Vomiting is the vigorous expulsion of the stomach contents through the mouth. It is often preceded by nausea, or felling of sickness in the stomach, and by the urge to vomit.
Anybody can,at any time experience nausea and vomiting.
Nausea and vomiting arise when the vomiting centre in the brain is aroused by the following triggers.
Overeating
Contaminated food
Too much alcohol
Food allergies
Medications, or illness.
Some people also complin of what is called motion sickness and vomiting, while travelling in a bus , car ship or airplane.
Besides this, nausea and vomiting are common in the early stages of pregnancy ( morning sickness).
Migraine headaches too cause nausea and vomiting.
Other causes include gallstones
Intestinal obstruction
Gastroenteritis.
Inflammation of the stomach
Nausea and vomiting may also be a result of psychological triggers as well , example include stress and fear or blumia ( deliberate, or induced to lose weight)
Symptoms and Diagnosis.
There are spells or bouts of vomiting or nausea, including the urge to vomit. There may often be a general feeling of sickness in the stomach and dizzy feeling.
Before vomiting actually occurs, there may be profuse salivation, along with retching. People generally feel better after vomiting.
Your dr will conduct a physical examination and ask questions to help identify the cause of nausea and vomiting ( such as overeating and contaminated food) when vomiting is frequent and severe, blood tests and urinalysis are done.
Your dr may advise to under go X-ray and ultrasound studies of the stomach, intestine, pancreas and gallbladder to ascertain the underlying cause.
Homoeopathic treatments
Colour of vomitus
Black. ARS alb
Bloody. Ipecac
Brownish. Nat sulph
Chocolate. Conium
Coffee grouud like. Cadmium sul
Grey. Aconite.
Green Cheldonium
Type
Ineffectual. Ipecac
Painful. Verat alb
Painless. Secale cor
Taste
Bitter Bryonia
Salty. Iodium
Sour. Robinia
Sweetish Kresosote
Tasteless. Ant crud
Character
Bad smell. Kresosote
Bile. Colchicum
Fluid. Bismuth
Food Ferm met
Frothy. Merc cor
Greasy. Mezereum
Mucous. Argt Nit
Percipitating factors
Carsickness / Seasickness. Coculus
Headache. Iris v
Joyfulness. Kali carb
Mental exertion. Nat Mur
Milk Aethusa
Operation ( surgery) Nux vom
Panic Sticta p
Pregnancy. Symphoricarpus RAS
Smoking. Tabacum.
Sunstroke. Glonoine
Water Phosphorus
Hormonal factors
After Menses. Borax
Before Menses. Pulsatilla
During Menses. Apocynum
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