What is the treatment for vomiting in children?

Vomiting is a common symptom in children, and there are many reasons for vomiting, such as poor diet, food poisoning, etc. When vomiting occurs, you should understand the specific cause and then treat the primary disease in time. During the treatment process, you should pay attention to dietary health and eat foods that are easy to digest and easily absorbed by the stomach and intestines.

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.

If a newborn vomits several hours after birth, the baby may inhale amniotic fluid during delivery; if the baby frequently vomits 24 to 36 hours after birth and does not have a bowel movement after birth, anal or rectal atresia should be considered; if the baby continues to vomit 1 to 2 weeks after birth and worsens in the third week, accompanied by weight loss and malnutrition, the baby needs to be observed for pyloric hypertrophy and stenosis; if the baby vomits coffee-colored mucus within a few hours after birth, the baby may accidentally swallow maternal blood. A 3-year-old child who repeatedly and persistently vomits brown substances may have a hiatal hernia.