Spitting up blood when an infant spits up may be caused by gastrointestinal bleeding, oral mucous membrane breakage or mother’s nipple rupture.
1. Gastrointestinal bleeding: Vitamin K deficiency and stress in infants can lead to bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract, at which time the infant may spit up blood. At the same time, the child may also show pale color and black stools.
2. Oral mucous membrane rupture: when infants have oral ulcers, it will lead to oral mucous membrane rupture, and when drinking milk, the blood from the ruptured mucous membrane enters the digestive tract with the food. If the baby spits up before digestion, the stomach contents spit out will have blood in it.
3. Mother’s nipple rupture: babies sucking hard on the mother’s nipple during breastfeeding will cause the mother’s nipple to rupture, and when the baby drinks milk, the blood will be inhaled with the milk, and when spitting up occurs, the phenomenon of spitting up blood will occur.
When a baby spits up blood, there may be other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time to improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor to give targeted treatment or treatment.