Vomiting of bile in a child: reasons, what to do, how to treat

Vomiting is a reflex process that performs the function of protecting the body. Front gagging salivation increases, cramps and pain in the abdomen may occur, begins to vomit, a person feels unwell. The esophagus is opened, and the exit to the intestine is closed. The contents of the stomach through the mouth and nose are removed to the outside, and the body is cleansed.

The vomiting center is responsible for regulating this process in the body. It is located in the medulla oblongata. There are cases of discharge of secretions with pus or blood. This function of cleansing the body improves the patient's condition and removes harmful substances.

Vomiting is not a disease, it is a symptom of a disease. Often associated with viral infections of the gastrointestinal tract. An improper diet can trigger a protective reflex. The risk of vomiting, whatever the cause, is that it can lead to dehydration with health consequences, especially in young children.

Causes of baby vomiting

Thanks to the protective reflex function, hazardous substances are removed, the baby's digestive system is cleansed. Factor vomiting in babies justified by the formation of the digestive system. In older babies, it can be caused by a number of diseases.

Vomiting with bile in a small child due to various factors:

1. Infectious infections, viral inflammation of the stomach and intestines.
2. Violation of the rules of baby food. Eating stale food, incompatible foods, food that is too sweet, spicy, fatty, food.
3. Psychological stress caused by nerve problems.
4. Diseases of internal organs: kidneys, liver, inflamed gallbladder, etc.

Vomiting in babies is a serious signal of health problems. Vomiting of bile indicates a number of diseases associated with the gastrointestinal tract (digestive tract), such as gastritis or cholecystitis. High fever, systematic vomiting, nausea are good reasons for seeking medical attention as soon as possible to prevent complications.

First aid for a child

The main principle of normalizing the digestive tract is to adjust the diet so that the stomach recovers. If the parent knows the causes of stomach problems, they need to be addressed. With a single vomiting, dietary food and increased fluid intake are required.

Tips on how to help your baby:

1. Calm down the child, wash your face with cool water, give a small amount of liquid to rinse the mouth.
2. Provide an increased fluid intake (1-1.5 L) of cold drinks. In small quantities and often. Suitable drinks are bottled mineral water, sweetened water (20 g sugar per liter), baby tea, rehydration solution.
3. Create an optimal diet. Don't eat anything other than liquids for the first few hours. Later add unsweetened cookies, rice, potatoes, pasta, ripe banana, broth (no fat). Eliminate milk, fatty foods, mixed juices.
4. Don't force your child to eat. Offer food often and in small portions.
5. Monitor the general condition of the baby, body temperature.
6. Follow your child's daily routine to restore mental health. A psychological disorder can talk about problems with the nervous system. Stress can cause angina pectoris, which can trigger gag reflexes.
7. If the condition worsens, seek urgent medical attention.

When do you need to see a doctor immediately?

Vomiting can be very harmful to your baby. Competently prescribed treatment and doctor's recommendations will help improve the health of the baby and relieve him of the feeling of nausea, eliminate the cause of vomiting.

Mandatory medical assistance, perhaps hospitalization is required if vomiting:

• Bloody, yellow discharge appears.
• Associated with head trauma, possibly concussion.
• The child has increased abdominal pain, cramps at intervals, the abdomen is hard, inflamed, painful.
• The kid is lethargic, sleepy, if his eyes are flooded.
• Rejects fluid and stops urinating.
• Often nauseous, there is a sudden attack of vomiting.
• Feeling unwell is accompanied by a headache with fever.
• Diarrhea is observed (green color is possible).
• The diet does not help, the baby continues to vomit, food is excreted.
• Accompanied by temperatures above 38C.
• A dangerous symptom is dehydration (dry mouth, decreased salivation, accelerated pulse, breathing rhythm is out of order, disorientation, lost sight, there are no tears when crying, the child is irritable, quiet, if babies have a slightly swollen large fontanel, the duration of daytime sleep is more than 4 hours, while the baby may be without temperature).

How to treat bile vomiting in children

Vomiting is a protective reflex of the body, regardless of how old a person is. Feeling nauseous, even for an adult, is unpleasant. The first and most important rule of treatment is all prescriptions, medications only with the permission of a doctor, do not self-medicate. Therapy depends on the underlying disease.

If the cause is food poisoning, then gastric lavage is performed. At home, the procedure is done with warm boiled water. After washing, be sure to give an antiemetic agent.

If vomiting is associated with a head injury, lay the child horizontally, observe bed rest, a doctor's examination is necessary for an accurate diagnosis.

There are folk ways to ease nausea and reduce vomiting in children. Used medicinal plants with choleretic, antispasmodic, antimicrobial effects.

• Herbal teas are brewed from peppermint leaves, immortelle, chamomile flowers. Solder the baby with a decoction 4-5 times a day, 30-50 ml before meals. The course of treatment is 10 days.
• It is recommended to make slightly sweetened drinks with lemon, cranberries.
• Ginger tea can help relieve nausea.
• Dill water helps to cope with the feeling of nausea, can help reduce gas formation in the stomach.
• Steam the valerian root with boiling water, put on low heat for 10-12 minutes. Drink the solution 2 times a day, 1 small spoon.

Attention! If you do not know the exact reason, it is forbidden to use folk methods.

After examination and analysis, the doctor makes a diagnosis. Based on this, the following groups of drugs are prescribed:

1. Antiemetics. Children can be prescribed funds: Bromoprid, Cerucal.
2. Antispasmodics are used for stomach pain. For children, no-shpu and Drotaverin-forte are prescribed.
3. Sorbents cleanse the body of toxic compounds. They use activated carbon, Smecta, Enterosgel, Polysorb, Laktofiltrum.
4. Broad-spectrum antibiotics are prescribed for intestinal infection: Azithromycin, Nifuroxazide, Cefix.
5. Rehydration drugs to prevent dehydration: Glucosolan, Normohydron, Regidron.

New medicines appear every year. The use of drugs is allowed only in the field of determining an accurate diagnosis by a competent physician.

Contraindications to drugs

Contraindications for medicines that eliminate abdominal pain, relieve inflammation:

• Contraindication to any drug is the individual intolerance of the constituent components.
• Antispasmodics should not be taken for hypotonic patients. The substance included in the drug relaxes the muscles of the stomach, the walls of blood vessels.
• Choleretic drugs are not taken for cholelithiasis (cholelithiasis), stomach ulcers.

In addition to contraindications, drugs have side effects:

• Apathy and drowsiness.
• Feeling nauseous.
• Abdominal cramps.
• Redness of the skin, itching.
• Headaches.

Side effects of drugs are rare, the body's response to the composition is individual. Medicines are prescribed according to the patient's age.

Baby's health is in your hands. Pay close attention to all doctor's recommendations.