Vomiting and abdominal pain in the child

Symptomatic in children in the preschool period is based on the behavioral reaction of the baby and the description of adults. The child himself can not yet talk about ill-being, complain about health. Although already in the kindergarten, he gets used to medical examinations and knows where his tummy is.

At an older age, children understand very well how nausea is felt, and even vomiting can be caused independently. The appearance of pain in the abdomen with vomiting in the child is not always a sign of pathology, the pediatrician must understand. We will explain only those differences from adults that parents should know about.

Functional disorders

Digestion of the baby is very sensitive to changes in diet, mode. Abdominal pain and vomiting accompanies any abnormalities:

• untimely feeding;
• switch from breastfeeding to a mixture;
• consumption of fat cake, soda water;
• overexcitation;
• increased motor activity.

Psychogenic character of abdominal pain is observed in nervous, emotional children with hyperactivity. Functional pains with vomiting can occur after suffering fright, stress. Often, increased anxiety and excitement, for example, before speaking at the matinee or control at school, cause diarrhea, vomiting, pain around the navel.

When the child is nauseous, there is increased salivation, increased swallowing movements. Moms are familiar with vomiting on the background of feeding unpleasant to the baby food. Such a reaction psychiatrists call a protest. In another way, a child can not defend himself and express disagreement.

Stubbornness, refusal to eat are inherent in emotional, vulnerable, fast-aroused children.

. Some children are thus looking for ways to attract attention, they want to get more communication, so that they regret it. Torn baby can not be scolded. Violent actions of adults, punishment will not help. Mourning for the bad character of the baby only complicates the contact.

Have to adjust, explain games, negotiate, consult a psychoneurologist. Patience will be helped by the thought that not all of them did right during pregnancy.

The essence of a functional malfunction, when a child is nauseous and aching in the stomach, is:

• in the broken motor motility of the stomach and sphincters;
• reflux release of food back to the esophagus and oral cavity;
• delayed digestion of food in the intestine;
• increase of gas formation;
• high sensitivity of the emetic center of the brain.

When should symptoms be considered alarming?

Emergency medical care may be necessary for a small patient if:

• abdominal pain arose, judging by crying and screaming, suddenly;
• the child does not allow to touch the stomach, perhaps it intensifies soreness;
• the toddler can not stand, dropping his knees to his stomach;
• increases body temperature to 39 and above;
• is randomly allocated liquid feces of unusual odor and color;
• marked cramps in the limbs;
• grows apathy, consciousness is lost;The
• patient rips the food eaten, then with an admixture of green bile;
• disturbed breathing rhythm;
• , a rash appears on the skin.

We urgently need to call an ambulance. Symptoms indicate an acute pathology. We will analyze the most common reasons.

Do not call for ambulance

Poisoning

Poisoning is caused by ingestion of substances having a different nature. They are divided into food and non-food. Signs and chemicals differ depending on the age of the child.

Babies

The main source of poisoning is a nursing mother who does not follow a diet, consumes alcohol, poor-quality foods, and illegal medicines. Other reasons may be: poorly treated bottle, nipple, improper quality of complementary foods( overdue, self-incorrect preparation, early introduction).

For non-food reasons, the following are common:

• harmful paints covering cheap toys;
• insufficient rinsing of baby's diapers and clothes after washing with the use of synthetic detergents;
• insect bites.

The poisoning is indicated by the following symptoms:

• increased anxiety of the baby or lethargy, drowsiness;
• constant quiet crying;
• prolonged sleep with uncomfortable posture;
• repeated vomiting in the child;
• admixture of blood in the vomit;
• diarrhea with unusual odor;
• shortness of breath;
• high temperature or low.

In preschool children

If a child has a stomach ache and is sick at the age when he walks alone, is interested in others, tastes everything that is badly hidden, then poisoning occurs. Most often, children 1-5 years old fall ill. They pull everything they can get into their mouths: household chemical products, jars of cream, tablets, candy wrappers, seasonings, berries, flowers.

Almost daily children with poisoning with drugs

come to toxicological departments. The most frequent poisonous substances are acids and alkalis, which are part of detergents. When the child enters the body, there are burns of the mucous membrane of the mouth and esophagus, painful difficult swallowing, choking due to the laryngeal edema, vomiting with blood and bile.

Spending summer at the cottage and lack of supervision, children are full of poisonous plants such as bleached. Symptoms of poisoning occur after 20-30 minutes. The clinic is characterized by:

• considerable dryness in the mouth;
• sore throat when swallowing;
• abdominal pain;
• pupil dilated and photophobia;
• dry skin;
• increased excitability;
• cramps in the legs;
• erased speech;
• cyanosis( blueing) of the lips;
• hallucinations and delusional condition are possible.

Close note that the child first had a stomach ache, then vomited, but it did not become easier, signs of the action of poison on the brain joined. The patient should be taken to the hospital as soon as possible. If the "First Aid" can quickly rinse the stomach with a probe and begin detoxification, the chances of recovery are increased.

Why does constipation in children cause abdominal pain?

Constipation is always associated with impaired intestinal motility. In a child, it is caused by a reduced tone, a lack of fiber in the diet. The most difficult to tolerate infants. They have the following reasons for constipation:

• in non-compliance with diet;
• reception of nursing mother of fatty or fried dishes, smoking, marinades;
• lack of fluid intake;
• carried by the mother of constant stresses, unrest, negatively perceived by the toddler;
• abnormalities of intestinal development.

