausea and vomiting, you can soothe uncomfortable stomachs with the advice in this guide.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781665718752
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Publication date: 08/31/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 124
File size: 28 MB
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About the Author

Laura A. Dotson is a native of North Carolina and a practicing interior designer and educator. She was graduated from Salem College, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture. She also did graduate work at the North Carolina University of Agriculture and Technical University. She was referred to Kenneth L. Koch, M.D., after being diagnosed with severe gastroparesis. She is now healed and determined to share her experience to help others. Kenneth L. Koch, M.D. is professor of medicine in the section on gastroenterology and hepatology at Wake Forest University’s School of Medicine and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. He has a career-long interest in the electrical activity of the gastrointestinal tract, especially the pacemaker system that controls stomach neuromuscular function. He has published over 175 scientific papers, written three books, and contributed over forty book chapters. His dedication continues as he investigates the causes of nausea and vomiting and seeks specific diet, drug and device treatments for patients suffering from neuromuscular diseases and disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.
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