A Rare Cause of Persistent Nausea and Vomiting: Candida Duodenitis

An Intriguing Cause of Intractable Nausea and Vomiting

DOI: 10.4103/1319-3767.114510 A 60‐year‐old lady with history of reflux disease and breast cancer status post‐lumpectomy and lymph node dissection followed by chemotherapy and now in remission, was admitted with progressively increasing nausea and vomiting of 2 months duration. She also described episodic epigastric abdominal pain, which increased on food intake and led to vomiting, which broug...

ACUPUNCTURE, NAUSEA AND VOMITING About nausea and vomiting

Nausea and vomiting are commonly experienced by women in early pregnancy; the prevalence rates are 50-80% for nausea, and 50% for vomiting and retching (Miller 2002; Woolhouse 2006). The symptoms are most common in the first trimester, between 6 and 12 weeks, but can continue to 20 weeks and last longer than this in up to 20% of women (Jewell 2003; Miller 2002). If vomiting is intractable, it c...

Postoperative nausea and vomiting

Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is a long-standing issue, not a new concept in anesthesiology. Despite many studies over the last several decades, PONV remains a significant problem due to its complex mechanism. This review presents a summary of the mechanism underlying the pathogenesis of PONV, focusing on preventive treatment, particularly the use of new drugs. In addition, we discus...

Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting

A rare cause of neonatal persistent jaundice.

Oliveira GN, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-223306 Description A 22-year-old gravida 2, para 1 (G2P1) woman with immunoglobulin anti-D prophylaxis, insulin-treated gestational diabetes and first-trimester cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection vaginally delivered a 39-week boy weighing 3720 g (90th centile) and with Apgar scores of 8 and 10 at 1 and 5 min. Prenatal ultrasonographic ass...