Can a child vomit from fatty foods?

New Year is a family holiday, a winter holiday, and also a holiday of the belly. And every time we crawl away from the table, we swear to ourselves that we will never, ever overeat like that again. And if we, seemingly adults and responsible people, are so little able to control ourselves, then what can we say about children? They also overeat during the New Year holidays. And if in an adult the consequences may be limited to not feeling very well, in children they are usually much more pronounced.

Symptoms of overeating in children:

• nausea,
• vomit,
• abdominal pain,
• loose stools,
• lethargy.

And the most important thing is an objective assessment. Remember how many sweets and tangerines the baby ate. Don’t set the standard for yourself - it’s better to focus on the child’s standard portion. If it is greatly exceeded, the cause of the malaise is most likely due to overeating.

Treatment tactics for overeating in children

Usually, the symptoms of overeating do not last long; the very next day the baby will feel almost healthy. However, in the first few days it is better to keep him on a moderate diet: - limit the consumption of sweet and sour foods, - exclude fatty and spicy foods, - exclude dairy for at least three days.

When the above symptoms are a reason to urgently consult a doctor

The main rule is no panic. Carefully monitor the child's condition, and if the situation goes beyond the norm, do not hesitate to contact a doctor immediately.

The most common cause of illness in children is abdominal discomfort. They occur at any age and can be caused by various factors, so only a qualified pediatrician can accurately determine the nature of the pain.

Why does my stomach hurt?

Before trying to determine the cause of pain, it is necessary to find out how intense it is and where it is localized. In case of severe pain, babies, as a rule, prefer to lie down, taking not very comfortable positions. They turn and stand up, while the children are very careful, slowly. The symptom can be sharp (dagger pain), dull aching or stabbing.

To determine the cause of pain, it is important to track where its epicenter is located. So, the left side of the peritoneum may indicate intestinal obstruction/inflammation. In addition, the pancreas is located on the left, which can also cause unpleasant symptoms. If there is pain on the right, this may also indicate problems with the intestines, but if the symptom is localized in this area, in addition, pathologies of the liver and gallbladder or tract are possible (for example, dyskinesia, cholecystitis, etc.)

If a child has a fever and a stomach ache, then an intestinal infection or appendicitis is likely. In any case, if such signs occur, parents should immediately call a doctor who can determine the cause of the baby’s illness. If, in addition to the main symptoms, there is blood in the child’s stool or vomit, this is a good reason to urgently call an ambulance.

The main causes of pain in the navel area are overeating or incomplete/untimely bowel movements. Treatment in this case is simple: it is necessary to reduce the amount of food given to the child, eliminate snacks between main meals, and remove fatty foods from the diet. If after this the baby still has pain around the navel, give him an enema (even if he has bowel movements often) - this will help alleviate the patient's condition. An alternative option is to give your son or daughter mild laxatives.

Other diseases that are sometimes indicated by pain below the navel are:

• intestinal hernia (it is provoked by constipation, diarrhea, dysbacteriosis, disruptions of the digestive process);
• umbilical hernia (occurs in babies who often cry and thereby strain their tummy);
• intervertebral hernia (sometimes pinched nerves in the spine cause pain in the lower abdominal cavity);
• appendicitis (this is possible if the child complains that his lower abdomen hurts, which is accompanied by fever);
• gastroduodenitis (with prolonged pain below the navel, inflammation of the gastric mucosa can be assumed; the symptom often appears after eating).

If, against the background of a normal state of health, a child experiences attacks of abdominal pain, this may indicate intussusception (invasion of one area of ​​the intestine into another due to impaired peristalsis of the organ). Sometimes attacks are accompanied by vomiting and an increase in body temperature, while at the beginning of the disease the stool may not differ from normal. Acute cramping pain in the abdomen in children under 12 months is expressed by unreasonable crying/screaming, constant restlessness, poor sleep, and drawing the legs toward the chest.

With intussusception, the attacks subside as abruptly as they appeared: the children calm down, begin to eat and play normally again. The frequency of pain is the main symptom of this disease. As the pathology develops, attacks become more frequent, becoming longer and more pronounced. As a rule, the disease affects children 6-12 months old, caused by improper introduction of complementary foods containing fruit/vegetable components.

Causes of nausea from fatty foods

Vomiting is usually preceded by a condition called nausea. This sensation is regulated by the center of the brain. If a person has eaten too much and feels sick, the reason is clear. When there is an excess of food, the brain receives a signal from the receptors of the stomach and “gives an order” to reduce the tone of its walls. At the same time, the area of ​​the duodenum becomes tense. The sphincter (valve) between the esophagus and stomach relaxes. The contents are easily thrown into the esophagus, causing heartburn.

