miscellaneous causes
Last reviewed 01/2018
Other causes of vomiting in adults include:
- normal physiological response:
- to stress
- travel sickness
- pregnancy - pathological in hyperemesis gravidarum
- radiation therapy
- mesenteric arterial occlusion
- hepatic and biliary disease:
- cirrhosis
- acute cholecystitis
- pancreatic disease:
- ruptured pancreas
- acute pancreatitis
- disseminated malignancy
- hereditary spherocytosis
- testicular torsion
- twisted ovarian cyst