what happens if baby swallows vomit?
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Babies sleep more deeply on their tummy and swallow less frequently. If a baby regurgitates or vomits milk or fluid, these substances will pool at the opening of the airways and are more likely to be inhaled into the baby's airway and lungs. 3.
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These can make vomiting worse. Slowly add bland foods. If you've been able to drink some fluids and haven't thrown up for 6 to 8 hours, try eating small amounts of foods such as bananas, rice, applesauce, unbuttered toast, dry crackers, or dry cereal. Once you're back on solid food, eat small meals every few hours.
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Your baby may sweat, vomit, become pale, and experience spasms or rigidity in one muscle group, such as fingers, arms, or legs. You may also observe gagging, lip smacking, screaming, crying, and loss of consciousness. Absence (petit mal) seizures. Your baby appears to be staring into space or daydreaming.
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Remember, the newborn gag reflex is delicate so gagging is very common. The main differentiator is the sound. Your baby will make noises when he is gagging as the food makes its way out of his mouth.
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Fortunately, this so-called “morning sickness” (which can happen at any time of day) typically goes away by week 12 to 14. So you're used to the vomiting, but one morning you spot a red to brown tinge in your vomit — blood. While vomiting blood during pregnancy (or any time) isn't a good sign, it does happen.
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If your child gags or chokes and spits out the dose before swallowing it, let the child calm down and then give the same amount one more time. If the medicine is vomited (thrown up) right after you give it, wait 20 minutes. Then give the same size dose one more time. If the vomiting continues, call your child's doctor.
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Despite vomiting, a baby with pyloric stenosis is usually hungry again soon after vomiting and will want to eat. It's important to know that even with the vomiting, the baby might not seem to be in great pain or at first look very ill. Changes in stools.
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Babies may vomit, become dehydrated, and lose weight. They may seem to always be hungry. Babies with pyloric stenosis need surgical treatment right away to avoid life-threatening dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. Pyloric stenosis happens in about 3 out of every 1,000 births.
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Do not eat or drink anything until you have the vomiting under control. Once these liquids are tolerated, try a softer diet with bland foods such as mashed potatoes, rice, pureed fruits, smoothies, fruit nectars, yogurt, cereal with milk or soy if you have problems digesting milk.
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If you think your child swallowed something small that isn't sharp (like a plastic bead), you do not need to take him or her to the doctor right away. Call your doctor if your child starts to have any of the following symptoms: vomiting, gagging, drooling, not eating, stomach pain, coughing, or wheezing.
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['Give clear liquids (avoid milk and milk products) in small amounts every 15 minutes. ... ', 'If your child vomits, start over with a smaller amount of fluid (2 teaspoons, or about 10 milliliters) and continue as above. ... ', 'After no vomiting for about 8 hours, introduce solid foods slowly.']
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First, the frightening stuff If the coin lodges in the esophagus, your child will exhibit signs of increased salivation, difficulty swallowing, vomiting, neck pain, chest pain or coughing. These, too, are extremely alarming — and the child should be brought to the ER immediately.
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Children who are vomiting should keep taking small sips of clear fluid, such as water or clear broth. Fruit juice and fizzy drinks should be avoided until they're feeling better. If they're not dehydrated and haven't lost their appetite, it's fine for your child to eat solid foods as normal.
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Choking and GERD Choking — i.e. gagging — during feedings can be a sign of newborn acid reflux or GERD, since some of the contents of the stomach back up into the esophagus.
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If your baby is vomiting, carry on breastfeeding or giving them milk feeds. If they seem dehydrated, they will need extra fluids. Ask your GP or pharmacist whether you should give your baby oral rehydration solution. Oral rehydration solution is a special powder that you make into a drink.
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Spit-up, just like vomit, can contain stomach acid. Babies' spit-up becomes curdled when milk from breastfeeding or formula mixes with the acidic stomach fluid.
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All babies spit up― especially after gulping down air with breastmilk or formula. When the stomach is full or a baby's position suddenly changed after a feeding, you'd better have a cloth handy. The stomach contents can force the sphincter open and flood back up the esophagus. Some babies spit up more than others.