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What Causes Vomiting Dark Brown Matter?

Posted on Wed, 14 Jun 2017

Question: My husband has had one incident of dark brown vomit. Is this serious? He was very nauseous and still is somewhat. We just came back from a trip to the beach and for lunch had a bowl of crab soup. I thought that that might have been the cause of his discomfort. and problem.
He is a type 2 well controlled diabetic.

Answered by Dr. Geeta Sundar (26 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Yes any food can irritate the stomach and cause severe acidity and bleeding

Detailed Answer:
Hi welcome to Health care magic,
Yes any food like crab soup can irritate the stomach and cause severe acidity and bleeding.

Dark brown vomit indicates altered blood from the stomach. If it was a single bout you may not have to worry too much.
Give him Omeprazole 20 mg twice a day along with a liquid antacid--2 tsf three times a day--for 3 days.
If it repeats--show your doctor--especially since he is a Diabetic

Regards

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vaishalee Punj

Follow up: Dr. Geeta Sundar (56 minutes later)

My concern is weather the problem was from the crab soup being "tained," and does he have food poising? the symptoms started about 4 hours after he had eaten it. He had several hours of nauseousness before he threw up.

Answered by Dr. Geeta Sundar (10 hours later)

Brief Answer:
it has to be irritation and not tainted

Detailed Answer:
Hi XXXXXXX

It has to be irritation and not tainted. If it was tainted, he would continue to throw up followed by loose motions. Hope this clarifies it further.

Let me know if I can assist you further.

Regards

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Arnab Banerjee