What causes women to vomit?

Vomiting is a very common symptom and a complication that can occur with many diseases. If you experience vomiting, you should consider whether you have gastrointestinal lesions, gastrointestinal infections, abnormal body functions, brain and nervous system diseases, or poisoning. Below, we will introduce in detail the causes of women's vomiting, treatment and care, as well as preventive health care methods!

1. Causes of vomiting:

1. Organic obstruction of the digestive tract: The downward movement of contents of the esophagus, stomach or intestine is blocked and forced to flow backward, resulting in vomiting. Such as congenital digestive tract malformations (occlusion or stenosis in different parts); older children are more likely to suffer from acquired intestinal torsion, intussusception, and intestinal obstruction (such as common ascaris obstruction).

2. Digestive tract infectious diseases: Enteritis, gastritis, and appendicitis may cause reflex vomiting due to the irritation of the stomach and intestines by inflammation, often accompanied by abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea, and bloating.

3. Abnormal body functions: If systemic infection or metabolic disorders occur, they are often accompanied by poisoning symptoms such as fever, loss of appetite, nausea, and abdominal distension.

4. Diseases of the cranial and nervous system: If symptoms of intracranial hypertension, meningeal irritation or intracranial space-occupying lesions occur, central projectile vomiting may be caused. There is no nausea before vomiting, but it is accompanied by other neurological symptoms such as headache, drowsiness, coma, convulsions, etc.

5. Poisoning: Vomiting caused by local irritation of the gastrointestinal tract and the effect of the poison on the central nervous system.

2. Treatment and Nursing

Mild vomiting has little impact on your health and does not require treatment. Severe vomiting not only causes the vomiting of large amounts of water, but also electrolytes, resulting in symptoms of dehydration and acid-base imbalance, which requires emergency treatment.

1. Fast for 6 to 8 hours. Mild or moderate dehydration can be treated with "oral rehydration salts" in small amounts and multiple times. Most children can correct dehydration and acidosis. If the condition cannot be corrected or the child cannot tolerate oral rehydration, the best way is to correct it with intravenous infusion based on blood biochemical tests.

2. Treat the primary disease. For surgical obstructive diseases, surgery should be performed to relieve the obstructed segment. If vomiting is medical in nature, the underlying disease should be treated. If the baby is fed improperly and swallows a lot of gas, the mother should place the child on her shoulder and pat her back after feeding to make the child burp and expel the gas.

3. Antiemetics should be taken. The safest and most effective drug is metoclopramide, 0.3 mg per kilogram of body weight, 3 times a day, 15 to 30 minutes before meals.

4. In case of recurrent vomiting, you can drink small amounts of cold boiled water or ice water multiple times during the fasting period. Drinking warm water can easily cause vomiting.

3. Preventive health care

1. Eat at regular times and in regular amounts. Food should be fresh and clean. Do not overeat spicy, roasted, or greasy food.

2. Do not breastfeed too quickly to prevent swallowing of air. After breastfeeding, you can hold the baby's body upright and pat his back gently to help the inhaled air be expelled.

3. For those with mild vomiting, you can eat easily digestible liquid food and eat small meals frequently. Those with severe vomiting should temporarily fast.

4. When vomiting, the child should be placed on his side to prevent vomiting from entering the trachea.

5. When administering the medicine, the liquid should not be too hot. The medicine should be taken slowly and in small amounts and multiple times. If necessary, take a sip, stop for a while, and then take again.