0 a medical condition in which the stomach does not empty properly because of a problem with nerve signals to the stomach rather than a blockage
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.
