What is the difference between baby vomiting and spitting up milk?

It is quite common for babies to vomit or spit up milk. However, we all know that there are differences between vomiting and spitting up milk, and the reasons are different. If they are caused by some diseases, the harm to the baby will be greater. So the following is a detailed introduction to the reasons and differences between baby vomiting and spitting up milk.

1. Spitting up milk (spilling up milk) is a phenomenon of milk reflux. The spitted up milk (spilling up milk) is very close to the mouth or flows out along the corners of the mouth. Vomiting milk is caused by violent gastric peristalsis, which causes food to reflux from the gastroesophageal tube and then spit out from the mouth. The force of the spitting is relatively strong, a bit like a jet. This kind of vomiting of milk occasionally occurs in normal babies, but it is relatively rare. If the baby often experiences this situation recently, it indicates that the baby may be sick. If accompanied by coughing, diarrhea, convulsions, fever, convulsions, etc., you must go to the hospital.

2. Almost all newborn babies will spit up when they are infected by bacteria or viruses. In mild cases, it may be a cold, or in severe cases, it may be sepsis, meningitis, encephalitis, brain damage, intracranial hemorrhage, etc.

3. If a newborn baby frequently vomits milk, you should suspect whether the baby's digestive system is unhealthy. For example, babies with pyloric spasm or stenosis, intestinal atresia, or anal atresia will vomit milk.

4. After feeding, babies often spit up and spit up milk. Generally speaking, there is not much difference between mild spitting up and regurgitation, and no special treatment is required. Patting your baby to burp after feedings can help reduce spitting up and spitting up.

5. Spitting up and regurgitating milk actually both refer to the phenomenon of milk flowing out of the baby's mouth. The only difference is that spitting up milk means that the food in the stomach is forcefully emptied and the amount is relatively large; regurgitating milk means that the contents of the esophagus or stomach are involuntarily reversed to the outside of the mouth. The baby may just have a burp, causing a small amount of milk to overflow from the corners of the mouth.

6. Generally speaking, there is not much difference between mild vomiting and regurgitation, and no special treatment is required. Sometimes when babies have a cold or are sick, they may spit up more severely than usual. However, as the baby grows older, this situation will improve significantly. However, if the baby has severe projectile vomiting, in severe cases the milk will flow out of the nostrils, then parents must pay special attention and take the baby to the hospital for examination as soon as possible.