Children vomiting in the middle of the night may be related to physiological causes such as overfeeding, abdominal cold, or pathological causes such as food poisoning, gastroesophageal reflux, acute gastroenteritis.
1. Physiological reasons. When a child eats too much at night, it may cause food accumulation or indigestion; eating too much cold food or getting cold in the abdomen due to low room temperature may lead to accelerated peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract, and abnormal peristalsis may cause vomiting symptoms.
2. Pathological causes
(1) Food poisoning. When children eat food contaminated by pathogens or consume spoiled food at night, it may stimulate the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract and cause vomiting.
(2) Gastroesophageal reflux. When suffering from GERD, the child may experience symptoms such as acid reflux and a burning sensation in the sternum in the middle of the night, as well as vomiting in the middle of the night.
(3) Acute gastroenteritis. When suffering from acute gastroenteritis, due to the gastrointestinal tract inflammation stimulation, may cause middle of the night vomiting.
There may be other reasons for children to vomit in the middle of the night, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, and then give targeted treatment or treatment under the guidance of the doctor.