Fatty food means fatty meat, fast food with cheese, French fries, chips, lard, cakes. A large portion of such food is difficult to digest. This requires a lot of gastric juice, pancreatic enzymes, and bile. As a result, food stays in the stomach and intestines for a long time. Stagnant undigested food causes an unpleasant pulling or sucking feeling in the epigastric region.

Vomiting occurs, after which it becomes easier. This indicates poor nutrition or overeating.

Similar symptoms appear in a healthy person after drinking alcohol with a fatty snack. The stomach is not able to digest large amounts of heavy food and alcoholic drinks.

In case of poisoning

If a person has eaten too much fatty, stale or poorly prepared food, nausea is one of the symptoms of food poisoning. This usually applies to expired products and homemade canned goods.

In food poisoning, the stomach lining is irritated by bacteria. Microorganisms and the toxins they release, circulating in the blood, cause intoxication, one of the symptoms of which is nausea.

Vomiting is regarded as a protective reflex that frees the body of toxins and prevents their further absorption. Heaviness in the stomach and nausea persist until the person, through vomiting, frees himself from poor-quality food.

From the medicine

Nausea is often caused by side effects of medications that irritate the gastric mucosa:

• antibiotics;
• Aspirin (in tablets or soluble form);
• hormonal medications;
• iron-containing preparations;
• poisonous homeopathic remedies;
• non-steroidal anti-inflammatory tablets – Ibuprofen, Diclofenac;
• vitamin complexes.

If you feel sick during a course of medication, you should read the instructions for use of the drug. Follow the method of use and storage conditions; consider the expiration date. Most tablets are taken after meals. The medicine leaflet contains information about side effects.

Gastrointestinal diseases

In some diseases, adults cannot digest certain food components. The causes of nausea after a fatty meal are most often gastrointestinal diseases:

• cholelithiasis;
• hepatitis;
• peptic ulcer;
• cholangitis;
• enteritis;
• cholecystitis;
• biliary dyskinesia.
• intestinal dysbiosis;
• pancreatitis;
• erosive gastritis;
• gastroduodenal reflux.

If you feel sick after eating something fried, the reason lies in the dysfunction of the gallbladder. In healthy people, in response to food intake, bile is secreted, containing enzymes for digestion. When there is blockage or spasm of the bile ducts, juices either do not enter the intestines at all or enter in small quantities.

As a result, undigested food stagnates in the stomach, causing nausea followed by vomiting. In this case, the person feels better after freeing himself from the food bolus.

If your stomach hurts after eating fatty foods, the cause is gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). The problem with this pathology lies in the insufficiency of the valve between the esophagus and the stomach. The muscle ring does not close completely. Heavy food in the form of, for example, fatty pies is not digested, which causes nausea. The stomach reflexively throws stagnant food into the esophagus along with acid, which causes heartburn.

Bad things happen after fatty foods with appendicitis. Nausea and vomiting are accompanied by pain in the right half of the abdomen, which radiates to the lower back or navel. Sometimes the temperature rises.

I always feel sick after oily fish and drinking alcohol with pancreatitis. The pancreas produces enzymes for digesting food - amylase, lipase, trypsin. If the outflow is disrupted, the juice remains inside the organ and does not enter the intestine. In this case, enzymes digest gland tissue, causing inflammation. After eating fatty fish or meat, severe abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting occur.

If you experience frequent nausea after fatty foods, you should be examined by a gastroenterologist.

Intestinal infections

Rotavirus infection manifests itself as a combination of intestinal and respiratory syndrome. Since the initial signs of the disease are a sore throat and accompanied by an increase in temperature, the pathology in everyday life is called intestinal flu. In the advanced stage of the disease, abdominal colic, nausea, vomiting, and frequent diarrhea occur.

What to do if your stomach hurts

As a rule, parents are able to eliminate the pain syndrome on their own, but this is acceptable only in cases where the symptom is not accompanied by fever or incessant vomiting. Often, a child’s tummy hurts due to increased gas production and the symptom goes away within a couple of hours after going to the toilet. In this case, there is no need to call a doctor; you just need to feed the baby liquid food and calm him down.

What to do if you have abdominal pain to alleviate your child’s condition? You cannot give any pills to your baby without a doctor's orders. It is better to give a boy or girl an enema (this does not apply to infants - they should not undergo the procedure without a doctor’s permission). If the cause of pain is constipation, supplement the child’s menu with raw vegetables, apricots, and apples.

