Vomiting after eating: reasons for what to do

When toxins, pathogenic bacteria or infections enter a healthy human body, the gag reflex becomes a reaction. This is just a signal that the body needs help, but not a separate disease. The protective effect indicates the urgency of going to the doctor to find out causes of vomiting. Self-medication aggravates the condition if there are significant reasons for the development of the gag reflex. After the prescribed examinations and tests, the picture of the disease will become clear.

From what arises

Nature is arranged in such a way that a violation in the work of organs is manifested by characteristic symptoms. The defense reaction (nausea, vomiting) suggests that the body is exhausted by stress, blood pressure has increased and it is time to get rid of the growing tension. However, most often a person suffers from excess or poisoned food. Eruption of undigested food as a result of violent gastric spasm occurs suddenly or with pre-nausea.

Causes of vomiting after eating

A painful condition can be caused by such factors:

• Excess food intake. A child or an adult does not know the measure of food, taking long breaks between meals. Excessive amounts of food pickles press on the abdominal wall, provoking vomiting from overeating.
• Weak vestibular apparatus. A person has a tendency to seasickness, motion sickness in transport - he is stiff and often vomits from monotonous body vibrations. Children can experience similar sensations on carousels.
• Pregnancy. The female body perceives the fetus as a foreign body, a phenomenon called toxicosis is confirmation of this.
• Side effects of drugs. Medications often cause nausea and vomiting when taken orally after meals.
• Myocardial infarction. A situation when a sick person is accompanied by a nauseous feeling and vomiting at the end of a meal. Persistent nausea can haunt, even if the person does not eat anything.
• Concussion, head trauma. In addition to vomiting, symptoms of problems with the blood supply to the brain are headache, lethargy, and dizziness.
• Nervous stress. The endured shock, strong anxiety or anxiety weaken the immune system, concentrate tension in the epigastric region. A protective mechanism is triggered in the form vomiting.
• Alcohol poisoning. Occurs when taking alcohol-containing drinks that provoke intoxication.
• Poisoning with food, chemical elements, toxic substances. They are manifested by a nauseous reaction an hour after eating, the discharge of vomit one or more times, weakness.

Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract

Vomiting is often a sign of gastrointestinal or endocrine disorders. Disruptions in the production of thyroid hormones stimulate the nerve centers that regulate the processes of nausea, eruption of vomit. Lack of trace elements, vitamins provokes dizziness, failure of body functions.

What are the pathologies of internal organs during the digestion of food induce vomiting:

• Peptic ulcer, acute gastritis. The painful condition is accompanied by nausea, the stomach turns out after eating repeatedly.
• Inflammation of the appendix. Appendicitis in acute form is accompanied by diarrhea, vomiting, unbearable pain in the iliac region on the right at the end of food intake, in between meals. An increase in temperature is observed.
• Inflammation of the gallbladder, pancreas (pancreatitis). Diseases occur in an acute or chronic phase. After each meal, a person feels bitterness in the mouth, indigestion and cramps in the stomach. Can vomit during a meal.

Other reasons

The rejection of food by the body occurs as a result of the ingress of viruses, bacteria, and pathological microflora on the mucous membranes. Doctors call a vivid manifestation of intestinal flu the eruption of stomach contents and indomitable diarrhea. Rotavirus infection depletes the body in a day, the stomach does not take food and water until the acute phase of infection disappears.

The obsession with being slim and attractive often turns into a dangerous addiction. Vomiting after eating is caused deliberately. The danger of a bondage condition leads to a mental disorder that is rarely cured. Ultimately, it leads to fatal consequences - the stomach is not able to accept, digest food.

How does the emetic process occur?

The reflex is divided into stages: nausea, gagging, gastric emptying. Characteristics of the stages causing abdominal discomfort:

1. Nausea is a prerequisite for vomiting, not necessarily preceding vomiting. The receptors of the digestive tract in an adult or child are irritated, a signal is sent to the brain and the person begins to vomit. The process is accompanied by salivation, an unpleasant feeling behind the peritoneum. The muscle tone of the stomach is weakened, the muscles in the small intestine are reduced in an enhanced mode.
2. Vomiting stimulates the work of the diaphragm, compression of the abdominal muscles.
3. During vomiting, muscle tone activates the opening of the esophageal sphincter, undigested food is uncontrollably expelled into the oral cavity. Throwing food debris into the breathing tube is excluded - the airway is blocked.

Vomiting symptoms

To understand that a person is now vomiting, help is required, possibly due to the preceding factors:

• The production of an increased amount of saliva.
• Dizziness, headache.
• Persistent nausea.
• Painful stomach cramps.

In an elderly person, bowel upset and rumbling in the stomach are added to the common symptoms. The deterioration of the digestive organs and associated pathologies additionally burden the aging body.

What does the color of the vomit mean?

After ingestion of food or medications, it is difficult to understand the cause of vomiting if germs get in. The color scheme of the vomit contents will tell you about the probable diagnosis:

• The absence of any color (vomit of a natural appearance) indicates neurological disorders, stressful situations, or that the food intake was too much.
• Bloody spots indicate damage to the esophagus or stomach. Formation of polyps is acceptable.
• Green and yellow colors can occur with intestinal infection, poisoning with toxins.
• A black-brown tint indicates blood loss in the gastrointestinal tract. This is an alarming sign.

An analysis of food eaten by a person will tell you: in the case of eating beets, chocolate, blueberries, the emetic contents are colored with the juice of the dishes. Vomit with blood requires an urgent call for an ambulance to avoid a fatal accident.

How to help

The physical and mental state of the patient during the period when he vomits is severe. Legs give way, malaise is caused by dehydration, slowdown and disruption of all body functions. What to do to relieve symptoms:

• Provide the patient with free ejection of the contents of the stomach in order to exclude the case of flooding. Lay horizontally, ventilate the room, do not leave a step.
• Bring drink (water) often and little by little. Do without food.
• Call a therapist or ambulance if the vomit is accompanied by blood and bile.

When the patient is sick and vomits repeatedly, he does not perceive the addressed speech, close people are obliged to inform the ambulance dispatcher of all the factors of the condition. You can not hesitate with seeking help at the slightest sign of a gag reflex in young children, pregnant women, and the elderly. The ambulance is called immediately!

A single gag reflex without other symptoms of diseases will not cause disturbances in the functions of the body. It is possible that it was an attack of a panic attack, cleansing the stomach of food contaminated with bacteria, overeating or chronic fatigue. Vomiting on a regular basis signals a progressive illness. Every hour counts.