Causes of vomiting and diarrhea in children

Causes of vomiting and diarrhea in children

The reason why children vomit and have diarrhea is that their physique is weak, and there are many hidden dangers in some aspects. It is very uncomfortable for children to have diarrhea. There are reasons for this. Let's share the reasons for children's vomiting and diarrhea.

Causes of vomiting and diarrhea in children 1 Children's vomiting and diarrhea are common in gastrointestinal diseases. The cause of vomiting and diarrhea may be a virus infection, a bacterium or a sparganum, whether it is digestible food (such as too sweet food or undercooked meat products).

Symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea in children

More serious vomiting and diarrhea are harmful to the baby's physical and mental health. Because vomiting and diarrhea will make the human body lose a lot of water and carbonate ionization, which will quickly cause dehydration symptoms.

Diet after vomiting and diarrhea

Patients will lose appetite after vomiting and diarrhea, so they don't have to eat indigestible food, such as too sweet and greasy food (ice cream, fried food, etc. Sometimes, after 24 hours of vomiting and diarrhea, you can eat some general foods, such as bananas, apples, millet porridge, apple juice, etc., but you don't have to eat too much. Most patients will return to normal diet after three days, but they will have symptoms such as vomiting and loss of appetite in the first few days, so there is no need to force dieting.

Treatment of vomiting and diarrhea

Vomiting and diarrhea are usually caused by viral infection. If your child has no main symptoms of dehydration and is in good spirits, you can adjust your diet and take Changweikang, Jianpi Powder and Smecta. It will be fine in 3-5 days. Pay attention to drink plenty of water. If the child is mentally ill, urinates less, and is dehydrated, it is necessary to drip, but drip is only a liquid, and it cannot cure diarrhea. In addition, astringent and antidiarrheal drugs such as tannic acid protein can be added, and Xiaomi decoction can be taken frequently.

Prevention of vomiting and diarrhea in children

Vomiting and diarrhea are mostly related to diet, so it is important to ensure physical and mental health and an effective diet. For example, don't eat unclean fresh fruit, don't eat too many sweets or greasy food.

In addition, most diarrhea may be caused by virus infection during defecation. It is necessary to immediately remove the baby's defecation feces and solve the baby's cleaning problem. Mom and dad should also do their own cleaning and hygiene, such as washing hands frequently and disinfecting. Especially after the baby defecates or after mom and dad solve the defecation, they should wash their hands and disinfect.

Causes of vomiting and diarrhea in children are 2 1, poor feeding or eating.

Excessive breastfeeding, poor milk secret recipe and swallowing a lot of gas when drinking milk all lead to vomiting.

2. Abnormal digestion and absorption.

Covered by infectious diseases, if you suffer from upper respiratory tract infection, acute bronchitis, lung infection and septicemia, you will often have high fever, nausea and vomiting, and loss of appetite.

3. Infectious diseases of digestive system

Gastropathy, colitis, acute enteritis, appendicitis and other diseases can cause reflex vomiting due to some stimuli, which will be accompanied by digestive tract diseases such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea.

4. Central nervous system diseases

Encephalitis, myocarditis, head bleeding or malignant tumor, brain trauma, etc. can also cause vomiting, showing that there is no nausea and vomiting before vomiting, but it is usually accompanied by other central nervous system diseases, such as headache, depression, always wanting to sleep, and even exhaustion and syncope.

5. Spiritual elements

Some children will vomit because of mental stress, anxiety or depression caused by some reasons. Repeated vomiting is sometimes related to mental factors.

6. Poisoned

Including all kinds of poisoning, such as food poisoning, toxic animal poisoning, green plant poisoning, therapeutic drug poisoning, pesticide poisoning and so on. It is basically vomiting, but different toxic substances have their own clinical and medical characteristics and can be distinguished.

7. Fever, cold or other upper respiratory tract infection

Upper respiratory tract infection can also cause vomiting, because the baby is very easily blocked by a runny nose, causing nausea and vomiting.

8, excessive sobbing or dry cough

Sobbing or dry cough for too long can also cause your baby's nausea and vomiting.

9. Other things

Vestibular dysfunction of the ear canal or Meniere's disease (loss of water storage in the inner eardrum) has strong vomiting, but it is often accompanied by dizziness and blurred vision; Congenital digestive system abnormalities in children, such as gastric volvulus and hypertrophic pyloric obstruction. In addition, when intestinal obstruction or biliary ascariasis occurs in children with intestinal ascariasis, vomiting is also very serious.

The baby vomited within half a month.

