Recurrent nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain due to hypothyroidism

Factors related to abdominal pain in gastroparesis: contrast to patients with predominant nausea and vomiting.

BACKGROUND Factors associated with abdominal pain in gastroparesis are incompletely evaluated and comparisons of pain vs other symptoms are limited. This study related pain to clinical factors in gastroparesis and contrasted pain/discomfort- with nausea/vomiting-predominant disease. METHODS Clinical and scintigraphy data were compared in 393 patients from seven centers of the NIDDK Gastropare...

Significant weight loss, nausea, and vomiting due to strongyloidiasis:a case report

  Abstract   Strongyloidiasis is caused by infestation with Strongyloides stercoralis, a free   living tropical and semitropical soil helminth that has a larval form that penetrates   intact skin. Clinical manifestations may be varied from an asymptomatic infection   in immunocompetent hosts to a diffuse and fatal form in immunocompromised   hosts.   We report a 56-year-old man from Dezful (sou...

Recurrent abdominal pain due to hereditary angio-oedema.

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...

Multimodal therapies for postoperative nausea and vomiting, and pain.

Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) and pain are two of the major concerns for patients presenting for surgery. The causes of PONV are multifactorial and can largely be categorized as patient risk factors, anaesthetic technique, and surgical procedure. Antiemetics work on several different receptor sites to prevent or treat PONV. This is probably why numerous studies have now demonstrated ...