Food Allergy. Vomiting can be the only symptom of a food reaction. The vomiting comes on quickly after eating the food. Common foods are peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish such as shrimp. Hard coughing can also cause your child to throw up. This is more common in children with reflux. Motion Sickness. Vomiting and dizziness are triggered by motion. Sea sickness or fun-park ride sickness are the most common types.
Strongly genetic. Migraine Headaches. In children, most migraine headaches also have vomiting. Serious Causes. Vomiting alone without diarrhea should stop within about 24 hours. If it lasts over 24 hours, you must think about more serious causes.
Examples are appendicitis, a kidney infection, diabetes and head injury. A serious cause in young babies is pyloric stenosis. See below for more on this. Cyclic Vomiting. Cyclic vomiting is the most common cause of recurrent attacks of vomiting. Attacks have a sudden onset and offset.
Often occur in children who later develop migraine headaches. Pyloric Stenosis Serious Cause The most common cause of true vomiting in young babies.
Onset of vomiting is age 2 weeks to 2 months Vomiting is forceful. It becomes projectile and shoots out. Right after vomiting, the baby is hungry and wants to feed. In these babies, it becomes narrow and tight. Risk: weight loss or dehydration Treatment: cured by surgery.
Bacterial causes of nausea and vomiting have similar treatment to viral causes with the exception of antibiotic therapy. The use of antiemetic medications is also popular. Antiemetics are medications designed specifically to stop vomiting. Total dehydration can occur in hours if vomiting occurs multiple times with no fluid intake and accompanied by diarrhea. Dizziness, accompanied by dry mouth and weakness, is often a sign that you are becoming dehydrated.
Before the advent of IV fluids, dehydration was one of the major causes of death in the world. Loss of body fluid from vomiting can lead to electrolyte imbalance. When prolonged, an electrolyte imbalance can lead to dizziness, fainting and even worse, coma and death. Diarrhea, when associated with nausea and vomiting, should heighten your concerns regarding dehydration and seeking emergency care.
Losing fluids from both ends, you can become dehydrated much faster. Diarrhea often accompanies both viral and bacterial-induced nausea and vomiting illnesses. It can also be present as the main symptom and with little or no nausea or vomiting. When dehydration occurs with stomach illnesses, administering medications to stop vomiting and IV fluids if concerns about dehydration are common actions.
I'm Dr. Cindy Gellner, on The Scope. Announcer: Keep your kids healthy and happy. Gellner: We all have at one point or another and we'll all have it again at one point or another and we're seeing a lot of it going around lately. It's the stomach bug. It's not the flu. Everyone says, "I've got the stomach flu. There are a lot of other viruses though that can cause vomiting and diarrhea, including rotavirus, and adenovirus, and a bunch of other viruses we could name.
But the bottom line is it's no fun, and it's a big risk for kids who can sometimes get dehydrated. When do you know when to bring your child in for vomiting and diarrhea? Most vomiting is caused by the stomach bug. It's usually not caused by food poisoning that often.
However if more than one person gets sick at the exact time, food poisoning is something that you want to consider. If your child has vomiting without diarrhea and it lasts for several days or you see blood in it, that's the time to get checked out urgently, because that could be something much more serious than the stomach bug. But vomiting usually stops in about six to 24 hours.
If you have a baby and they are vomiting and it's like across the room shooting, that's not the stomach bug going around either. But most kids who vomit, if they are a baby they can spit up some, or you know, if they do catch this virus from somebody, then you're going to know. It's going to be a different form of vomiting than reflux or these other scary things. So when your child has vomiting you can usually expect diarrhea to come also, and usually within 24 hours.
How do you take care of your child who has vomiting and diarrhea? The most important thing with vomiting is you need to make sure your child is hydrated. That means they have enough fluid in them so that they have a moist mouth, they are still making tears, and they can have a wet diaper or use the bathroom to pee at least once every eight hours.
If they are not doing any of those things, then they are dehydrated. When your child is vomiting, you do not want to make them eat. That's a very common misconception that I have parents make. They think, well my child's vomiting.
They don't want to eat because they are vomiting, so I need to make sure they get food because otherwise they're going to lose weight.
It's okay, we expect your child to lose a little bit of weight with the stomach bug.
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