The child's digestive system is imperfect, and therefore, children often vomit. This is an unpleasant condition, which, moreover, can be incredibly dangerous for babies, since during vomiting they rapidly lose fluid, and dehydration can occur. The task of the parents is to help the child as soon as possible, even when there are no medicines at hand, and the nearest pharmacy and pediatrician's office are far away. Effective folk remedies against vomiting will come to the rescue.
Symptoms and Signs
Vomiting is a condition in which the stomach involuntarily expels its contents through the esophagus. This is due to a spasm that occurs in the lower stomach, while the upper, on the contrary, is relaxed. Particles of undigested food and gastric juice are released up the esophagus in the opposite direction. The child feels a painful spasm in the abdomen, and after the next attack - a sore throat due to the trachea affected by vomit, bitterness from gastric juice, and bad breath appears.
The reasons why vomiting can occur are numerous:
- Formation of digestive functions. For this reason, vomiting can occur in infants (it is more abundant than usual regurgitation), and is also often found in children under one year old.
- Digestive upset. If the child is fed excessively and forcibly, if the food is of poor quality.
- Poisoning. It can be food poisoning, and drug, which arose as a reaction to the medication taken.
- Diseases of the intestines and stomach. This can be safely attributed to gastritis, intestinal dysbiosis, dysentery.
- Viral infections. Often in children, vomiting occurs at a high temperature during the flu or SARS, such an unpleasant syndrome accompanies enterovirus and rotavirus infections (the so-called intestinal flu).
- Skull trauma and brain trauma and pathology. Vomiting can be one of the most striking symptoms of concussion, closed head injury, meningitis.
- External reasons. Overheating in the sun, stuffiness.
In other words, an attack of vomiting can be triggered by both expired kefir and appendicitis. Therefore, it is always important to look for additional symptoms.
What is the danger?
Parents should as quickly as possible assess not only the intensity and frequency of the child's vomiting attacks, but also its features. If you do not provide the child with timely assistance, the baby can lose too much fluid, dehydration for babies can be fatal.
In addition, as a result of vomiting, mechanical asphyxia may occur when the child inhales his own vomit. This condition is also considered a serious threat to life.
When is it impossible to do with folk methods?
If there is a lot of bile in the emetic massage, this may indicate cholecystitis, gallstone disease, viral hepatitis. This condition cannot be treated with folk remedies; it is required to call a doctor as soon as possible.
If a child vomits blood this can speak in possible trauma to the esophagus, internal bleeding, ulcer. With such a manifestation, you should not waste a minute thinking about self-treatment, you should call an ambulance.
If the child is additionally worried acute abdominal pain it could be a sign of appendicitis or other problems that will require surgery.
Repeated vomiting with high fever should also become the basis for the early hospitalization of the child.
In all cases of repeated vomiting in children under one year old, an "ambulance" should be called. For these kids, any delay can cost their lives.
Effective folk remedies
It is possible to stop vomiting with folk remedies if the child's seizures occur infrequently and there are no impurities of blood, a large amount of bile in the vomit, if there is no pronounced pain syndrome in the abdomen. But in this case, you need to be careful, because folk remedies, even completely harmless, can aggravate the child's condition.
Dill decoction
To prepare the drink, you will need a teaspoon of dill seeds and 250 ml of boiled water. The product should be kept in a water bath for about 10 minutes, then it should be filtered and given to the child in small sips after each vomiting attack.
Ginger
The ginger root is washed, peeled and a small piece is rubbed on a fine grater. A teaspoon of ginger mass should be added to a glass of boiling water, after which the resulting drink should be kept in a water bath for another 15 minutes. Cool, strain through cheesecloth and give the child a tablespoon as often as possible, preferably every half hour.
Mint
Pour mint leaves with boiling water and insist for about half an hour. Such a decoction should be given to a child in 2-3 tablespoons once every three hours. If there are no fresh mint leaves, you can use dried ones (they are easy to buy not only in pharmacies, but also in stores where they are sold as a seasoning). A teaspoon of dry herb is brewed with 200 ml of boiling water and kept in a closed container for about half an hour. Then the broth is filtered and given in the same quantities as a drink made from fresh leaves.
Chicken egg and milk
After separating the yolk from the protein, beat the yolk with a mixer or whisk with 100 ml of low-fat milk. Such a drink should be given every hour for a teaspoon.
Green tea
Any green tea you have in your home will do for the special drink. The main thing is that the child can take it by age (remember that some components of green teas - jasmine, for example) are contraindicated for small children. Make a steep brew and give your child small sips after each vomiting attack and 1-2 tablespoons between attacks. Sugar can be added to tea, as glucose is very beneficial for vomiting.
Herbal collection
The collection has a rather strong antiemetic effect, which is quite simple to brew at home. You will need chamomile, lemon balm, mint. Take all components in equal proportions. Brew in boiled, but cooled to 80 degrees water, pour into a thermos, close and let it brew for about an hour. Then you need to strain the drink and give the child a quarter of a glass between bouts of vomiting. The main condition is that the child should drink in small sips.
Horsetail
A drink from this plant is easy to prepare - 2 teaspoons of herbal raw materials should be poured with boiling water (200 ml) and insisted for about 20 minutes. Horsetail drink should be given in small sips, preferably with teaspoons as often as possible.
The danger of self-medication
If a child vomits once, do not worry. So the child's body gets rid of a poor-quality product that has entered the baby's diet or adverse effects from the outside. However, if the situation is more serious, self-medication is not worth practicing. Small disturbances in the activity of the body are usually not accompanied by severe vomiting, remember this.
A sensible approach to treatment involves finding the true cause of such an unpleasant symptom, and not trying to drown out the symptom itself. To establish the causes, an extensive medical study is required, which will include blood and urine tests, ultrasound of the abdominal organs, and examination of feces and vomit. At home, a full examination is impossible.
What can’t be done?
- When vomiting, do not allow the baby to lie on its back, including infants. With an attack, the baby may choke.
- You do not need to give your child any medication before the doctor arrives. After an attack, you can offer your baby a few sips of clean drinking water.
- Parents should not panic and show it to their child. Believe me, the baby is already very scared of what is happening, the additional stress will only increase vomiting.
Tips
Correctly provided first aid for vomiting in most cases avoids serious consequences. It should consist in a certain order of actions:
- Do not give food.
- Put the child in bed on its side, turning his head to the right or left, put a towel under his cheek in case of repeated attacks, because they come suddenly, and the child will not have time to orient himself.
- Immediately during the attack, the child needs to be seated and slightly tilt his body forward, this will help to avoid the entry of vomit into the lungs.
- If the vomiting is strong, the child can be given "Smecta" or "Regidron" according to the instructions, these drugs will help prevent dehydration before the arrival of the ambulance doctors.
