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Woman's Hour

Parenting: How do you cope with fear of vomiting?

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Does your fear of vomiting make parenting a challenge? Emetophobia, a fear of vomiting, is a relatively common but under-researched psychological disorder that mostly affects women. We speak with Lucy Burton, who’s been coping with emetophobia for most of her life, and is the mother of two young children. And Professor David Veale, a consultant psychiatrist at Maudsley hospital, which has a specialist centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma.

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Hi, this is the Woman's Our Parenting Podcast, this is Jane Garvey, and in this episode we are discussing

0:40.0

imatophobia, the fear of vomit or vomiting or both. It's under-researched, it is relatively common and it's much more likely to affect women.

0:50.0

Lucy Burton has it, she also now has two young children, and we get the expertise of Professor

0:56.1

David Viel who's a consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital.

1:00.6

Here's David defining a metaphobia.

1:03.0

It's predominantly a fear of vomiting of yourself.

1:05.0

Occasionally it's about other people vomiting, but then it's usually because they're contagious

1:09.0

and they'll pass on the vomiting to you.

1:11.0

Oh, I see.

1:12.0

So it's rooted in a fear of infection is

1:14.4

mainly partly okay. Lucy tell me about your own experience of it. Well as a small

1:19.9

child I never liked it when other people vomited I mean who does but I would go and

1:24.4

hide in another part of the house if my little brother was being ill but I

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