Haematemesis
Haematemesis is the vomiting of blood. It may be due to: having swallowed blood (after a nosebleed or surgery in the mouth); peptic ulcer; or rupture of varicose veins in the oesophagus or a complication of cirrhosis.
HAEMATEMESIS: Vomiting of pure blood or blood mixed with stomach contents. [see 'Vomiting of blood']
HAEMATOMA: Medical name for a well demarcated 'bruise'. [see 'Alcohol-related brain injury']
HAEMATURIA: Blood in the urine.
Haematemesis (severe sudden copious bleeding from the ulcer leading to vomiting of blood) and melaena (internal bleeding into the intestine with passage of black tarry faeces).
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Gastrointestinal anthrax is due to consumption of contaminated meat. It presents as severe gastroenteritis; haematemesis and bloody diarrhoea can occur. Toxaemia, shock and death may follow.
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However, common symptoms are: loss of appetite; nausea; vomiting; discomfort or pain in the upper abdomen, particularly after eating. Weight loss may also occur. Vomiting of blood (haematemesis) may occur if there is ulceration.
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Haematemesis is vomiting of blood, the colour of which may be altered by digestion, as is also the case in melaena, or passage of blood with the faeces, in which the blood becomes dark and tarrylooking from the action of the intestinal fluids.
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