What happens when a child vomits acid?

Careful parents may find that their children vomit acid from time to time. If a child vomits acid, it may be due to some gastrointestinal diseases that cause nausea. For such symptoms, you should check in time to find out the cause.

In recent years, with the diversification of children's diet and the widespread use of food additives, the incidence of children's digestive tract diseases has become increasingly high. Chronic gastritis and ulcer disease (referring to gastric and duodenal ulcers) are common and frequently occurring diseases in adults. In the past, due to the limitation of examination methods, they did not attract the attention of pediatricians and parents. With the widespread use of gastroscopy and other examination methods, more and more children are found to suffer from gastritis and ulcer diseases.

Recurrent abdominal pain accompanies many growing children, but parents often don't pay much attention to it and just give their children some analgesics or painkillers. Once the pain is temporarily relieved, they stop treating the child. If abdominal pain occurs at any time and is accompanied by symptoms such as anorexia, acid reflux, bloating, heartburn, and the child does not like to eat and becomes thinner and thinner, nutrients cannot be supplied normally, then symptoms such as anemia and lack of concentration are likely to occur, thus affecting the child's learning and development. At this time, if correct treatment is not given, the above symptoms will worsen and cause harm to the child's health. Some children vomit frequently, which also affects their appetite. Severe vomiting can also cause acid-base imbalance and water and electrolyte disorder in the body. If not treated in time, it can even be life-threatening.

Vomiting blood caused by gastrointestinal diseases is also common in pediatrics and may also manifest as tarry stools. If the bleeding cannot be stopped successfully, shock or even death may quickly occur if the amount of bleeding is large. Generally, gastroscopy is used to find out the cause of children's abdominal pain and vomiting, and then a gastroenterologist gives a treatment plan, and the condition can be quickly brought under control.

If a child has frequent and recurrent abdominal pain, especially pain in the upper abdomen and around the navel, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, frequent vomiting, or obvious symptoms of indigestion, such as anorexia, acid reflux, warmth, upper abdominal fullness, heartburn, as well as foreign bodies in the upper gastrointestinal tract, polyp removal, gastric torsion reduction, unexplained anemia, pain behind the sternum that cannot be explained by cardiopulmonary disease, or existing upper gastrointestinal diseases that require reexamination or further diagnosis, further examination and treatment through gastroscopy can achieve very good results.