Upper gastrointestinal bleeding - history

- Is it blood? – contents: dyes, tea, juice, beetroot • Coffee grounds vomiting – peptic ulcer, • Fresh blood – esophageal varices • Blood clot – esophageal varices • Small pieces of blood • Stool – melena?, bloody stool – in massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding • Other sources of blood – swallowed blood in breast fed infants, upper respiratory tract bleeding, sinuses, tooth, bleeding gums • How plentiful bleeding