Emergency treatment for children vomiting in the middle of the night

Many parents are particularly worried about their children's vomiting in the middle of the night, because if the children's vomiting in the middle of the night is not dealt with and treated in time, it will affect the children's health. Therefore, many parents want to fully understand the emergency treatment methods for children's vomiting in the middle of the night. The following content provides specific answers, and you can fully understand it.

Emergency treatment for vomiting: lying on your side and cleaning promptly

After the baby vomits, lie on his side to prevent vomitus from blocking the trachea and causing suffocation; use clean gauze to take out the vomitus from the mouth, wipe the area around the mouth clean, and change stained clothes in time. After cleaning, you can hold your baby upright to calm him down. In addition, you also need to observe the baby's vomit, facial expression, mental reaction, etc. after vomiting, so that you can describe these conditions to the doctor during the consultation to facilitate diagnosis.

The necessity of medical treatment is if the vomiting volume is large, the number of times is frequent, and it lasts for more than 24 hours; the vomiting is in a projectile state; the vomitus is green, bloody or fecal; the vomiting is accompanied by severe abdominal distension, high fever, convulsions (seizures), diarrhea, bloody stools, etc.

If the amount of vomiting is small, or the number of times is small, and the patient's mental response is good afterwards and it does not affect appetite, you can observe the patient overnight. If vomiting is caused by coughing, it is not necessarily a gastrointestinal problem. You need to pay attention to whether you have any respiratory diseases. If the vomiting is large and frequent, or it is jet-like vomiting, the vomitus is of unusual color, and it is accompanied by high fever, diarrhea, etc., you need to seek medical attention promptly.

Common conditions that may cause vomiting include:

Improper feeding (such as feeding too much, feeding too frequently, the baby inhaling too much air, exercising right after feeding, etc.); physiological and pathological gastroesophageal reflux; gastrointestinal infectious diseases (such as viral gastroenteritis, bacterial gastroenteritis, etc.); gastrointestinal manifestations of various infections or metabolic diseases; or one of the symptoms of food poisoning, acute peritonitis, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, intussusception, intestinal obstruction, meningitis, head trauma, etc.

Babies with vomiting and diarrhea should drink more water

If the baby urinates less (less than 5 to 6 wet diapers a day), has dry lips and mouth, cries but no tears, has sunken eye sockets, is excessively sleepy, and the soft part of the baby's head (anterior fontanelle) is sunken, it means that the baby has symptoms of dehydration. In addition to seeking medical attention in time, parents should give the baby more water. Light sugar and salt water are more suitable for babies to replenish the excreted electrolytes and prevent dehydration.

The above is a comprehensive introduction to the emergency treatment methods for children vomiting in the middle of the night. Therefore, for many parents, when their children vomit in the middle of the night, they must pay attention to it. Through the emergency treatment methods introduced above, when children vomit in the middle of the night, through the correct treatment methods, the children can recover as soon as possible.