Nausea and vomiting are the common complication during and after spinal anesthesia antiemitic drugs reduce vomiting, but have some potential side effect. Acupressure is a nonagressive and without drug effect method that some the researcher suggest that this method can be used as a approach to reduce nausea and vomiting. Objective: This study is a clinical trial which is aimed to evaluate the ef...

a 2 years and 9 months old boy attended to a gastroenterology clinic of pediatric hospital for investigation of recurrent and intractable vomiting. he had post prandial, non-projectile, non-bilious emesis since past 2 years. since the onset of illness, he was carried to many doctors and underwent extensive laboratory investigations. because all of the science lab and imaging work up for etiolog...

in this article, we present the case of a 12-year-old female child who complained of bilateral temporal and frontal headache for 2 to 3 months with nausea and vomiting. physical examination revealed right-sided sixth cranial nerve palsy and papilledema in ophthalmoscopy. to find the cause of increased intracranial pressure, the patient underwent brain imaging and brain mri showed no abnormality...

a 50-year-old lady presented with bloody vomiting and melena since four days prior to admission. her medical history was significant only for hypertension which was controlled by a 5 mg daily dose of amlodipine. she occasionally took nsaids. on admission, the physical exam revealed only mild tachycardia and pallor. hemoglobin was 9.7 g/dl, which subsequently declined to 7.9 g/dl. the first uppe...

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...