Re: Daughter - continues vomiting

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One possibility is viral-induced gastroparesis. Has your daughter had a gastric emptying study (GES)? Gastroparesis is a disorder of the stomach, means the emptying muscles aren't working correctly. Some patients experience more vomiting than nausea. There are several causes, one of which is viral. Good thing about viral-induced gastroparesis is that after a few years it often vanishes and the stomach returns to normal behavior.

I have gastroparesis as part of having Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction; "failed" my GES twice. Fortunately for me nausea is my main symptom and not vomiting. But I'm also in a gastroparesis group, and most deal with chronic vomiting. They have to work out which foods are best-tolerated, and/or take a variety of meds. that help with stomach motility and nausea and upper abdominal pain.

There are meds. that help with stomach emptying, which reduces vomiting. There are also procedures that can be done to the pyloric sphincter.

Just a possibility.

Kim M.

SCD 5+ years

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When my oldest son was 7 he contracted the chicken pox. It was a normal case,

but then within 2 weeks he began having intestinal spasms and vomiting. It was

pretty much like true infant colic, beginning only in the evenings around 6-7

p.m. and continuing off and on through the early hours of the morning. Although

there must have been discomfort, I don't think he was in real pain as he didn't

show any normal symptoms of real pain like white pasty skin, or cold sweats,

fainting, etc. It was a roller coaster ride of ever increasing squeezing

discomfort. He could even tell you that he was going to vomit and there would

be plenty of time to get to the toilet or get a bucket. He still had a fairly

normal appetite and played normally too. He was in and out of the hospital and

doctor's office here in the UK trying to determine what was wrong. Over a

holiday in the US (a few weeks after it all had begun) a doctor prescribed a

strong medicine for the spasms. After he took it once or twice, it never

happened again. Is it possible your daughter is having a type of spasm?

Amelia

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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:38:07 -0400, Irene Gofman irenegofman@...>

wrote:

> Hello,

> I have UC and on SCD for the last 5 years with limited success. But the

> question I have is about my daughter, who is not on SCD (she used to be

> for a few years without any specific reasons, but not anymore). She is

> 17 YO and have been vomiting daily during the last 2 weeks. We are

> searching for answers and I hope for some ideas.

> She is not pregnant, didn't have any gastro issues, blood tests came

> back without any problems (well, she apparently has a strep antibody in

> the blood and now takes Amoxisilin (sp?)).

> She is vomiting everyday, there is no pain, discomfort or any pattern

> to this. She is not loosing weight (at least not visibly), active, etc.

> She is under a lot of stress, very busy, but generally deals with all

> of that OK.

> We are waiting for stool tests results (H pylori, parasites) and will

> be doing abdominal X-ray this Saturday. Any suggestion, possibilities?

> thank you,

> Irene

> UC 5 Years

> SCD 5 Years.

>

>

Could she possibly have some form of the flu?

Does she have abdominal pain with the vomiting? Other symptoms?

However, I wouldn't rule out stress, necessarily. Stress can do some

mighty weird things to one's body. I think a lot of us here know that from

very personal experience! (And it need not be really heavy, despressing

kind of stress, either; possibly something a person is not even very

consciously aware of, and it can still cause some serious symptoms.

Example: I have a sister who is experiencing frequent heart palpitations.

She's had every test known to humankind related to her heart, et al, and

they've found nothing. She herself is noe concluding it's stress related.

The only stress she's under is actually fairly pleasant: her son the

contractor is building her and her husband a new house!

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