The variables compared between survivors and non-survivors were the amount of pesticide ingested, occurrence of vomiting after ingestion, time and place of hospital admission, length of hospital stay, leukocytosis, serum creatinine level and the outcomes.
Beyond 14 weeks, the occurrence of vomiting in patients treated with ExBID decreased to <1%.
It is possible that a study with more statistical power would have identified some clinical differences, such as more frequent occurrence of vomiting [ 20].
Parents are asked about their child's occurrence of maladaptive behaviours following the ED sedation using the PHBQ (modified), as well as additional questions about the occurrence of vomiting.
Twenty-eight patients initially treated with macrolides had to change therapy to i.v. chloramphenicol because of occurrence of vomiting and/or diarrhoea (15 patients treated with clarithromycin and one treated with azithromycin), itching rash (one patient treated with clarithromycin), fever that persisted for > 5 days (two patients treated with clarithromycin and nine treated with azithromycin).
The occurrence of vomiting, frequency and consistency of feces, and behavior were observed for 7 days postoperatively.
An evaluation of the total amount of working hours lost due to migraine attacks and the rate of occurrence of nausea, vomiting, photophobia, phonophobia, and osmophobia 2, 4, 24, and 48 h after drug intake, were also assessed.
Conclusion: The diagnosis of NTHS should be suspected from warning signs, including sudden occurrence of headaches, vomiting, convulsions, motor deficit or transient loss of consciousness, in the lack of obvious head trauma.
Fig. 4 Frequency of occurrence of nausea, vomiting, photophobia, phonophobia, and osmophobia 2, 4, 24, and 48 h after administration of frovatriptan (open bars) or rizatriptan (striped bars) in the 125 patients of the intention-to-treat population.
There was no significant difference between the two groups regarding the occurrence of nausea, vomiting or pruritus, except that the patients in buprenorphine group reported dizziness more frequently (P <0.05) (Table 3).
The questionnaire was composed by different sections, in which we asked for biographic data, duration of headache history, frequency of headache, duration, location, quality and intensity of headache, the influence of physical activity, the occurrence of nausea, vomiting, photophobia and phonophobia, and the occurrence of other neurological symptoms.
