TY  - JOUR
T1  - DRamamine® for nausea of electric shock and migraine
AU  - Kerman EF
Y1  - 1949/10/15
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1949.02910070050022
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 478
EP  - 478
VL  - 141
IS  - 7
N2  - To the Editor:— 
    Within the past two months I have successfully used dramamine® (beta-dimethylaminoethyl benzohydryl ether 8-chlorotheophyllinate) in two conditions in which, to the best of my knowledge, success has not yet been reported. The results obtained have been striking.Many patients awaken after electroshock therapy with feelings of nausea. Vomiting occurs in some of these cases. The usual medication, such as antispasmodic or hyoscine therapy, has not relieved them of this discomfort. When this gastrointestinal disturbance occurred in the past one could only tell the patient that in time the discomfort would disappear.Premedication with dramamine,® I believed, might prove effective in the prevention of this symptom. I have limited its use to those patients who have complained of nausea or who have vomited after one or more treatments. One of the patients to whom I gave this drug had received forty treatments and had vomited regularly each time.
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.02910070050022
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02910070050022
ER  -