vomiting

Key facts

Medical condition (new).name

Vomiting

Medical condition (new).synonyms

Emesis, throwing up, puking, barfing, spewing, upchucking, heaving, hurling, ralphing, being sick, urping

Medical condition (new).image

File:49-aspetti di vita quotidiana, vomito,Taccuino Sanitatis, Ca.jpg

Medical condition (new).alt

A Renaissance drawing with vivid colours depicting a woman holding the head of a man, who is bent over and expelling a brownish-red material from his mouth. A second woman stands at the left of the image in the doorway to the room, and appears to offer support. A crude representation of vomiting.

Medical condition (new).caption

14th-century illustration of vomiting from the Casanatense Tacuinum Sanitatis

Medical condition (new).field

Gastroenterology

Medical condition (new).symptoms

Nausea

Medical condition (new).complications

Aspiration, electrolyte and water loss, damage to the enamel of the teeth, tear of the esophageal mucosa

Medical condition (new).risks

History of migraine, history of PONV or motion sickness in a child's parent or sibling, better ASA physical status, intense preoperative anxiety, certain ethnicities or surgery types, decreased perioperative fluids, crystalloid versus colloid administration

via Wikipedia infobox

• Acute vomiting.ReviewThe Veterinary clinics of North America. Small animal practice · 1994King LG, Donaldson MTDOI: 10.1016/s0195-5616(94)50134-7
• Emetophobia (fear of vomiting): A meta-analysis.ReviewJournal of anxiety disorders · 2025Meule A, Seufert L, Kolar DRDOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2025.103053
• Use of orally administered dexmedetomidine to induce emesis in cats.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2024Maxwell KM, Odunayo A, Wissel CDOI: 10.1177/1098612X241248980
• Psychogenic vomiting: a review.ReviewThe American journal of gastroenterology · 1982Wruble LD, Rosenthal RH, Webb WL Jr
• Prevention of vomiting after paediatric strabismus surgery: a systematic review using the numbers-needed-to-treat method.British journal of anaesthesia · 1995Tramèr M, Moore A, McQuay HDOI: 10.1093/bja/75.5.556
• Postoperative nausea and vomiting.ReviewThe Surgical clinics of North America · 2005Williams KSDOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2005.09.005
• Early diagnosis of neonatal-onset cyclic vomiting syndrome.Nagoya journal of medical science · 2023Ogata M, Shimizu D, Ichikawa S et al.DOI: 10.18999/nagjms.85.2.357
• Sudden Chest Pain During Vomiting After Drinking.Gastroenterology · 2022Hirose T, Kakushima N, Fujishiro MDOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2021.07.048

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