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What Is The Cause Of Nausea In An Elderly Female?

hello dr grief i am writting to you as alast resorton behalf of my mother inlaw who head three stents put into her arteries ruptured causing blood around the heart, this was done at long island jewish hospital by a dr. gupta. the blood around the heart was subsuquently alleviated. she was released from the hospital too soon (within acouple of days) without longer care an monitoring. she started to experience nausia and would throw her food up.about a week later she was admitted into new york hospittal in queens under dr. silvio tasso who is her primary care doctor.dr.tasso prescribed a full body mri which showed a giant embolism blocking her main artery to her lungs, she couldn t breath so dr. tasso sent over the mri report to weil cornel medical center in nyc.they did a brand new procedure wozanahere they stuck a tube down her neck to her arterie and injected a chemical to break down the blood clot which thank g-d it did. subsuquently her heart stopped beating and apace maker was incertid. she still wasn t eating food all this time. weil cornel medical center released her without being able to diagnose the nausea condition to ozanum hall nursing home in bayside queens n.y. she has benn there for the past month and only being able to eat crumbs of food. most of the food she tries to eat but throws up. feces was found in her stomach the nurses under drs. order (don t no i m not the proxy) tried milk of magnesia and enemas which are not working to remove stool in her stomach. i am not a dr. but believe this is her problem. she wants to live but is losing the will to do so. the daughter is scared for her to have an endoscopy because she is on blood thinners, and a feeding tube for the same reason. isn t there a small scope that can go down her esophogus like the ones an ent uses to put up your nose and down your throat? should we put her north shore lij university hospital or even john hopkins university hospital which is way futher away. please help us in this matter she is 72 years old not that old and critical.what would cause the nauseousness and what can we do thank you very much in this matter please respond after your research asap the son inlaw yours truly nm,
Thu, 30 Nov 2017
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Hello,
Thank you for your query.
Based on your query, it looks like she has an intestinal obstruction.
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What Is The Cause Of Nausea In An Elderly Female?

Hello, Thank you for your query. Based on your query, it looks like she has an intestinal obstruction.