For a baby is dangerous lack of stool during the day

Symptoms of constipation: bloating from the gas, increased abdominal wall elasticity, crying, pain over the entire abdomen, lower abdomen due to gas pressure, refusal to eat, increased regurgitation and vomiting,, older children have a headache.

Usually, when constipation is checked and adjusted diet of mother and child. After three months of age, it is recommended to add carrot juice, grated apple, fruit purée over a teaspoonful. Do not forget to do massage and lay the baby on your stomach. If necessary, an enema is made with a small pear with boiled water at a temperature of 30-32 degrees.

Exposure to sun and heat

Spending holidays on the seaside, parents forget that it is harmful for the child not only acclimatization, but also an unusual hot sun. When the temperature of the air is high, the body overheats, and then many salts are removed.

The child is suffering a lot of fluid loss, he needs to constantly drink water. If there is insufficient compensation of electrolytes, a heat stroke develops. Children complain that the head is very sore. Fainting can happen at any time. Overheating in the sun without a headdress enhances the symptoms.

After a day spent on the beach, at night there are:

• temperature rise up to 40 degrees;
• weakness, apathy;
• headaches;
• epistaxis;
• the child has a stomachache, vomiting.

It is recommended to put the baby in the shade before the ambulance arrives, put bottles of cold water in the neck and underarm areas, cover it with a wet sheet. Give slightly acidified water.

Toddler can conveniently be arranged under awning

Can a child develop gastritis?

Gastritis or inflammation of the stomach can cause abdominal pain in the child. The acute form develops with traumatic damage of the stomach from swallowing foreign bodies( pins, buttons, glass, small toys) or overfeeding on a festive day with carbonated water, cake, fried dishes, ice cream.

Symptoms appear after 1.5-2 hours. Parents notice that the baby has vomited and hurts the stomach. Vomit remains of undigested food, acid and bitterness are possible due to increased production of gastric juice and reflux of bile from the duodenum.

The pains are maximally located in the epigastrium, they are given to the left and right, to the navel. Sometimes there is a slight increase in temperature, but more often gastritis occurs without temperature. The chronic course is typical for school-age children who buy and eat uncontrollably fast food, chips, carbonated water, do not comply with the dietary regime of

. Exacerbations are observed during unrest, a tense situation. Sometimes the pain is felt in the form of heaviness in the stomach even without food. Pain in epigastrium and vomiting require a compulsory examination of the doctor, because they are often a manifestation of acute appendicitis.

Treatment for children with gastritis is based on compliance with a strict diet, diet. Drugs are prescribed only after the examination, identifying the type of acidity, infection with Helicobacter pylori.

Any carbonated water - a blow to the digestion of a child

Dyskinesia of the biliary tract

A violation of the management of bile outflow along the ducts from the gall bladder to the intestines often affects children. This is caused by improper food, hobby for chips, confectionery, soda.

After such food there is pain and a feeling of heaviness on the right side of the hypochondrium, nausea, vomiting of bitterness. The attack stops with the release of bile. In the treatment it is very important to follow the diet and regular consumption of warm food.

Infection and abdominal pain

Often the child has a stomach ache, vomiting after eating on the background of infectious diseases: viral( flu, ARVI), intestinal infections caused by rotavirus, shigella( dysentery), salmonella( salmonellosis).The outbreak is most prevalent in places where children are concentrated: in schools, kindergartens, boarding schools, summer camps.

Transmission of respiratory viruses is carried out by sneezing, coughing, ingestion of saliva particles from a sick child to a healthy one. Intestinal infections have a fecal-oral intake of infection. Passed through dirty hands, unwashed vegetables, flies, with improper thermal cooking of food.

Several children are ill at once. With the flu, you can not exclude the abdominal shape. Pain in the abdomen is accompanied by symptoms of intoxication, headaches, a feeling of shattering, runny nose, coughing, aching joints.

Vomiting and epigastric pain accompany dysentery, with inflammation localized in the large intestine and maximally affecting the sigmoid colon. Patients are worried about diarrhea, false desires with the passage of mucus and blood. When palpation of the abdomen is determined in the left lower side of the cylindrical seal formed spastic reduced intestine.

Measures for the treatment of diseases recommend an infectious disease doctor. He together with the epidemiologist determines whether it is possible to leave the child at home or to be isolated in the infectious disease department of the hospital. Anti-viral agents are used, antibacterial, intoxication is removed by the administration of liquid and vitamins.

Popular recommendations

For the cessation of pain and nausea, folk curative people recommend:

• go on a hungry diet, only unsalted rice broth, loose tea with white rusks is allowed;
• from herbal decoctions will suit oak bark, chamomile, gooseberry berries, marigold, leaves of plantain.

Decoctions are prepared in a thermos bottle, they are given to the child in dilution with water or teaspoons, they are well removed from bloating and pain.

. The child is not easily diagnosed quickly. Nausea and abdominal pain are a complex symptom requiring surveillance, examination. If hospitalization is suggested, then the parents need to agree with the doctor.

At home, it is impossible to check the necessary tests. Eliminating or temporarily reducing pain is a bad sign, they can move on to another more complex stage of pathology. Instead of the expected relief, confuse the clinical manifestations even more.