Nausea

“ The nausea, the vomiting, the diarrhœa, [21] and the painfulness of the abdomen, disappear; quiet sleep sets in, with general perspiration, which terminates the fever, and affords great relief; after waking, the patient is comforted by the internal sensation of returning health; a natural appetite is again felt, the strength returns, and in a few days the healthy look of the tongue and buccal cavity shows that the mucous membrane of the stomach and bowels has recovered its normal quality. ”

“ Many more than escape with these unpleasant symptoms have worse. There is a horrible nausea, as much beyond seasickness as that is beyond a plain stomach-ache, and nearly every one gets it above a certain height. ”

“ A young woman, after suffering for some time from nausea and constant craving for food, but inability to indulge it, and occasionally from pain in the stomach, was attacked suddenly with the usual symptoms of perforation, and died forty-two hours afterwards. ”

“ SYMPTOMS.—The attack is usually sudden in its onset, but in some cases is preceded by nausea, thirst, loss of appetite, and slight general distress for some hours, or it may come on in the course of some gastro-intestinal disturbance. Frequently it is developed during sleep, particularly after midnight, the patient being aroused by a feeling of pressure at the pit of the stomach, which is followed by nausea and violent and incessant vomiting with intense pain, the contents of the stomach being ejected with great force. ”

“ When the nausea arises from plethora, he directs bleeding; and when the plethora is connected with vitiated humours, he recommends both bleeding and purging. When bilious or melancholic humours occasion the nausea, he recommends dilution at first by giving tepid water or the like, and then evacuations of them by purging or emetics. When the humour is an acrid or sweet phlegm, he recommends oxymel, radishes, and the like. When a serous and thin humour is impacted in the stomach, he evacuates it by procuring vomiting with tepid water or ptisan. ”

“ Specific emetics cause nausea, even without vomiting, depressing the action of the heart by their influence over the Vagus nerve. Irritant emetics scarcely cause nausea, producing only a feeling of discomfort, arising from the inverted action of the stomach. ”

“ The phenomena of sea-sickness are too well known to need detailed description. Violent and persistent vomiting is associated with it in most minds, and is the prominent symptom in most cases; but there are also a cold, clammy skin, headache, continuous nausea, great prostration, and indifference, the whole being accompanied by nervous irritability, and, in most cases, intense mental depression. ”

“ Nausea or vomiting, is one of the most common and distressing affections of pregnancy. It is chiefly troublesome in the earlier months of gestation, continuing until the period of quickening, when it decreases or ceases spontaneously;—or it does not occur until the latter months of pregnancy, when it subsides only upon delivery. ”

“ It is a lamentable fact that most do not. In one of my conversational lectures a lady testified that for seven months before her child was born she never knew one hour’s relief from nausea—that she was not conscious of retaining any nourishment upon her stomach, and that no day elapsed without vomiting blood. ”

“ Since nausea is usually experienced in the morning on rising from the recumbent to the upright posture, measures to prevent an attack should be begun even before the patient raises her head from the pillow. In the first place something to eat should be taken as soon as she awakens. ”

“ The moaning and groaning, The sighing and sobbing, Are quieted now, With that horrible throbbing At heart:—ah, that horrible, Horrible throbbing! The sickness—the nausea— The pitiless pain— Have ceased, with the fever That maddened my brain— With the fever called “Living” That burned in my brain. ”

“ Symptoms.—Pallor of the face and mucous membranes, dimness of vision, cold perspirations, sense of impending death, restlessness, air hunger and gasping for breath, nausea, and, maybe, vomiting, noises in the ears, passing delirium, quick, feeble, and fluttering pulse, or the latter may be imperceptible at the wrist, insensibility, convulsions.
In ordinary fainting attacks many of the above symptoms are absent; such as are present are temporary. In collapse, consciousness is retained. ”

