Diagnosaurus
Nausea and vomiting
DDx
Infections
- Norwalk or rotavirus
- "Food poisoning" by toxins from B. cereus, S. aureus, C. perfringens
- Hepatitis A or B
- Meningitis or encephalitis
- Acute systemic infections
- Acute pancreatitis
- Cholecystitis or cholelithiasis
- Alcohol, NSAIDs, oral antibiotics
- Antitumor chemotherapy
- Alcohol
- Calcium channel blockers
- Opioids
- Gastric outlet obstruction: peptic ulcer disease, malignancy, gastric volvulus
- Small intestine: adhesions, hernias, volvulus, Crohn's disease, carcinomatosis
- Gastroparesis: diabetic, medications, postviral, postvagotomy
- Small intestine: scleroderma, amyloidosis, chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, familial myoneuropathies
- Perforated viscus
- Appendicitis
- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
- Labyrinthitis, Ménière's disease, motion sickness, migraine
- CNS tumors
- Subdural or subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Anticipatory vomiting
- Bulimia
- Psychiatric disorders
- Myocardial infarction, hypercalcemia, kidney stones, pyelonephritis, diabetic ketoacidosis, uremia, pregnancy, radiation therapy, adrenal crisis, parathyroid disease, hypothyroidism, paraneoplastic syndrome
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Last updated: December 1, 2014
Citation
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Nausea and Vomiting." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114446/0/Nausea_and_vomiting.
Zeiger RFR. Nausea and vomiting. Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114446/0/Nausea_and_vomiting. Accessed November 4, 2025.
Zeiger, R. F. (2014). Nausea and vomiting. In Diagnosaurus (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114446/0/Nausea_and_vomiting
Zeiger RFR. Nausea and Vomiting [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. [cited 2025 November 04]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114446/0/Nausea_and_vomiting.
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