[A 'suppository for vomiting prevention']

Abstract

Three children, a girl aged 9 and two boys aged 2.5 and 6 years, presented with a stiff neck and fever. They had been treated for vomiting and diarrhoea with among other drugs metoclopramide or domperidone suppositories. As a result extrapyramidal signs had developed. These were cut by intravenous injection of biperiden. It is argued that gastroenteritis in children should be treated by oral rehydration only and that there is no place for antiemetics.