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Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome as a cause of recurrent vomiting in type 1 diabetes

Published Date: 01st February 2021

Publication Authors: Balafshan T


Abstract
Abdominal pain and vomiting are common presentations to the emergency medical ward. Management of recurrent abdominal pain and vomiting can be difficult, especially in patients who have diabetes. People with diabetes can present with vomiting and abdominal pain that can cause a diagnostic dilemma. Are the symptoms due to an acute or chronic complication of their diabetes or to other causes? In patients with diabetes who also use cannabis, further diagnostic challenges can arise as recurrent vomiting and abdominal pain due to diabetic gastroparesis and cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) can present in similar ways. We present a case series of four patients with type 1 diabetes who had multiple admissions with abdominal pain and vomiting mimicking diabetic gastroparesis, all of whom were eventually diagnosed with CHS.

Aung, E; Balafshan, T; Wace, P; Weston, PJ. (2021). Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome as a cause of recurrent vomiting in type 1 diabetes. Practical Diabetes. 38 (1), 22-24

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