If you have diarrhea, give your baby more fluids, small amounts and often. Neurotic pain is perfectly relieved by infusion of motherwort and valerian. In addition, your child should be given a glass of warm milk with honey before bedtime. To level out stress, take your baby for walks in the fresh air more often, give him a contrast shower, reduce the time you spend watching TV, and forbid playing on the computer before bed.

Overeating in infants

The problem of overeating in newborns is familiar to many mothers firsthand. It occurs in both breastfed and bottle-fed babies. Since the baby is not able to say that he is full or hungry, he expresses this through his behavior. The parents’ task is to pay special attention to this and not try to feed the baby at the first cry or capricious behavior.

Signs of overeating in newborns:

• Inappropriate weight gain for age.
• Copious regurgitation after feeding.
• Frequent requests from the newborn to attach to the breast result in profuse vomiting.

Based on the above symptoms, the main factor in overfeeding children is vomiting, that is, regurgitation of recently eaten food. This symptom is due to the anatomical features of the gastrointestinal tract of newborns. The stomach of infants is horizontal, and the sphincter that connects the esophagus and stomach has reduced tone.

At the same time, pediatricians advise not to be afraid of children’s overeating during lactation, since the newborn’s body independently determines the amount of food it needs. To avoid overeating, it is strictly forbidden to limit your baby’s food intake. The less often you breastfeed, the more each time your baby will eat and spit up. It is also necessary to observe the frequency of feeding the newborn, taking into account the peculiarities of the children's digestive system.

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Overeating mixture

Since a newborn cannot regulate the process of satiation with an artificial formula, which is unnatural for him, this very often leads to the problem of overeating. Feeding an artificial baby requires special care and adherence to certain rules.

• The process of digesting formula takes twice as long as digesting breast milk. Based on this, the breaks between feedings should be long so that the baby has time to digest what he eats. It is recommended to maintain a three-hour interval between feedings.
• When choosing a nutritional mixture, carefully study its packaging, composition and application features. It would be useful to consult a pediatrician.
• Do not force your child to eat the entire prepared portion of the formula, especially if he refuses. Overfeeding leads to stretching of the children's stomach and disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.
• The baby must suck the mixture from the nipple himself. If food is easily poured out, this leads to the fact that the baby does not feel full, and due to overeating, the children's intestines experience increased stress. In this case, the mixture should completely fill the nipple to minimize air swallowing and regurgitation.

Failure to comply with the above recommendations leads to the development of disorders of the children's digestive system. First of all, the enzymatic apparatus is depleted. Because of this, food entering the intestines is not processed by enzymes, which causes gastrointestinal disorders and disruption of healthy microflora.

Against the backdrop of regular overeating of formula, the child becomes restless and lethargic. Gas and loose stools appear. In particularly severe cases, intussusception may develop, that is, intestinal obstruction, the treatment of which involves surgical intervention.

Overeating while breastfeeding

If a newborn consumes only mother's milk, then his body independently regulates the saturation process. Based on this, overeating breast milk is almost impossible.

• Mother's milk is the most valuable product for a baby. Moreover, the composition of this nutrient fluid changes as the baby grows older.
• The baby takes the breast not only to eat, but also to calm down. The woman’s task is to regularly put the baby to the breast.
• The composition of milk is easily absorbed by the child's body, of course, provided that the mother does not consume allergenic foods and adheres to a healthy diet. Mother's milk is quickly digested.

What to give your child for stomach pain

Medicine for abdominal pain for children should definitely be in the first aid kit of parents. Treatment of colic and bloating involves the baby taking light medications. Their use must be agreed with your doctor. What helps with stomach pain:

• Disflatil;
• Espumisan;
• Festal;
• Enterosgel;
• Mezim;
• Lactovit;
• Linux;
• Activated carbon;
• No-shpa;
• Furazolidone.

About vomiting

Vomiting is a protective mechanism, a reflexive eruption of stomach contents through the mouth (or nose). During an attack, the abdominal press contracts, the esophagus expands, the stomach itself relaxes and pushes everything that is in it up the esophagus. This rather complex process regulates the vomiting center, which in all people is located in the medulla oblongata. Most often, vomit is a mixture of undigested food debris and gastric juice. Sometimes they may contain impurities of pus or blood, bile.

The most common cause of childhood vomiting is food poisoning. Vomiting can be observed with various infectious diseases: rotavirus infection, scarlet fever, typhus.

