Why do children develop cyclic vomiting syndrome?

In our daily life, it is common to see children vomiting, but some children experience periodic vomiting. What is going on? What are the causes? Let’s take a look together below!

1. Improper feeding or eating: Overfeeding during the neonatal period. Improper milk formula. Swallowing a lot of air while feeding. Infants and young children eat too much at one time or the food 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 have vomiting along with high fever, nausea and loss of appetite.

3. Digestive tract infectious diseases: gastritis, enteritis, dysentery, appendicitis and other diseases. Local stimulation can cause reflex vomiting. At this time, it is often accompanied by other digestive system symptoms such as nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea.

4. Nervous system diseases: Encephalitis, meningitis, bleeding or tumors in the head, craniocerebral trauma and other central nervous system diseases can also cause vomiting. The vomiting is characterized by no nausea before and the vomiting is projectile. But it 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, plant poisoning, drug poisoning, pesticide poisoning, etc. Almost all of them have vomiting symptoms. However, different poisonings have their own clinical characteristics, which can be used for identification.

7. Others: Vestibular dysfunction of the inner ear or Meniere's disease (water accumulation in the labyrinth of the inner ear membrane) causes severe vomiting, but is often accompanied by vertigo, visual rotation, and congenital digestive tract malformations in children, such as gastric torsion and hypertrophic pyloric obstruction. In addition, children with intestinal ascariasis also vomit severely when they have intestinal obstruction or biliary ascariasis.

Through the editor’s sharing above, you may have a certain understanding of the symptoms and causes of periodic vomiting in children. In the future, you must do a good job in children’s health care to prevent symptoms caused by improper care.