Severe vomiting of pregnant women: a case from clinical practice

Severe vomiting of pregnant women (hyperemesis gravidarum) is a debilitating and potentially life-threatening pregnancy disease characterized by weight loss, malnutrition, manifested in the first half of gestation and characterized by dyspeptic disorders, with metabolic disorders, frequent vomiting (11-15 times a day and more often), a decrease in body weight over 5 kg per week, an increase in body temperature to subfebrile figures (in 20-30 % of patients), ictericity of sclera and skin (in 20-30 % of pregnant women), hyperbilirubinemia up to 60 mmol/l, stool retention, oliguria and pronounced ketonuria (in 70-100 % of patients).