The following are the most important diseases or complications that may be contributed to by vomiting (emesis):
Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases (E00-E90).
- Malnutrition due to anorexia (loss of appetite) and decreased food intake.
Mouth, esophagus (food pipe), stomach, and intestines (K00-K67; K90-K93).
- Gastric ulcers – ulcers of the stomach.
- Acid damage to tooth enamel
Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified (R00-R99).
Causes (external) of morbidity and mortality (V01-Y98).
- Aspiration – vomit enters the trachea and lungs and then often leads to pneumonia (pneumonia)
- Desiccation – dehydration of the body with loss of vital blood salts such as sodium.
