There are many reasons why 20-day-old babies keep spitting up, which can be divided into physiological spitting up and pathological reasons such as indigestion, gastroenteritis, abnormal development of gastrointestinal tract, and neurological diseases.
1. Physiological spitting up: the child may vomit repeatedly, and the development of the infant’s stomach level is related to the gradual alleviation of the symptoms with the growth of age.
2. Pathologic causes:
(1) dyspepsia, can be repeated vomiting, abdominal distension, and improper feeding, catching cold and so on.
(2) Gastroenteritis, mostly with vomiting, diarrhea, fever and other symptoms, need to check the stool routine and other clear reasons.
(3) Abnormal development of the gastrointestinal tract, such as congenital megacolon, the child repeated vomiting, abdominal distension, defecation, abdominal masses can often be touched, abdominal ultrasound can be clear.
(4) Neurological diseases, such as meningitis, cerebral hemorrhage, caused by increased intracranial pressure, with repeated vomiting, fontanel bulging and other symptoms, if necessary, need to check the cerebrospinal fluid or cranial brain CT to clarify.
Therefore, there may be other reasons for 20-day-old babies to spit up repeatedly, and it is recommended that they go to the hospital in time, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, and then give targeted treatment or therapy under the guidance of the doctor.