What is vomiting?
Vomiting is the vomiting of the contents of the gastrointestinal tract out of the mouth. Vomiting is often preceded by a feeling of nausea. Vomiting can be caused by many things. For example, seeing something dirty or smelling an unpleasant odor can cause nausea or even vomiting; vomiting can also occur when car or boat sickness is caused by bumps in the car or boat; something touching the throat, such as a doctor using an instrument to check a patient’s throat, often causes nausea or even vomiting.
Sometimes artificially caused. Vomiting in the area is also a means of treatment. For example, when poisoning is caused by drugs or poisons eaten, it is necessary to use the emetic method to make the Chinese spring old will drugs or poisons. Zone vomit out to reduce the harm of harmful substances to the human body. What’s more is that many kinds of diseases can also cause patients to vomit, and vomiting is a signal of certain diseases. Nausea and vomiting by itself usually do not cause harm to the body, and vomiting will stop when the external cause of vomiting is removed or the disease is treated. What common gastrointestinal conditions may vomiting be a sign of?
Common acute gastrointestinal conditions that may cause vomiting include acute gastritis, dysentery, acute cholecystitis, and acute pancreatitis. Some chronic diseases may also cause vomiting, most commonly esophageal cancer and gastric cancer.
What other systemic diseases can cause vomiting?
Not only gastrointestinal diseases can cause vomiting, but some diseases outside the gastrointestinal tract can also cause vomiting. Common diseases that can cause vomiting include food poisoning, diabetes, kidney disease, stroke, brain tumor, etc.
Food poisoning When vomiting of varying severity occurs in many people at the same time (especially in schools, factory cafeterias, etc.), consider the possibility of food poisoning. For example, in an elementary school, more than 500 students and teachers showed symptoms of vomiting and abdominal pain after meals, which were caused by poisoning caused by mixing rodenticide – poisonous rat poison – with the meals in the cafeteria. If you suspect food poisoning, you should consult a doctor and report to the local health department.
Vomiting may occur in diabetic patients with severe diabetic ketoacidosis. The patient’s breath exhaled from the mouth and nose will smell like rotten apples.
Vomiting occurs in patients with kidney disease when the disease progresses to the uremic stage. Nausea will be evident when vomiting occurs in uremic patients. Stroke (stroke) Some stroke patients will vomit. Patients who have been diagnosed with hypertension in the hospital must go to the hospital as soon as possible if they develop headache, nausea, or vomiting to avoid delaying treatment.
Brain tumor If a tumor grows in the brain, sometimes vomiting symptoms can occur. This kind of patient often vomits suddenly without feeling nauseous, and the vomiting is violent and massive, which is called “jet-like vomiting” in medical science.
What does a patient with vomiting need to tell the doctor?
When vomiting occurs, the patient or a friend or relative should carefully observe the characteristics of the vomiting and describe the vomiting clearly to the doctor during the visit so that the doctor can make a correct diagnosis as soon as possible. Here are a few questions that can help you tell your doctor the specifics of the vomiting.
1. When did the vomiting occur?
Does the vomiting occur in the morning or at night?
Did you vomit immediately after a meal or a few hours after eating?
2. What kind of vomit is it?
The color of the vomit is yellow, black or blood-like color.
The smell of vomit is sour, rotten apple, fecal odor, etc.
The nature of the vomit. There is no stool-like stuff in the vomit, no food eaten the next day, no mucus-like stuff, etc.
3. Is the amount of vomit large?
The amount of vomit can be described by a container, such as “a basin” or “several bowls”, which can help the doctor understand the degree of water loss of the patient.
4.What is the sensation of vomiting at the same time?
Is vomiting accompanied by abdominal pain? Is vomiting accompanied by headache.
Do you feel no nausea before vomiting, or do you feel severe nausea? Does the area vomit without any effort at all, like a jet and vomit out.
What should I do if I have vomiting?
Severe, frequent and heavy vomiting can cause thirst and urination, which is medically called dehydration, indicating that the patient’s body has lost a lot of water and the condition is very serious and may even be life-threatening. Patients suffering from diabetes, hypertension and other diseases suddenly vomiting, such as jet-like vomiting, accompanied by abdominal pain, headache, should go to the hospital as soon as possible. If you suspect food or drug poisoning, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible.
When vomiting occurs, do not blindly take measures to stop vomiting. When it is judged that food and drug poisoning may have occurred, take emetic measures to expel the poison as soon as possible. To induce vomiting, use gauze or handkerchief wrapped chopsticks or spoon handles (or gauze or handkerchief wrapped fingers) to stimulate the pharynx (throat) of the poisoned person to make him vomit and spit out what he has eaten.
In order to make the poisoned person vomit out as much of the poison eaten as possible, the poisoned person can be made to drink clear water, warm water or warm light salt water (9 grams of table salt dissolved in 1000 ml of clear water) first, and then use the above methods to induce vomiting, alternately, until the vomit becomes clear and odorless.
If the vomiting is not serious, the patient can carry out dietary regimen at home. During vomiting, eat some thin and soft easily digestible food. Can take Chen Pi 3 grams, a pinch of white rice, add water and boil, with ginger juice: in the service; can also chew ginger. During vomiting should not eat some raw, cold, greasy food.