Other names: haematemesis, hematemesis

Vomiting blood or Haematemesis reflects a serious process affecting the esophagus, stomach or duodenum. Blood is either red or partially “digested” by gastric acid acquires the appearance of the coffee grounds.

Always check whether the source of bleeding is not in the mouth or nose and blood in vomit get this way. If not so, then it should be affected promptly transported to a medical facility, but it is preferable to transport rescue service initially innocuous-looking as bleeding may suddenly go into life-threatening. Vomiting blood may precede or accompany meleana, a stool with a tar-like semi-digested blood.

The source of bleeding in the esophagus to the duodenum can become different processes. In statistics lead duodenal and gastric ulcers, together with hemorrhagic gastropathy, which are the non-inflammatory hemorrhagic stomach disability arising from various causes (often unknown).

Another possible source as esophageal varices, which are a common consequence of severe liver impairment (eg. Alcoholic cirrhosis). Esophageal varices extend into the lumen of the esophagus, covers only a thin layer of tissue, and are therefore prone to mechanical failure (e.g. mere bread crust) during swallowing. Bleeding from esophageal varices can have a very dramatic progress, and it is difficult developable.

Less often is the cause of bleeding detected esophagitis (inflammation of the esophagus),Mallory-Weiss syndrome (bleeding comes after coughing or vomiting usually is not serious and spontaneously stops), or tumors or ulcers of the esophagus.