What to do if your child vomits after eating

Children's digestive systems are actually not fully developed. Because of this, children often suffer from various gastrointestinal problems due to improper diet. For example, vomiting after eating is a common symptom. In addition to improper feeding and abnormal digestive function that can cause children to vomit after eating, gastrointestinal infectious diseases, nervous system diseases, mental factors or poisoning can also cause children to vomit after eating.

1. Improper feeding or eating

Neonatal feeding: excessive feeding, improper milk formula, swallowing of 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, such as upper respiratory tract infection, bronchitis, pneumonia, sepsis and other diseases, are often accompanied by high fever, nausea, loss of appetite, and vomiting.

3. Digestive tract infectious diseases

Diseases such as gastritis, enteritis, dysentery, appendicitis, etc. 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. Nervous system 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, plant poisoning, drug and pesticide poisoning, 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.