What causes nausea and vomiting in children?

It is the common wish of every parent that every child can grow up healthily. However, we always encounter physical problems with children in our lives. Among them, nausea and vomiting in children is the most common phenomenon. It is often caused by gastrointestinal diseases, which will lead to children being unable to better absorb the nutritional value of food. However, we must grasp the cause and then prescribe the right medicine. Let’s understand the reasons for nausea and vomiting in children.

What causes nausea and vomiting in children?

1. Improper feeding or eating: Overfeeding during the neonatal period, improper milk formula, swallowing large amounts of air while feeding; infants and young children eating large amounts at one time or food that is difficult to digest.

2. Abnormal digestive function: Systemic infectious diseases. If you suffer from upper respiratory tract infection, bronchitis, pneumonia, sepsis and other diseases, you will often experience vomiting along with high fever, nausea, loss of appetite, etc.

3. Digestive tract infectious diseases: gastritis, enteritis, dysentery, appendicitis and other diseases can cause reflex vomiting due to local irritation, which is often accompanied by other digestive system symptoms such as nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea.

4. Neurological diseases: Central nervous system diseases such as encephalitis, meningitis, intracranial hemorrhage or tumors, and craniocerebral trauma can also cause vomiting, which is characterized by no nausea before vomiting and projectile vomiting, but is often accompanied by other symptoms of the nervous system, such as headache, mental depression, drowsiness, and even convulsions and coma.

5. Mental factors: Some children may vomit due to excessive mental stress or anxiety caused by certain reasons. Recurrent vomiting is sometimes related to mental factors.

6. Poisoning: including various poisonings, such as food poisoning, poisonous animals, plants, drugs, pesticides, etc., almost all of which have vomiting symptoms, but different poisonings have their own clinical characteristics for identification.

7. Others: Vestibular dysfunction of the inner ear or Meniere's disease (hydromatous accumulation in the inner ear membrane and labyrinth) causes severe vomiting, but is often accompanied by vertigo and spinning vision; congenital gastrointestinal malformations in children, such as gastric torsion, hypertrophic pyloric obstruction, etc. In addition, vomiting is also severe in children with intestinal ascariasis who have intestinal obstruction or biliary ascariasis.

The above is an introduction to the causes of nausea and vomiting in children. After understanding it, we know that children’s nausea and vomiting are generally caused by gastrointestinal diseases and digestive system diseases. We must always observe the children’s mental state in our daily lives, and also pay attention to the adjustment of their diet.