A comprehensive history and physical examination can often reveal the cause of nausea and vomiting, making further evaluation unnecessary. Acute symptoms generally are the result of infectious, inflammatory, or iatrogenic causes. Most infections are self-limiting and require minimal intervention; iatrogenic causes can be resolved by removing the offending agent. Chronic symptoms are usually a p...

Background: The premenstrual symptoms may be a sensitive marker of psycho-physiological problems that applied as a diagnostic and a reproductive health education tool and can be influenced different factors such as menstrual characteristics. So, the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between premenstrual nausea, vomiting and menstrual characteristics. Materials and Methods: This...

Nausea and vomiting is a common and distressing postoperative complication with an incidence of 25-43% after both inpatient and day care surgery1. Patients rate freedom from postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) as their most IJBAR (2013) 04 (01) www.ssjournals.com Abstract Purpose: To compare the efficacy of ondansetron-dexamethasone combination with ondansetron alone for prevention of post...

OBJECTIVES Pre-exposure to an environment in which a nausea-inducing body rotation will subsequently be given constitutes a latent inhibition procedure that might act to reduce anticipatory and postrotation nausea. METHODS This was tested in 24 healthy subjects randomly assigned to receive no pre-exposure (group 0), a single pre-exposure (group 1), or three pre-exposures (group 3). Rotation w...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Despite advantages of induction and maintenance of anaesthesia with sevoflurane, postoperative nausea and vomiting occurs frequently. Fentanyl is a commonly used supplement that may contribute to this, although it may also improve analgesia. METHODS This double-blind study examined the incidence and severity of postoperative nausea and vomiting and pain in the first 2...