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A case of concurrent vomiting in a child with electrical cerebral dysrythmia
Author(s) -
GRAM LARS
Publication year - 1948
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1948.tb06822.x
Subject(s) - vomiting , medicine , stomach , pediatrics , anesthesia
Summary It is given an account of a case of recurrent vomiting in a girl of 8 years. She have had her symptoms from the age of 2 years with frequent attacks of vomiting lasting several days, Her symptoms resembled closely the findings in cases of acetonemic vomiting except that the degree of acetonemia was very low and came on after the vomiting had begun. During the attacks there was a complete retention in the stomach, but when the vomitings had ceased the roentgenological findings where normal. Electroence phalography showed an electrical cerbral dysrhythmia and the condition of the patient was explained as beeing a visceral epileptic equivalent. As the recurrent vomiting of the patient showed close relationship to acetonemic vomiting it is argued that one ought to make an electroencephalography in similar cases.