Biopsychosocial approaches to a patient with vomiting of 10 years' duration – a case of temporal lobe epilepsy

Abstract

Background: Vomiting is commonly encountered in clinical medicine. When organic gastrointestinal, metabolic, and brain diseases are ruled out, many cases are considered to be functional. We experienced an adult patient with epilepsy whose main symptom was vomiting. Biopsychosocial approaches were needed to control the symptoms.