What causes children to vomit?

It is the common wish of many parents that their baby can grow up healthily. Many parents will find that their baby is always vomiting recently. Sometimes they vomit just after eating. Sometimes we feel very distressed when we see the child vomiting. In addition, the baby has obviously lost a lot of weight recently. This can easily lead to the child's inability to absorb the nutrition of food better. Let's understand the reasons for children's vomiting.

What causes children to vomit?

1. Gastrointestinal obstructive vomiting

It may be caused by congenital digestive tract malformations or certain acquired diseases that lead to digestive obstruction.

(1) If a baby vomits during the neonatal period, the baby may have esophageal atresia, gastric torsion, pyloric spasm, pyloric valve, duodenal atresia or stenosis of the annular pancreas, intestinal malrotation, jejunal atresia or stenosis, rectal and anal malformations (including anal atresia or stenosis, etc.), gastrointestinal duplication malformations and meconium peritonitis.

(2) Intestinal obstructive vomiting in infants and young children, congenital pyloric stenosis, delayed effusion of the pyloric synovium or pyloric spasm, intussusception and acquired intestinal volvulus.

(3) Vomiting in childhood may be caused by external intestinal wall compression, adhesions after meconium peritonitis, preduodenal portal vein mesenteric hiatus hernia, incarcerated inguinal oblique hernia or diaphragmatic hernia.

2. Infectious vomiting

Caused by upper respiratory tract infection, pneumonia and gastrointestinal infection.

3. Vomiting caused by central nervous system diseases

Various encephalitis, meningitis, cerebral hemorrhage, brain tumors and intracranial hypertension.

4. Nutritional and metabolic disorders

Infantile beriberi, uremia, metabolic acidosis, diabetic ketoacidosis.

5. Vestibular dysfunction

Meniere's syndrome.

6. Drugs and poisons irritate the gastrointestinal tract.

7. Others

Cyclic vomiting, recurrent vomiting.

There are many reasons why children vomit, usually caused by gastrointestinal diseases or indigestion, such as common intussusception or infection of the western tract. At the same time, brain diseases such as encephalitis and meningitis can easily cause vomiting in children. At the same time, improper diet can also easily cause vomiting. When a child vomits, parents must take the baby to the hospital for examination, and make timely adjustments after confirming the cause. When the baby vomits, you must also observe the baby's mental state and never give the baby medicine blindly.