What causes children to vomit?

Everyone is very familiar with vomiting. We have all vomited in our lives. Of course, there are many reasons for vomiting. Many people vomit due to overeating, cold body and some diseases. When a child has vomiting symptoms, parents should find out the cause of the vomiting and provide correct care. If the child's vomiting symptoms are severe, the child must be taken to the hospital for treatment.

1. Gastrointestinal obstructive vomiting

It may be caused by congenital digestive tract malformations or certain acquired diseases that lead to digestive obstruction.

(1) If a baby vomits during the neonatal period, the baby may have esophageal atresia, gastric torsion, pyloric spasm, pyloric valve, duodenal atresia or stenosis of the annular pancreas, intestinal malrotation, jejunal atresia or stenosis, rectal and anal malformations (including anal atresia or stenosis, etc.), gastrointestinal duplication malformations and meconium peritonitis.

(2) Intestinal obstructive vomiting in infants and young children, congenital pyloric stenosis, delayed effusion of the pyloric synovium or pyloric spasm, intussusception and acquired intestinal volvulus.

(3) Vomiting in childhood may be caused by external intestinal wall compression, adhesions after meconium peritonitis, preduodenal portal vein mesenteric hiatus hernia, incarcerated inguinal oblique hernia or diaphragmatic hernia.

2. Infectious vomiting

Caused by upper respiratory tract infection, pneumonia and gastrointestinal infection.

3. Vomiting caused by central nervous system diseases

Various encephalitis, meningitis, cerebral hemorrhage, brain tumors and intracranial hypertension.

4. Nutritional and metabolic disorders

Infantile beriberi, uremia, metabolic acidosis, diabetic ketoacidosis.

5. Vestibular dysfunction

Meniere's syndrome.

6. Drugs and poisons irritate the gastrointestinal tract.

7. Others

Cyclic vomiting, recurrent vomiting.

Treatment of vomiting in children

1. Children who vomit should lie on their side or sit up, and rinse their mouths with warm water after vomiting. Give the child a small amount of fruit juice and light salt water to drink. If the cause is due to improper diet, take a rest and reduce food intake.

2. After vomiting stops or is relieved, give a small amount of lukewarm, easily digestible food or liquid food such as rice soup.

3. Those with dehydration or electrolyte imbalance should be given fluid replacement and electrolyte imbalance should be corrected in a timely manner as needed.

4. Those who vomit frequently should be given antiemetics and sedatives. Such as Lumina, Hibernation Spirit, Metoclopramide suppositories, etc., use Metoclopramide with caution.

5. Antispasmodics, such as belladonna mixture, atropine 654-2, propantheline, and 1% to 2% procaine.