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Mar 15, 2011

Different causes of vomiting


One of the most common symptom of vomiting is when the baby is ill, raised it a number of reasons. Distinguish between different causes, symptomatic care, in order to achieve the best results.


Neonatal vomiting
Most of the newborn and baby spits out a small amount of food after eating, this is normal. This baby\'s spray pyloric sphincter of doors of sphincter relaxation, stress and related to improper feeding.
Nursing knowledge through improved feeding practices or with age, this vomiting will heal. We promote breastfeeding must be when Fowler\'s nurse, best use of the head high low. Mother scrubbed with warm water before each feeding nipples, breast and four fingers hold up, at the thumb placed on the nipple and areola, slows down the milk outflow; when artificial feeding, with disinfection before each feeding to milk, milk with nipple for baby to eat after, nipple holes not too large. After breastfeeding picked up the baby upright, with an empty hand patting his back, help him swallow air discharge.


Acute vomiting
Usually is one of the symptoms of infectious diseases of the digestive tract, such as acute gastric or enteritis, is due to viruses or bacteria, toxic substances caused by the invasion, often with diarrhea and abdominal pain occur simultaneously.
Nursing knowledge: baby to prevent dehydration, vomiting temporarily do not eat solid food, replacing it with a liquid diet, such as soup with, each for a few minutes to drink a spoonful (15 ml). If there is no other food containing sugar juice is also very effective, it can also help the baby to add strength. 8-12 hours of the cessation of vomiting, babies can eat mild foods, such as bananas, rice and baby special Apple sauce if it is a little baby, on the basis of the food with bread and soup.


Cyclic vomiting
It is a recurrent attacks of intractable vomiting, often start at 2~4sui. The cause has been thrown open, it was generally felt that with physical factors related

to upper respiratory tract infections, mood swings, fatigue, improper diet is its cause.
Nursing care of common sense: for easy and vomiting in children especially after coughing or vomiting after a cold, you should usually enhance nutrition and physical activity to improve organism immunity, prevent cold; eating regular, not too full; do not give your baby eat too spicy, smoky roast and fatty food. In addition, for this kind of phenomenon has its own interpretation of traditional Chinese medicine, baby stomach accumulated heat is prone to cyclical or deficient cold of spleen and stomach and vomiting, or you can use treatment methods to help the baby of organisation of the spleen and stomach in traditional Chinese medicine.

Vomiting signals – the risk of dehydration
Vomiting when serious babies can be dehydration, especially in less than half a year old baby, when the high temperature or fever, will soon be dehydration, following phenomena is a signal of dehydration:
* Obviously thirsty and parched lips.
* Sunken.
* Skin wrinkles, hair dry. Gently pinch up the abdominal skin, if you release the skin does not play back correctly, there is a dehydration.
* 4 hours no urination, or rare color is dark yellow urine.


Mother questions
Q baby things always sick after eating, how to deal with it?
A recurrent vomiting baby if you exclude the gastrointestinal inflammation, may be because the gastroesophageal reflux. You can help keep baby head high low side, elevate 15 ° to the head; on gastroesophageal reflux in babies, or help him to do some head side prone practice, 20 minutes, 2-4 times a day. But there must be special care during the prone position, preventing apnea, which may reduce the frequency of reflux, reducing the number of vomiting to prevent aspiration of vomit, and avoid the occurrence of aspiration pneumonia and asphyxia.
 
Q baby spit a medicine, even brought food to eat, do you have any good solution?
When feedin

g a liquid, liquid not too hot or too cold; difficult to feed the baby may also use a small amount of drug taking method multiple times when necessary can also take a stop for a moment and then taking. After vomiting timely clean the mouth, face, and neck skin, replacing the contaminated clothing, bed sheets.
 

Tips:
Observation at home
Normal milk spills.
Food and stomach.
Go to the hospital
Accompanied by fever, diarrhea and other symptoms.
Dizziness, headache, consciousness is not clear.
Spurt occurs.
Immediately sent to hospital
Baby dehydration occurs.
A black vomit or blood.
Abdominal pain.