Vomiting

Exile of gastric contents through a mouth is called vomiting. As a rule, vomiting is preceded by nausea – discomfort in a gullet and a stomach.

Vomiting: reasons, diagnosis, help

Often vomiting is caused by hit in an organism of substances, harmful to the person, – the spoiled food, poisons, etc. It represents an effective way of removal of toxins through a GIT. The special emetic center located in a brain is responsible for emergence of vomiting.

Quite often a so-called motion desease can be the cause of vomiting. During pregnancy vomiting is one of toxicosis symptoms. It can also be side effect as a result of reception of these or those medicines.

Many diseases of digestive tract – gastritises, gastroduodenita, enterita and other, are also followed by vomiting. Quite often vomiting has a psychogenic origin.

To understand the vomiting origin nature, detailed poll of the patient is necessary. In addition blood tests and urine, and also the roentgenogram, ultrasonography or an ezofagogastroduodenoskopiya can be required.

Some medical emergencies can be also followed by vomiting. If vomiting plentiful and unrestrained, sometimes with blood inclusions, its reasons are unclear or are a consequence of an injury of the head or stomach, the condition of the patient continues to worsen, then the emergency medical assistance is necessary. Especially urgent visit to the specialist will be required at vomiting from the child.

Attention – threat: vomiting and temperature at the child

Danger of vomiting at the child consists in prompt dehydration of a children's organism and loss of electrolytes by it which can lead to a lethal outcome. At children's age vomiting can arise against the background of gastrointestinal infections, diseases of a nervous system, because of an emotional overstrain, and also at various pathologies demanding surgical intervention. At the same time parents have to be able to distinguish vomiting from banal vomiting owing to hit of air in a GIT.

The child of any age, and especially younger or chest, at the plentiful repeating vomiting it is necessary to show to the specialist immediately. As pre-medical methods constant control over a condition of the child, providing position of the body excluding hit of emetic masses in respiratory tracts, an oral cavity toilet, salt drink is necessary.

Alarming couple – vomiting and a diarrhea

Vomiting and diarrhea are the integral symptoms of various disturbances of digestion of various etiology. In fact, they are defense reaction of an organism, a peculiar attempt to be cleared of harmful substances.

Substandard food stuffs can be the reason of vomiting and diarrhea. Along with the increased temperature and an abdominal pain they can signal about the beginning of an infectious disease.

If vomiting and a diarrhea have no wearisome character, within the first days plentiful drink is necessary. It is better to use alkaline mineral water or pharmaceutical saline solutions. If necessary electrolytic drink can be made independently, having added to a glass of pure boiled water on one teaspoon of salt and sugar. It is worth giving the chance to an organism independently to get rid of toxic substances.

Easy antiseptic agent is weak solution of permanganate potassium. Reception of sorbents, for example, of absorbent carbon is also reasonable. Excellent diarrhea medicine is the glass of water with addition of a teaspoon of starch.

If the listed measures do not give relief within a day or two, vomiting and temperature remain, consultation of the specialist is necessary.

Specific symptom: cholemesis

At such gastrointestinal diseases as the peptic ulcer of a stomach, chronic cholecystitis or pancreatitis can be observed a cholemesis. Its emergence demonstrates throwing in a gullet of contents of a gall bladder. Reception of greasy and fried food can provoke emergence of a cholemesis against the background of remission of a basic disease as a result of its hypersecretion and disturbance of normal functioning of the gatekeeper.

For the purpose of diagnosis apply the fibrogastroscopy and measurement of acidity of a gastric juice. For therapy use anti-inflammatory drugs, prokinetics (мотилиум, etc.) for normalization of functions of the gatekeeper and a stomach, spasmolysants and antibiotics.

For decrease in acidity of a gastric juice groups of inhibitors of a hydrogen pomp use drugs (Almagelum and others). For achievement of bystry effect include the drugs of ursodeoksikholovy acid decomposing excess of fatty acids in a course of treatment.