NAUSEA
October 7, 2011 in Health Library, Symptoms
Nausea and vomiting are very common symptoms that can be caused by a wide variety of conditions. Nausea and vomiting most often are due to viral gastroenteritis — often mistakenly termed “stomach flu” — or the morning sickness of early pregnancy. Many medications can cause nausea and vomiting, as can general anesthesia for surgery. Rarely, nausea and vomiting may indicate a serious or even life-threatening problem
Nausea and vomiting may occur separately or together. Common causes include:
- Chemotherapy
- Gastroparesis (poor functioning of stomach muscles)
- General anesthesia
- Migraine
- Motions sickness: First aid
- Overdose of alcohol, illicit substances or toxic substances
- Rotavirus
- Vertigo (false sense of motion or spinning)
- Viral gastroenteritis (stomach flu)
Other possible causes of nausea and vomiting include:
- Addison’s disease
- Alcoholic hepatitis
- Anaphylaxis
- Anorexia nervosa
- Appendicitis
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
- Brain AVM (arteriovenous malformation)
- Brain hemorrhage
- Brain infarction
- Brain timor
- Bulimia nervosa
- Chronic kidney failure
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (condition that limits adrenal function)
- Crohn’s disease
- Cyclic vomiting syndrome
- Depression
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Dizziness
- Ear infection (middle ear)
- Food poisoning
- Frontal lobe seizures
- Gallstones
- General anxiety disorder
- GERD
- Head injury
- Heart attack
- Heart failure
- Hirchsprung’s disease
- Hydrocephalus
- Hyperparathyroidism (overactive parathyroid)
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypoparathyroidism (underactive parathyroid)
- Intestinal ischemia
- Intestinal obstruction
- Intracranial hematoma
- Intussusception (in children)
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Liver cancer
- Liver failure
- Meniere’s disease
- Meningitis
- Milk allergy (in infants and children)
- Nonulcer stomach pain
- Pancreatic cancer
- Pancreatitis
- Peptic ulcer
- Porphyria
- Pseudotumor cerebri
- Pyloric stenosis (in infants)
- Radiation therapy
- Retroperitoneal fibrosis
- Social anxiety disorder
- Stomach obstruction
- Strep throat (in children)
- Temporal lobe seizure
- Traumatic brain injury
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