Nausea and vomiting – questions from history

- Since when they occur, intensification • Time of day, meals • Projectile vomiting • Vomit content: food content, bile, blood, coffee grounds vomiting, stagnant vomiting, fecal vomiting • Accompanying symptoms: headache, abdominal pain, fever, diarrhoea • Epidemiological history: contact with people with contagious diseases, similar symptoms in other members of family