Kids - vomiting

Dehydration. The key to treating vomiting at home is to avoid dehydration.The number of times of vomiting that will cause dehydration depends on the size of the child, how much they are vomiting and if they are keeping some fluids down.

CALL DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY 

  • Blood in the vomited material 
  • Yellow or green vomitus
  • Abdominal distention
  • Constant abdominal pain over 1 to 2 hours
  • Mottled, pale skin with cool hands and feet
  • History of recent abdominal injury
  • Is difficult to arouse, confused or delirious or acting sick
  • Unable to keep down important medicines
  • History of significant head injury, especially with other symptoms like severe headache, unsteady gait, weakness, change in behavior
  • Possibility of accidental ingestion of a poison 
  • Choking episode or ingestion of a foreign object
  • Projectile vomiting, especially under 6 months of age
  • Blood in the stool, any stool that looks like "red currant jelly"
  • See fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea for other associated symptoms

CALL DURING NORMAL HOURS 

  • If the child is on medicine that may be making him vomit
  • If the child less than 6 months and vomiting more than 12 hours
  • If the child more than 6 months and vomiting more than 24 hours
  • Associated symptoms that need evaluation
  • Needing to use Gastrolyte for more than 12 hours in an infant under 1 year of age
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