“ Cramp at pit of stomach before eating. Nausea, cannot bear seeing people eat. Pain at pit of stomach, with desire to vomit, while eating. Sweat all over, after eating. Nausea, with flow of saliva. 20. Desire to vomit. Sharp piercing-sticking pain in abdomen. Itching of the genital organs. Palpitation of the heart. Pain in the lungs, arresting the breathing.
Extremities, &c.: 25. Hammering sensation in nape of neck. Itching of the back, with smarting after scratching. The hands feel like ice in cold water. Pain at the left wrist. Swelling of the right index-finger. ”

“ This nausea may be excited only by various odors or sights or may be caused by constipation. An increased secretion from the salivary glands usually accompanies the stomach disturbances and in some cases it may amount to salivation. An irresistible desire for certain articles of food or drink, generally of a sour or acid nature, is often developed. Indigestion, gas in the bowels and belching of gas are frequently present. ”

“ The treatment for reflex vomiting, quite obviously, consists of correcting the disturbing condition, whatever it may be, after which the nausea usually subsides in a short time. The nurse should take care that her patient resumes a regular diet very gradually, even after the cause of the nausea has been removed, for the stomach has become irritable and the vomiting habit, both mental and physical, though easily established, is usually broken up with considerable difficulty. ”

“ Neuralgic affections of various parts of the body, pain in the front and back of the head, cardialgia, abnormal sensations in the legs, associated with salivation, coryza, nausea, vomiting and diarrhœa, tend to bring them into a desperate condition. ”

“ The first symptoms of the disease are, a pain in the part where he was bit, which gradually spreads all around; the whole body in general is attended with a dull heavy pain, a lassitude and weariness. The mind grows depressed and anxious, together with a loss of appetite and a nausea at the stomach; and, in particular, a difficulty of swallowing, sore throat, and accumulation of spittle. ”

“ When nausea comes on without being produced artificially, it is a clear inference that noxious humours are vexing the stomach. Some feel uneasy, but vomit nothing, the humour being retained in the coats. ”

“ As time passed, however, and the sufferers, instead of feeling relieved, only seemed to be growing worse—the vertigo and nausea continuing, while the vomiting was renewed in frequent and violent attacks—they at length became seriously alarmed, believing themselves poisoned to death. ”

“ Nausea and Vomiting—Means of Prevention, and Cure. There are a variety of physiological troubles that are connected with pregnancy. True, women do not all experience these, any or all of them; but inasmuch as you are liable to these affections, it is my duty to speak of them. In doing so, I shall class all of these abnormal symptoms under the general head of “disorders,” because I believe that in a truly natural, or, in other words, healthful state of the system, none of these ailments would be experienced. ”

“ As there is a marked tendency toward nausea during early pregnancy, it may be brought on by slight causes which would not produce it under ordinary conditions. Anxiety, grief, fright, shock, incessant worrying, fits of rage, introspection, brooding, or any great emotional stress may cause nausea when the diet is entirely satisfactory. ”

“ Great depression is felt at the stomach at the same time, with nausea, occasionally with vomiting; and strangury, with the discharge of only a few drops of scalding urine or blood from the bladder, adds additional suffering to the disease. ”

“ I was violently ill, and my illness developed in the seven stages traditionally allotted to the visions. First, extreme nausea, which lasted for two days, second, a raging fever, third, a procession of green eruptions on my legs, fourth, terrific pains in the region of my abdomen, fifth, dizziness, sixth, inability to command any of my muscles, and seventh, a prolonged period of sleep, which lasted for forty-eight hours. ”

“ The patient in the hot stage is generally thirsty, and if he is allowed to drink much, it may result in nausea and vomiting. Moderate indulgence in water, however, is permissible. There is aversion to food, and if any is eaten, it remains undigested. ”

“ It is an exceedingly good rule to bend every effort toward escaping the initial attack of nausea, for in this way one soon gains confidence, and overcomes the depressing habit of being continually on the watch for the symptom, lest she be taken unawares. ”

