12. Nausea and Vomiting: The Turbulent Upheaval
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Nausea swiftly embeds itself into the daily reality of someone grappling with intussusception. This unsettling feeling serves as a persistent, unpleasant backdrop. It gently gnaws at the individual, a constant reminder of the tumult below.
In children, facial expressions often convey this nascent nausea vividly. Their suddenly pallid complexion and expressions of discomfort silently communicate the internal churning. Parents find themselves attuned to these subtle visual cues.
Eventually, nausea crescendos into vomiting, a violent, involuntary expulsion. The physical act of vomiting is not merely unpleasant. It’s a blatant, powerful statement of the internal disarray caused by the intussuscepting bowel segments. (12)
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