Recurring Vomiting

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Registered: 04-14-2005
Recurring Vomiting
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Thu, 04-14-2005 - 8:15pm
Do these symptoms suggest anything to you? My sister has recurring vomiting that is sweet tasting. It usually happens first thing in the morning. She is 63, obese, has mild Type II diabetes controlled by diet. Endoscopy and colonoscopy revealed nothing other than mild gastritis. Sonogram did not indicate gallstones or gall bladder disease. Blood tests reveal no dysfunction in the liver or pancreas. The attacks, which occur every few weeks, occur the morning after a high-fat meal, but she has never had problems with this type of food before and it does not occur every time she eats high fat. She take a wide variety of medication for all sorts of ailments (arthritis, high blood pressure, acid reflux, etc.) but has taken them all for quite awhile. At first she did not have any nausea prior to vomiting but now reports that she is nauseated for hours before throwing up. The best diagnosis her doctor has given her is gastritis but the sweet taste of the vomit seems especially peculiar. I'm wondering if this is related to her diabetes some how. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Registered: 10-14-2003
Fri, 04-15-2005 - 2:07pm

Hi and Welcome


I am not sure but

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Registered: 04-14-2005
Sat, 04-16-2005 - 10:12am
Yes, she has her diabetes monitored regularly and also has a home kit for blood sugar testing. I thought perhaps the high fat/low carb meal might be pushing a state of ketosis and that she should check her ketone levels in her urine whenever she gets sick like this. She never had problems eating fried foods (for example) before, it just seemed to come out of the blue. Nor does it happen each time sh eats a fatty meal. And that sweet taste when she vomits seems very strange to me; I've never heard of that. I have a lot of digestive problems myself and any time I have thrown up in the morning after the food is digested it is bitter, bitter bile, certainly not sweet.
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Registered: 03-23-2003
Sat, 04-16-2005 - 7:42pm

Hi Twohoneysmom!


Welcome to the board.