Vomiting reduction by slower food intake.
Psychogenic vomiting of retarded persons might be partly the result of stomach overloading. A retarded male subject was treated by spacing the food intake and teaching him to eat more slowly. Vomiting decreased during the spaced food intake, resumed during normal intake, and decreased again during the reinstated spaced intake. These results indicate the importance of food-intake factors in psychogenic vomiting.
D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors; D014839:Vomiting / Q000628:therapy*