GI

Question 1

What controls vomiting in the body?

Answer 1

Coordinated by the medullary vomiting center or chemoreceptor trigger zone of brain

Question 2

What is regurgitation?

Answer 2

Passive reflux of gastric contents into oropharynx

Question 3

What usually triggers projectile vomiting in the body?

Answer 3

Often arises from the CNS

Question 4

What kind of vomiting is often seen in GERD?

Answer 4

Non-projectile

Question 5

Possible causes of newborn/infant vomiting?

Answer 5

1. Infection
2. Congenital anomaly
3. CNS abnormality
4. inborn errors of metabolism

Question 6

Possible causes of infant/young children vomiting?

Answer 6

1. gastroenteritis
2. GERD
3. milk/soy allergies
4. pyloric stenosis/obstruction
5. inborn errors of metabolism
6. intussusception
7. child abuse
8. intracranial mass lesion

Question 7

Possible cause of older children/adolescent vomiting?

Answer 7

1. gastroenteritis
2. systemic illness
3. CNS cause
4. intussusception
5. rumination
6. superior mesenteric artery syndrome
7. pregnancy