“ Résumé of Symptoms.—If we boil down the matter, extracting only the symptoms and changes observed during the above experiments with Parthenina, we have the following: Heaviness and dulness of head, tendency to vertigo, malaise, apathy, lassitude, profuse and very fluid salivation, sensation of heat and weight in the stomach, increased appetite, gastric intolerance, nausea and vomiting. Increased stupor, desire to be quiet, refusal of food, and indifference. Excitation of the heart beats, or slow beating of the heart ”

“ A frequent cause is eating decomposing food, particularly in hot weather. Alcohol is another great cause.
Symptoms.—In mild cases. Distress in the stomach, headache, weary feeling, thirst, nausea, belching of wind, sour food, and vomiting; the tongue is heavily coated and the saliva increased. In children there are loose bowels and colicky pains. It lasts rarely more than twenty-four hours. Vomiting usually relieves the patient. ”

“ The symptoms that ensued were characteristic of its double action. In an hour they all had burning in the throat, gullet, and stomach, followed by nausea, dysuria, and vomiting; weakness and stiffness of the limbs; giddiness, blindness, and dilated pupil; great faintness, convulsive breathing, and small pulse. One of them, an elderly woman, who took the largest share, had an imperceptible pulse, stertorous breathing, and total insensibility even to ammonia held under the nose. Next day she continued lethargic, complained of headache, and had an eruption like flea-bites. ”

“ Hardly any sleep during the night; in the morning patient is in a happy temper, makes no complaints. Temperature and pulse normal. In the course of the forenoon there was much perspiration, and patient complained of headache and nausea. Pupils unequal, the left smaller than the right. Pressure on the stomach, shivering, yawning; in the afternoon, there is restlessness, stomach-ache, epigastric pain, oppressiveness, much perspiration, shivering. Poultices were applied to the abdomen. ”

“ The sensations derived from the inward organs are also distinctly more or less voluminous. Repletion and emptiness, suffocation, palpitation, headache, are examples of this, and certainly not less spatial is the consciousness we have of our general bodily condition in nausea, fever, heavy drowsiness, and fatigue. ”

“ Symptoms.—At first it causes a sense of well-being and exhilaration, but it must be gradually increased to produce the result; when the effect wears off, the person feels weary, mentally and physically; has nausea, slight distress in the stomach region or pain like intestinal colic. Another dose relieves these feelings, eventually the person becomes thin, his face is sallow, the pupils are dilated or unequal, except when he is under the influence of the drug. His appetite is poor with indigestion. ”

“ Symptoms. There is headache, quick pulse, tongue coated white, countenance pallid, features pinched, respiration difficult, nausea and vomiting, severe pain in the abdomen, which is extremely sensitive to pressure and becomes very much distended. There is also pain in the limbs, the bowels are constipated, and, in exceptional cases, diarrhea is a prominent symptom. The urine is deficient in quantity, and there is sleeplessness, chilliness, and great general prostration. Vomiting and coughing or sneezing increase the pain. An erect position occasions intense suffering. ”

“ These symptoms appear sooner or later, sometimes as early as the tenth day, according as the patient be more or less burthened with superfluous humours. Nausea also and sickness affect the most of women, and especially such as those that we have just now mentioned, after the menstrual discharge has ceased and before it is yet turned in the direction of the breasts. ”

“ SURFEIT, in physiology, is an indisposition attended with nausea, and the sensation of a load at the stomach, which are generally occasioned by indolence, and excess in eating or drinking; though the disease sometimes arises from an error in the quality of the diet. ”

“ Symptoms, which commence with cold chills and flushes, lassitude, heaviness, pain in the head, and drowsiness, cough, hoarseness, and extreme difficulty of breathing, frequent sneezing, deduction or running at the eyes and nose, nausea, sometimes vomiting, thirst, a furred tongue; the pulse throughout is quick, and sometimes full and soft, at others hard and small, with other indications of an inflammatory nature. ”