What are the causes of nausea and vomiting in children?

If a child suffers from nausea and vomiting, parents will be very worried and must want to know the reasons for the child's nausea and vomiting. So what are the reasons for children's nausea and vomiting? Next, this article will introduce to you the causes of nausea and vomiting in children. Friends who want to know more about this can continue reading! Please see the detailed introduction below.

What are the causes of nausea and vomiting in children? The main causes of nausea and vomiting in children are as follows:

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. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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. I believe that after reading the above introduction, you have understood the reasons for nausea and vomiting in children. When your child experiences nausea and vomiting, you'll know what's causing it. It should be noted that if the child’s nausea and vomiting is not caused by improper eating, he or she needs to go to the hospital for treatment in time, and parents and friends must not be careless.