What if you feel sick but not vomit?

The feeling of nausea interferes with a person's normal life and wants to get rid of this symptom. The methods of struggle depend on the cause of the onset of the disease. An accurate diagnosis will be made only by a doctor, but you need to be able to provide first aid. Let's consider some examples and solutions to the problem.

Toxicosis

Pregnant women are prone to toxicosis. The body undergoes hormonal changes in the first thirteen weeks, which causes digestive upset. Nausea is not always accompanied by vomiting, but gagging may also occur. It is necessary to help eliminate the opposite state.

Causes of toxicosis in pregnant women:

• Violation of the diet - there are changes in taste preferences. Foods consumed before pregnancy become unpalatable and cause nausea. There is a feeling of hunger or a desire to eat unusual food. The woman stops eating well. Recommendations: Try to eat small meals five times a day. In the morning, without getting out of bed, eat a cookie, fruit, or drink yogurt. Drinking water will help.
• Changes in the hormonal background - a major restructuring of the body begins. The hormone progesterone is produced, which is necessary for the normal course of pregnancy, but it leads to a feeling of nausea. Recommendations: Visit your endocrinologist regularly if you feel weak and nauseous.
• Overwork and stress - a woman spends most of her energy on creating a new person and needs more rest than she was before an interesting position. The news about the replenishment of the family brings stress to the expectant mother, no matter how she hides her excitement. Recommendations: get more rest, observe a sleep and wakefulness routine. In case of strong excitement, you can drink valerian tablets, tea with chamomile or lemon balm.
• Inflammation in the genitourinary system, infections are dangerous for the unborn child. The problem should be solved before conception, but if there is pain during pregnancy in the abdomen or genitals, accompanied by nausea, contact your doctor.
• Colds and viral diseases - a pregnant woman is brought a real crisis, including nausea. Anti-cold medications should be selected by a doctor, since not all of them are suitable for pregnant women.
• Ectopic pregnancy - accompanied by severe or mild pain in the lower abdomen, bloody discharge from the genitals, nausea. See your doctor immediately as this condition is life threatening.

During pregnancy, you periodically need to see a doctor.

Poisoning

Reason: You have eaten stale food, drank large quantities of alcoholic beverages, or taken the wrong medication. The abdomen is twisting and puffy, a state of severe nausea, but does not vomit. The symptom is unpleasant. Harmful substances have entered the body, which must be eliminated faster. The condition can be relieved by self-induction of gagging. Insert two fingers into your mouth deeper towards the tonsils, leaning over the basin or toilet. Drink several cups of water to flush out the stomach and cleanse out harmful substances.

Poisoning, like an intestinal infection, is often accompanied by diarrhea, nausea turns into vomiting, and body temperature rises. There are drugs that absorb toxins - "activated carbon", "Enterosgel". If the condition does not improve, an ambulance should be called.

Side effects of drugs taken for other illnesses can cause nausea. In such a case, it is necessary to re-read the instructions, cancel or replace the medicine, after consulting with your doctor. Do not self-medicate, pills may have contraindications.

Vestibular reaction

People prone to motion sickness in transport (plane, yacht, bus or car) have a sensitive vestibular apparatus. They are nauseous, but not vomiting. The passenger's poor health is aggravated by the discontent of the fellow travelers. Long distance travel becomes a whole challenge.

You can get rid of unpleasant symptoms in the following ways:

• Eat a light meal before your trip.
• Distracted while traveling - reading a magazine, solving crosswords, playing games on a smartphone.
• In transport, one strives to look primarily forward, at static objects, horizontal lines. Avoid flickering views from the window - trees, houses.
• Provide cool air - start air conditioning, open windows.
• Drink motion sickness pills - can be bought at the pharmacy without a doctor's prescription.
• Suck mints.

The recommendations should be followed for at least a week.

Stress

Nausea against the background of a nervous shock occurs when a person is frightened, learned the sad news, or fell into hysterics. Isolated cases can be ignored, but regular ones require specialist intervention. The patient will be prescribed sedatives and counseling to see how the medications work.

Binge eating

Fans of hearty food (high-calorie, fatty foods) run the risk of getting nausea for dessert. For a healthy lifestyle, you need to follow the diet - 5 meals a day in small portions, do not abuse fatty foods, finish the meal without waiting for the feeling of a full stomach. In this case, health and physical activity will be in order.

Smells

A person who finds himself in an area (room) with a disgusting or irritating odor experiences nausea. Recommendations: leave the area, or ventilate and get rid of the source of the stench. Frequent sensation of a specific smell dulls perception and addiction sets in (if it is impossible to get rid of the source). You can also use a gauze bandage on your face or a gas mask.

Sunstroke

Prolonged exposure to the sun or in a hot room causes severe overheating of the body, which leads to nausea and feeling unwell. This is called heat or sunstroke.

The victim should be immediately moved to a cool place and given water to drink. Lay in a horizontal position on your back, raising your legs - if sick. But if vomiting begins, turn on its side to avoid vomiting entering the respiratory tract. Apply a cold compress to your forehead. Clothes that are constraining breathing should be removed or unfastened. The first aid rule is to lower the body temperature to normal.

Health-threatening condition

For certain diseases, medical attention is required. Dangerous factors causing nausea without vomiting:

• Heart failure.
• High or low blood pressure.
• Brain injury or concussion.
• Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (ulcers, appendicitis, gastritis).
• Poisoning with toxins.

Nausea in children

If the child is nauseous, but does not vomit, the cause should be eliminated. You must understand that nausea is not a disease, but a symptom of another disease or condition. If the cause is gastroenteritis, then the baby is feeling pretty good, the desire to eat does not disappear, the child plays, behaves in the usual way. Feed him normally and offer his usual drinks. If the baby does not look like himself, is lethargic, irritable, does not respond to the call, there is a suspicion of a serious illness. You should urgently seek medical attention.

Providing first aid to a child

The baby has nausea after eating - you can try artificially induce a gag reflex to improve the condition. For a short time, give two glasses of water to drink, sit on the seat and press with two fingers on the base of the tongue. Vomiting should occur. Babies are prohibited from doing such a procedure, as there is a risk of asphyxiation.

You need to see a doctor

In the following cases:

• The child vomits repeatedly and is unable to retain fluids.
• Dehydration, crying without tears, dry mouth, drowsiness, little or no urination.
• Vomit is green or contains blood.
• Vomiting for more than a day or two.
• The temperature is over 38 degrees.

Call an ambulance if: acute and severe abdominal pain, vomiting, the baby is lethargic, irritable, or withdrawn. Headache, rash, and hardening of the neck muscles are present. When to call a doctor, parents should be guided by intuition.

Otherwise, the diagnosis and treatment of children is the same as in adults.