PEDIATRICS Vol. 46 No. 2 August 1970, pp. 319-321
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Antinauseant Drugs in Treatment of Epidemic or Virus Gastritis?

O. William Anderson M.D.1

1 1014 Boylston Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98104

The parents of a teenage girl called in obvious panic, too excited to give a reliable story and description of a child apparently in some type of seizure. On arrival in the hospital emergency room the child was conscious, and therefore not convulsing, but rigid with carpopedal spasm and much grimacing, but without hyperventilation.

On quizzing the parents it was learned that the child had been vomiting presumably because of a virus gastritis. The grandmother, a registered nurse, had medicated the child with prochlorperazine (Compazine) suppositories which she had in her possession.