Gastrointestinal causes
Gastrointestinal causes of adult vomiting are very common and may be divided into:
- gastroenteritis - often short-lived and associated with fever and vomiting; overlaps with:
- food poisoning - infective, irritative and toxic agents
- obstruction, physical or physiological, of the bowel:
- pyloric stenosis
- gastric cancer
- acute gastritis
- oesophageal reflux
- acute appendicitis
- rarely:
- achalasia
- caustic oesophageal strictures
- oesophageal carcinoma
- oesophageal perforation
- pyloric hypertrophy
- gastric volvulus
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