Causes of vomiting in 10-year-old children

Vomiting is a common phenomenon in life. For many adults, vomiting is very uncomfortable, but generally when the symptoms are not serious, they can be treated simply. If a 10-year-old child vomits, the parents will feel very uncomfortable seeing the child in pain. Parents should treat the child according to the cause of the child's vomiting.

Improper feeding or eating:

The child eats a large amount of food at one time or the food is difficult to digest.

Digestive dysfunction:

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.

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.

Neurological disorders:

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.

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.

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.

other:

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.