vomiting blood

Posted By tom c. on March 11, 1999 at 12:49:14:







Last week, I woke up in the middle of the night and began vomiting.  It continued for about 2 hours off and on and was pretty violent.  Towards the latter stages of the vomiting, I noticed about 2-3 tablespoons of bright red blood in my vomit.  This really freaked me out.  It turns out, I had the stomach flu for the next 2-3 days (fever, diarrhea, etc.).  I feel fine now, other than a tad queasy every now and then.  I vomited so far, in fact, that I had some hemmorrhaging in my sclera of my eyes.  Anyway, my question is this:  is it possible to vomit so violently that blood appears in the vomit.  Thank you.