Examples of gastroparesis

• Symptoms can begin with loss of sweating in the feet and bladder dysfunction and progress to symptomatic postural hypotension, excessive upper-body sweating, gastroparesis, diarrhoea and bladder atony.

• Unlike rumination, gastroparesis causes vomiting (in contrast to regurgitation) of food, which is not being digested further, from the stomach.

• Bulimia nervosa and gastroparesis are especially prevalent among the misdiagnoses of rumination.

• The vagus nerve becomes damaged by years of high blood glucose or insufficient transport of glucose into cells resulting in gastroparesis.

• Gastroparesis affects millions of individuals and is often never suspected and most patients have a delay in diagnosis.

• The antidepressant mirtazapine has proven effective in the treatment of gastroparesis unresponsive to conventional treatment.

• It also increases gastric emptying in people with diabetic gastroparesis.

• It is used as a treatment for gastroparesis.