Vomiting with a viral infection: how to stop and relieve nausea

Nausea, vomiting can be the consequences of food allergies, viral infections. The most common cause of vomiting is enterovirus disease. The infection that affects most people is worth dealing with.

General characteristics of rotavirus infection

Enterovirus disease, rotavirus infection, intestinal flu - the names of one diagnosis. Rotavirus is a disease caused by a number of viruses (adenoviruses, caliciviruses, a virus of the Rotavirus order), which, entering the human intestine, begin to multiply and disrupt the functioning.

The child is more susceptible to the disease. The dangerous age of infection in children is from six months to 6 years. The reason is the baby's weak immunity. Children and the elderly are more difficult to tolerate the disease. The duration of toxicoinfection in children is longer than adults. In people with strong immune systems, the disease passes in an "invisible" form. Symptoms of rotavirus are hard to miss, but a person does not experience them, being a carrier.

The ailment lasts for at least two weeks. For 5-7 days, the patient recovers, the next week is the carrier of the causative agent of an infectious disease. Isolation of the patient from healthy people should not be neglected.

Virus infection routes

There are three main routes of infection with stomach flu. It is difficult to determine how a person became infected - the incubation period of the virus lasts from 16 hours to 5 days. The duration of the period depends on the immune system of the individual, the concentration of the virus.

The most common infection is through the food route. Through unwashed fruits and vegetables, thermally unprocessed foods, the virus enters the human body and begins to actively multiply. Infection can occur by drinking raw tap water.

Rotavirus is often referred to as “dirty hand disease”. Even bathing in raw water, they contract an infection. Keeping the body and hands clean, there is no guarantee that the virus that causes enterovirus disease will not enter the body. The causative agent of toxicoinfection is tenacious - not all detergents can destroy it. An exception is products containing chlorine. The infection is not affected by freezing, heating up to 60 degrees Celsius.

Airborne droplets are the second most common infection. Talking to a carrier of the infection, it is easy to get infected with enteroviral disease. Rotavirus germs are spread in the air by coughing, sneezing.

In addition to the methods described, there is a contact-household variant of infection. Applies to public places: schools, offices, kindergartens, supermarkets.

Signs of rotavirus disease

After the incubation period, the symptoms of stomach flu are rapidly gaining momentum. A couple of hours before the immediate symptoms of rotavirus, there is a cough, a sore throat, a runny nose, but no fever, no diarrhea, no vomiting. After catarrhal symptoms follow:

• Feeling of nausea, gag reflex, vomiting.
• Along with nausea, abdominal pain occurs.
• Increase in body temperature up to 39 degrees.
• Loose stools of gray-yellow color (feces can be yellowish-green, with a pungent odor).
• A symptom of decreased activity is increasing weakness.
• Dehydration of the body (severe form of rotavirus).

Dangerous symptoms

Symptoms mean a severe course of the disease requiring the intervention of specialists:

• Black stools, bloody feces. The symptom speaks of intestinal bleeding.
• Acute abdominal pain. Pain in the normal course of the disease is not pronounced. Severe pain can characterize damage to the intestines.
• Rash on the body. More often, fullness is a sign of paratyphoid fever, typhoid fever, sometimes occurs with enteroviral disease.
• Frequent diarrhea, vomiting (up to 10 times).
• Elevated temperature.

Treatment

There is no universal therapy for rotavirus. Treatment consists in a complex effect on the symptoms: to reduce the level of intoxication, eliminate dehydration, stop nausea, get rid of vomiting with diarrhea. Rotavirus can be treated at home. The patient is hospitalized if a severe form of a viral infection is diagnosed.

Treatment with folk methods

Elimination of the infection begins with the restoration of the water balance of a child, an adult, if vomiting, diarrhea lasted longer than a day. The procedure brings relief to the patient. It is necessary to drink with a solution of sugar, salt, soda. For a liter of water, add a spoonful of salt, soda, four tablespoons of sugar. The liquid is an alternative to pharmacy medicines, helping to eliminate dehydration. You can take it only for a short time, it is preferable to purchase drugs that help to cope with the task more effectively.

To completely get rid of the virus that provokes the disease, it is necessary to destroy the viral microorganisms in the intestines. It is necessary to make a decoction of St. John's wort: pour a spoonful of dry grass with 0.2 liters of boiling water. After half an hour, the broth is consumed. Drink three times a day for a third of a glass. It is contraindicated to drink St. John's wort in a child under three years of age.

Children can be given dried blueberry compote. Do not eat fresh - it is a laxative. You can cope with diarrhea by drinking black sweet tea.

Elimination of nausea and vomiting

To get rid of nausea with vomiting with rotavirus disease, the following methods will help:

• Chew a few seeds of cardamom, caraway seeds.
• Drink a drink with the addition of fresh, dried ginger.
• At vomit is recommended to drink mint tea.
• With a virus, you can stop nausea with water with honey, lemon.
• If the nausea persists, you can add apple cider vinegar to tea, boiled water. It is recommended to drink a drink when vomiting with fever.
• Drink rosehip infusion.
• Drink juices diluted with boiled water, still mineral water, fruit drink without sugar.

The methods are suitable for children. In an adult, options also improve.

Drug treatment

Rotavirus disease is treatable with medication. You can stop vomiting with activated charcoal and smecta. To remove microorganisms that cause infection, antiviral drugs are used: Polysorb, enterosgel, which helps to stop vomiting. After that, tablets are prescribed that restore the intestinal microflora: linex, bifiform, hilak-forte, bactisubtil.

All medications must be prescribed by a doctor. Do not self-medicate - this can lead to complications in infectious diseases in a child, and even in an adult.

Diet after vomiting

After diarrhea, vomiting, the patient's body is exhausted - an infectious disease takes away strength. Therefore, it is necessary to adhere to a gentle, restorative diet.

No matter how much it has passed, if a person is sick, he feels weak, it is necessary to continue to continue to replenish the water balance. It is recommended to drink herbal teas, jelly, rosehip decoctions.

Broths, fatty foods, fried and smoked, spicy should be excluded until complete recovery. Forget about dairy products and fresh vegetables and fruits. It is worth eating soups, cereals without adding meat (with the exception of lean chicken meat), vegetable broths, boiled potatoes, pasta. You can eat hard-boiled eggs, gray bread, black bread, crackers.

Prophylaxis

Regardless of age, there are some rules to follow, and rotavirus gastroenteritis most likely will not overcome a person. To understand what to do in order not to get infected, you need to remember under what conditions you can catch this virus. Anyone can catch rotavirus through unwashed food, dirty hands, and contact with an infected person. Only the intensity of infection depends on the individual characteristics of the organism and the immune system.

To avoid illness, you should wash your hands with soap and water after using the toilet, visiting public places (buses, supermarkets, hospitals, schools, offices), before eating food, after contact with animals. Wash fruit thoroughly, for small children it is necessary to pour over boiling water. Time to wash your things, clean the house, ventilate the room. Strengthen your immunity, children, using the necessary vitamins, eating right. It is important to have an active lifestyle, to walk on the street or to play sports.

If we are talking about small children, it is worth keeping an eye on their cleanliness, washing toys, pouring boiling water over them. Particular attention must be paid to the food consumed - food must be fresh. Wash the fruits thoroughly, peel the apples. Eliminate the use of raw water. Speaking of milk, it should be heat treated, even steam.