What causes vomiting in children?

Vomiting is a relatively common phenomenon. Of course, there are many reasons for vomiting. Sometimes it is caused by eating some unclean food, gastrointestinal discomfort or some diseases. Children's immunity is relatively weak. If they do not pay attention to their diet and daily life, they will experience some symptoms. Vomiting is also a common symptom in children.

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.

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.