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Psychogenic vomiting of retarded persons might be partly the result of stomach overloading. A retarded male subject was treated by spacing the food intake and teaching him to eat more slowly. Vomiting decreased during the spaced food intake, resumed during normal intake, and decreased again during the reinstated spaced intake. These results indicate the importance of food-intake factors in psychogenic vomiting.
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PMID:Vomiting reduction by slower food intake. 380 Mar 66

Psychogenic vomiting appears to be an exacerbation of a longstanding pattern of episodic stress-related vomiting. A small fraction of these patients has serious psychiatric problems and are in need of specialized treatment. Generally, psychogenic vomiters are very resentful of the suggestion that they should seek psychiatric help and more often than not refuse to be referred. Indeed, the majority of these patients is not seriously psychiatrically disturbed. They respond very well to an opportunity to ventilate their stresses to the treating physician and to supportive contacts to help them over their crisis.
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PMID:Psychogenic vomiting: a review. 704 8

While widely used in research, the 1991 Rome criteria for the gastroduodenal disorders, especially symptom subgroups in dyspepsia, remain contentious. After a comprehensive literature search, a consensus-based approach was applied, supplemented by input from international experts who reviewed the report. Three functional gastroduodenal disorders are defined. Functional dyspepsia is persistent or recurrent pain or discomfort centered in the upper abdomen; evidence of organic disease likely to explain the symptoms is absent, including at upper endoscopy. Discomfort refers to a subjective, negative feeling that may be characterized by or associated with a number of non-painful symptoms including upper abdominal fullness, early satiety, bloating, or nausea. A dyspepsia subgroup classification is proposed for research purposes, based on the predominant (most bothersome) symptom: (a) ulcer-like dyspepsia when pain (from mild to severe) is the predominant symptom, and (b) dysmotility-like dyspepsia when discomfort (not pain) is the predominant symptom. This classification is supported by recent evidence suggesting that predominant symptoms, but not symptom clusters, identify subgroups with distinct underlying pathophysiological disturbances and responses to treatment. Aerophagia is an unusual complaint characterized by air swallowing that is objectively observed and troublesome repetitive belching. Functional vomiting refers to frequent episodes of recurrent vomiting that is not self-induced nor medication induced, and occurs in the absence of eating disorders, major psychiatric diseases, abnormalities in the gut or central nervous system, or metabolic diseases that can explain the symptom. The current classification requires careful validation but the criteria should be of value in future research.
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PMID:Functional gastroduodenal disorders. 1045 43