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Concerning signs in an infant or child with nausea or vomiting

Concerning signs in an infant or child with nausea or vomiting
Concerning signs Comments or diagnostic considerations
Nonspecific symptoms
Prolonged vomiting
  • >12 hours in a neonate
  • >24 hours in children <2 years
  • >48 hours in older children
  • Concerns for fluid and electrolyte abnormalities
  • Increased possibility of underlying systemic or metabolic disorder
Profound lethargy
  • Increased possibility of an underlying systemic or metabolic disorder
Significant weight loss
  • Increased possibility of an underlying systemic or metabolic disorder
Symptoms of gastrointestinal obstruction or disease
Bilious vomiting
  • Intestinal obstruction, especially in a neonate
Projectile vomiting
  • Pyloric stenosis in a young infant (<12 weeks of age)
  • Intestinal obstruction, cyclic vomiting syndrome
Hematemesis
  • Severe hematemesis suggests esophageal varices
  • Milder hematemesis may be due to injury to the esophagus (Mallory-Weiss tear) or stomach (prolapse gastropathy), due to recurrent vomiting
Hematochezia
  • Intussusception (especially in infants and toddlers), infectious colitis, or IBD
Marked abdominal distension, peritoneal signs
  • Intestinal obstruction or intra-abdominal process (eg, appendicitis)
Symptoms or signs suggesting neurologic or systemic disease
Bulging fontanelle (infant)
  • Hydrocephalus or meningitis
Headache, positional triggers for vomiting or vomiting on awakening, lack of nausea
  • Increased intracranial pressure (eg, CNS mass, hydrocephalus, or idiopathic intracranial hypertension)
Altered consciousness, seizures, or focal neurologic abnormalities
  • Toxic ingestion, diabetic ketoacidosis, CNS mass, or inborn error of metabolism
History or physical signs of trauma
  • Subdural hematoma or intra-abdominal injury (eg, duodenal hematoma)
Hypotension disproportionate to apparent illness and/or hyponatremia with hyperkalemia
  • Adrenal crisis
IBD: inflammatory bowel disease; CNS: central nervous system.
Courtesy of Carlo Di Lorenzo, MD.
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