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. 2009 May 15:208–246. doi: 10.1016/B0-72-168903-5/50014-8

TABLE 9-1.

Major Causes of Acute Vomiting in Dogs and Cats

  • Eating Inappropriate or Spoiled Foods

  • Motion Sickness

  • Postoperative Nausea

  • Acute Gastritis-Enteritis (various viral or bacterial agents or toxins)

  • Parvoviral enteritis (dogs and cats)

  • Hemorrhagic gastroenteritis

  • Parasites

  • Gastrointestinal (GI) Obstruction

  • Obstructing foreign body

  • Linear foreign body

  • Intussusception

  • Dietary Indiscretion

  • Overeating

  • Eating inappropriate or spoiled foods

  • Acute Pancreatitis

  • Drug Administration

  • Adriamycin

  • Chloramphenicol

  • Cisplatin

  • Cyclophosphamide

  • Digitalis

  • Erythromycin

  • Narcotics

  • Nitrofurantoin

  • Tetracycline

  • Theophylline

  • Xylazine

  • Intoxications

  • Ethylene glycol

  • Herbicides

  • Organophosphates

  • Strychnine