1, pregnant women vomit amniotic fluid

Because the amniotic fluid swallowed by pregnant women during childbirth has a stimulating effect on the stomach, they vomit several times on the day after delivery or on this day, and the stomach contents contaminated by amniotic fluid can be relieved by themselves. What's more, doctors can give gastric lavage, which usually gets better soon.

2, stomach torsion

The diagnosis must be based on X-ray examination.

3. Esophageal atresia or stenosis

When I was born, I vomited every time I fed water or milk. The milk has not been digested and absorbed, and there is esophageal mucus.

4. Gastrointestinal atresia

Ileal atresia is common. The clinical symptoms are intestinal obstruction and frequent vomiting 24 hours after birth. The vomit may contain bile, accompanied by abdominal distension, gastrointestinal type and no normal meconium.

5, anal or duodenal atresia.

There is no meconium after birth, and vomiting and abdominal distension appear after 24 ~ 36 hours. Vomiting can be mixed with meconium, and abdominal distension is serious and cannot be relieved. The anus and duodenum should be carefully examined.

6. Fetal intestinal obstruction

Because of congenital chemical fiber cystic degeneration of pancreas, pancreatic vesicles are reduced, pancreatic metabolism is reduced, fetal feces are sticky, blocking the stomach, and most of them just start vomiting and abdominal distension after birth. If they get treatment, they can get immediate relief.

7. Malrotation of the stomach or intestine

It is a common disease to get sick within one week after birth or at all ages and often vomit.

8. Hirschsprung's disease

Those with earlier onset and more severe symptoms have sigmoid colon or abdominal distension and vomiting within one week after birth because they have no defecation.

9. Head birth injury

Neonatal cerebral hemorrhage, subdural abscess, ventricular syndrome, etc. In this case, vomiting occurs shortly after birth, and it is relatively jet, often accompanied by sudden hissing crying (brain crying), Qing Wu, febrile convulsion, syncope and other diseases.

Chinese medicine believes that the cause of children's vomiting

1, caused by diet, poor feeding.

If you eat too much milk and eat too many wet, cold and indigestible ingredients, the milk will stay in your stomach and cause vomiting.

2. The servant fell into fear.

Children's growth and development is not perfect, full of arrogance and cowardice, and easy to get emotional. If you see something dirty with your own eyes and understand the buzzing sound, you suddenly fall down and your pawn is frightened. Panic leads to confusion of qi, fear leads to confusion of qi, and qi oscillates, which leads to liver fire against the stomach and qi against the stomach, thus leading to vomiting.

3. Spleen and stomach weakness

If the lactating mother usually likes to eat cold products, the milk is cold and thin, and the baby eats its milk, and the stomach is cold; It can also be due to insufficient natural resources endowment, weak spleen and stomach, and easy to catch cold; Or children eat more fruits and vegetables to eat coolness, because cold is cold; Or have taken a mild cold attack agent in the current medical history; Or experience the evil of cold syndrome, all of which can cause cold to condense at acupoints, stagnation of middle yang, loss of stomach harmony, and dampness to commit, resulting in vomiting.

4. Liver qi invading the stomach

Children also have emotional theme activities, such as discomfort in the natural environment or being scolded, which will cause emotional depression, leading to stagnation of liver fire, nausea and vomiting caused by the rise and fall of qi.

5, the stomach has accumulated heat.

Because wet nurses like fried and spicy food, milk accumulates heat, and children eat milk, and heat accumulates in their stomachs; Very young children eat spicy and hot products, and heat accumulates in their stomachs; Experience shows that the accumulation of cold and dampness in summer and autumn in the middle jiao can lead to the dereliction of duty of the gastrointestinal elevator and the vomiting of stomach qi.

What should the baby do if he vomits?

1, let the child sit up and tilt his head to one side to prevent vomit from choking in the bronchus.

2. After vomiting, rinse your mouth with warm water to clean the inside of your mouth and remove the odor. Babies can clean the inside of the mouth according to frequent water feeding.

3. Feed water frequently and drink more to ensure water supply and prevent excessive dehydration due to water shortage. The temperature should be hot in winter and cold in summer, and warm water is easy to cause vomiting.

4, pay attention to diet, don't eat too much, try to eat less. You don't have to eat greasy and spicy food to prevent stomach irritation. Soft food and semi-liquid food (such as millet porridge or fresh noodles) should be added after vomiting, and gradually connected to the general diet.

5, pay attention to the observation of vomiting, the relationship between vomiting and diet and dry cough, the frequency of vomiting, the contents spit out in the stomach, etc.

6, try to stay in bed, don't have to change posture often, otherwise it is easy to cause vomiting again.