Less commonly, this problem is caused by accumulated toxins; this condition can occur with serious kidney disease.

Other causes of vomiting include diseases of the stomach and intestines, neurological diagnoses, and head injuries.

In children, vomiting can often be provoked by severe emotional shocks.

Kinds

Doctors distinguish several types of infant vomiting:

• Cyclic vomiting (acetonemic).
• Renal.
• Hepatogenic.
• Diabetic.
• Cardiac.
• Psychogenic.
• Cerebral.
• Bloody.

In most cases, vomiting in children begins at night. The baby wakes up from severe nausea. In this situation, it is important not to be scared or confused. Parents' actions should be calm and confident.

The younger the child, the more dangerous vomiting is for him, since dehydration can occur, which can be fatal for children.

A single vomiting (without any additional symptoms) in a child should not cause much concern for parents, says Evgeny Komarovsky. The fact is that this is how the body “cleanses” itself of accumulated toxins and food elements that the child could not digest. However, parental inaction can be fraught with tragic consequences in cases where vomiting is repeated, as well as if there are other symptoms indicating disorders in the body.

The most common cause of vomiting in children is food poisoning. Poison can enter a baby’s body through various foods: dairy, meat, seafood, vegetables and fruits.

In the vast majority of cases, the gag reflex is caused by nitrates and pesticides used on fruits and vegetables. Even very high-quality meat products can cause severe poisoning if they are prepared incorrectly.

Evgeny Komarovsky emphasizes that the first symptoms of food poisoning usually begin to appear between 4 and 48 hours after eating. Quite often, you can stop vomiting caused by food on your own, at home.

However, Evgeny Komarovsky reminds that there are situations in which mothers and fathers should not engage in independent healing. Medical attention is required:

• Children from 0 to 3 years old.
• Children who vomit due to elevated body temperature.
• Children who have vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain (all or just some of the symptoms) have lasted for more than two days.
• Children who are not “alone” in their illness (if other household members have similar symptoms

There are situations in which a child needs emergency medical attention as soon as possible. You should call an ambulance in one or more of the following conditions:

• Vomiting occurred after eating mushrooms.
• The vomiting is so intense that the baby cannot drink water.
• Vomiting is accompanied by clouding of consciousness, incoherent speech, poor coordination of movements, yellowing of the skin, dry mucous membranes, and the appearance of a rash.
• Vomiting is accompanied by visual enlargement (swelling) of the joints.
• Against the background of repeated vomiting, there is no urination for more than 6 hours, the urine has a dark tint.
• Vomit and (or) feces contain impurities of blood and pus.

While waiting for the doctor to arrive, the child should be placed on his side so that during the next vomiting attack the child does not choke on the vomit. The baby should be held in your arms, on its side. There is no need to give any medications.

In order for the doctor to quickly understand the true cause of the child’s condition, parents must remember in as much detail as possible what the baby ate over the last 24 hours, what he drank, where he was and what he did. In addition, mom and dad will have to carefully examine the vomit in order to then tell the doctor about its color, consistency, whether there is an unusual smell, whether there are any impurities of blood or pus in it.

Analyzing color

Dark vomit (the color of coffee grounds) may indicate serious stomach problems, including peptic ulcers.

First aid

If a child has a tummy ache due to impaired digestion, parents need to carefully monitor their child’s diet: exclude all gas-forming foods from the menu (milk, pickles, beans, bread, kvass, mushrooms), supplement it with fiber. What to do if an acute abdomen occurs? First aid for stomach pain is to call an ambulance. Only a doctor can determine the cause of acute pain and select the appropriate treatment. Before the ambulance arrives, you are only allowed to apply an ice pack to the baby’s stomach to alleviate his condition.

What can you eat when your stomach hurts?

Each pathology requires a specific diet, which is selected by a gastroenterologist. If the cause of pain in a child is indigestion or mild poisoning, it is not necessary to contact a specialist. What can you eat when your stomach hurts:

• lean vegetable soups;
• liquid porridge (semolina, oatmeal, rice, buckwheat);
• boiled, steamed vegetables, except cabbage;
• some crackers;
• lean fish;
• omelet, soft-boiled eggs;
• lean meat (a week after poisoning);
• herbal decoctions, teas;
• honey, jelly;
• baked fruits.

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Common causes of abdominal pain in children - Dr. Komarovsky
Attention! The information presented in the article is for informational purposes only. The materials in the article do not encourage self-treatment. Only a qualified doctor can make a diagnosis and give treatment recommendations based on the individual characteristics of a particular patient.

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