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Question
02 Sep 2007
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Throughing up blood
A friend of mine's son is throughing up blood. What can it be?
CyberDoc
Dear Karie
Thank you for visiting health24.com.
It is possible that he has a bleeding gastric ulcer. I suggest that he consults a Surgeon to have a gastroscopy done, in order to assess if he in fact has one that is causing him to vomit blood.
Kind regards
Dr Anrich Burger
Thank you for visiting health24.com.
It is possible that he has a bleeding gastric ulcer. I suggest that he consults a Surgeon to have a gastroscopy done, in order to assess if he in fact has one that is causing him to vomit blood.
Kind regards
Dr Anrich Burger
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