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OVERVIEW
This page is designed to organize content that is relevant to the topic of vomiting in infants which belongs to the parent chief complaint of vomiting. This term is used often in medicine, and it is important that we become as familiar as possible with it.
WHAT EXACTLY IS IT?
Before going any farther, let us make sure we clearly define the “medical problem”. Vomiting in infants refers to
WHY IS IT A PROBLEM?
ORGANIZING THE DIFFERENTIAL
The differential diagnosis for vomiting in infants can be organized in a few different ways:
- Can’t miss diagnosis
- Organ systen
- Disease category
- Diagnostic modality
- Most common diagnosis
CLINICAL “WORKUP”
Now that the possible causes of vomiting of infants have been established, the focus can shift to how one would actually “work-up” an infant who presents with vomiting.
- Collecting the history
- Peforming the physical
- Ordering studies/tests
- Intrepreting clinical data
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