Childhood chronic nausea: Is it just a queasy stomach?

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Kovacic, Katja ^a   Li, B U K ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal migraine; Chronic idiopathic nausea; Cyclic vomiting syndrome; Delayed gastric emptying; FGID; Functional dyspepsia; Functional gastrointestinal disorders; Functional nausea; Gastroparesis; Migraine headaches; Postural tachycardia syndrome

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CYPROHEPTADINE; DOMPERIDONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUDROCORTISONE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MINERALOCORTICOID; ONDANSETRON; PROKINETIC AGENT; PROPRANOLOL; SEROTONIN 3 ANTAGONIST; TOPIRAMATE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED NAUSEA AND VOMITING; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC NAUSEA; CHRONIC NAUSEA; COMORBIDITY; CYCLIC VOMITING SYNDROME; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPEPSIA; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IRRITABLE COLON; LOW DRUG DOSE; MIGRAINE; MOTION SICKNESS; NAUSEA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME; REVIEW; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH PARESIS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTIEMETICS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; GASTRIC EMPTYING; HUMANS; NAUSEA; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84901365488     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: 1534312X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-014-0395-z     Document Type: Review

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