What medicine should children take for nausea and vomiting?

For children, vomiting is a relatively normal phenomenon. Sometimes the child may vomit because the child is fed too much breast milk. This situation can be eliminated by simply slightly changing the amount of breast milk. However, some parents have found that their children always feel nauseous and vomit when they do not drink milk, and they suspect that it is caused by disease. So, what medicine should children take for nausea and vomiting?

Clinical manifestations

Vomiting is just a symptom that causes great pain to the child. Before vomiting, the patient is pale, has upper abdominal discomfort (children often complain of abdominal pain), has anorexia, and vomits after eating or drinking. Protrusions sometimes come out of the mouth and nose. When vomiting is severe, the child will show clinical symptoms of dehydration and acidosis, such as thirst, oliguria, listlessness, red lips, and deep breathing. The causes are diverse and are accompanied by symptoms of the primary disease.

treat

The main purpose is to find out the cause and treat the primary disease. On this basis, symptomatic treatment is adopted.

1. Children who vomit should lie on their side or sit up, and rinse their mouths with warm water after vomiting. Give the child a small amount of fruit juice and light salt water to drink. If the cause is due to improper diet, take a rest and reduce food intake.

2. After vomiting stops or is relieved, give a small amount of lukewarm, easily digestible food or liquid food such as rice soup.

3. Those with dehydration or electrolyte imbalance should be given fluid replacement and electrolyte imbalance should be corrected in a timely manner as needed.

4. Those who vomit frequently should be given antiemetics and sedatives. Such as Lumina, Hibernation Spirit, Metoclopramide suppositories, etc., use Metoclopramide with caution.

5. Antispasmodics, such as belladonna mixture, atropine 654-2, propantheline, and 1% to 2% procaine.

prevention

1. Newborns and infants should not be breastfed too quickly. After breastfeeding, hold the baby upright, let him lie on the mother's shoulder, and pat his back gently until he hiccups.

2. Pay attention to eating at regular times and in regular amounts, avoid overeating, and do not overeat fried, greasy foods and cold drinks.

3. Pay attention to food hygiene and do not eat dirty or rotten food.

4. Strengthen physical exercise, enhance body resistance and prevent viral and bacterial infections.