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What Causes Severe Nausea And Vomiting After Alcohol Consumption?

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Posted on Fri, 7 Apr 2017
Question: I had a particularly large binge drinking on holidays and now ivs had naisea and vomitting for a week. I dont know when it will end. I cant get out of bed
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Answered by Dr. Bonnie Berger-Durnbaugh (46 minutes later)
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Hello XXXXXXX

By holidays, do you mean in December/January? Or something more recent?

Regardless, I strongly advise that you go in to an urgent care clinic tonight to be evaluated. With continued vomiting, you may be dehydrated, and also may have an electrolyte imbalance from the vomiting. In the urgent care, they can do an exam, access for dehydration, check your blood for signs of infection (via a CBC) and for potassium depletion and glucose level abnormalities (via a chemistry panel blood test); and can correct these with an IV with electrolytes. They can also give you an anti-emetic.

Given that it sounds as though this followed binge drinking, it's also possible that there could be some alcoholic hepatitis, which should be checked with a liver panel blood test.

There is also gastroenteritis ("stomach flu") going around in communities in the US, and so this could be related to that, but the treatment will be the same as I described above.

I hope this information helps. Please let me know if I can provide further information.
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Dr. Bonnie Berger-Durnbaugh

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What Causes Severe Nausea And Vomiting After Alcohol Consumption?

Brief Answer: Information Detailed Answer: Hello XXXXXXX By holidays, do you mean in December/January? Or something more recent? Regardless, I strongly advise that you go in to an urgent care clinic tonight to be evaluated. With continued vomiting, you may be dehydrated, and also may have an electrolyte imbalance from the vomiting. In the urgent care, they can do an exam, access for dehydration, check your blood for signs of infection (via a CBC) and for potassium depletion and glucose level abnormalities (via a chemistry panel blood test); and can correct these with an IV with electrolytes. They can also give you an anti-emetic. Given that it sounds as though this followed binge drinking, it's also possible that there could be some alcoholic hepatitis, which should be checked with a liver panel blood test. There is also gastroenteritis ("stomach flu") going around in communities in the US, and so this could be related to that, but the treatment will be the same as I described above. I hope this information helps. Please let me know if I can provide further information.