Why does a 3-year-old child vomit frequently?

A 3-year-old baby's body is still developing in all aspects, and his stomach and intestines are also slowly developing. Because all aspects of the body are not fully developed, the resistance is relatively weak. Sometimes the baby will vomit frequently, which really makes the parents anxious. So they want to know why the 3-year-old child vomits frequently? Let's take a look below.

Among the various reasons, the most important ones are:

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 them 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 visual rotation; 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.

Everyone knows that for any disease, only by understanding the cause can we better treat the disease. The above article also introduces in detail why a 3-year-old child vomits frequently. In this way, parents who don't understand the disease very well can find treatment methods based on the cause and ensure that their baby recovers as soon as possible.