ABSTRACT
Nausea and Vomiting The differential diagnosis is protean and includes drugs (especially narcotics, dopamine agonists, digitalis, chemotherapy, and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs), toxins (alcohol, hypervitaminosis A, and poisoning), infections, vestibular diseases, central nervous system diseases, pregnancy (see below), metabolic disorders (eg, Reye’s syndrome, Jamaican vomiting illness, uremia, parathyroid disease, diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperthyroidism, sepsis, and Addison’s disease), myocardial infarction (congestive heart failure), and radiation.
