Vomiting is the expulsion, with force, the contents of the stomach through the mouth. Often preceded or accompanied by nausea and stomach pain. Some children vomit so hard that they are small red spots the size of a pinhead on the face, neck and upper chest are known as petechiae and effort that go away by themselves. In addition, many infants, after the shots, throw small puffs of milk without any effort (spitting up) that are normal.

They usually present with diarrhea, runny nose, cough, fever, earaches, sore throat, headache, etc. The most frequent is the intestinal infection (gastroenteritis) virus that is usually accompanied by diarrhea and cramps, but the causes can be many and, depending on age, some are more frequent than others.

Some children vomit easily. Some do every so often repeated (cyclic vomiting) and have a characteristic smell like apple (acetone) in the breath and urine during episodes of vomiting, without giving any disease.

What to do?

The best way to induce vomiting in a child forced to eat even more if you are sick with colds, coughs, etc. Better content to take small amounts of food to try to finish the dish. If you are ill and have no interest in food, offer at least that will prevent liquids can become dehydrated.

Better content to take small amounts of food to try to finish the dish

Often a sick child after you are thirsty and want to drink large amounts of fluid, which returns to vomit. If he vomits, but it is good, it’s best to let him rest for a reasonable time of 15 to 20 minutes or let him sleep if you want (sleep helps to empty the stomach and alleviates vomiting) and then provide small amounts of liquids (preferred fruit juice to water) in small sips or a tablespoon (about 10 milliliters) every 10 to 15 minutes. Some older children prefer a refreshing drink that we can remove part of the agitating gas before drinking. If your child has diarrhea, you may want to use pharmaceutical preparations (hydrating solution) consisting of an envelope to dissolve in water. The amount of water will be different depending on the brand, so it should follow the package directions. When you tolerate liquids for 1 to 2 hours, invite to take any food you want, without forcing and avoiding high-sugar (sweet) or acids, and still getting fluids between meals. If your child asks for food is a good sign.

In a study of 25 children and adolescents with migraine or chronic tension headaches, the authors found that symptoms tended to worsen on rainy days or when the humidity was above the normal mark.

Participants tended to be almost three times more likely to have headache when it rained or increased humidity, compared with drier climate, report in the journal Headache.

Often, people with migraine or other headaches are often debilitating to mention the weather changes within the triggers. But there is no solid evidence.

The authors present the participants with handheld computers to record headache symptoms in “real time” for two weeks. They then compared these data with climate, the team met with specialist software.

For the team of Dr. Mark Connelly, the Children’s Hospital and Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, the results are a step forward from previous studies.

The study found that during the rainy season, children had a 59 percent chance of having symptoms of headache, compared with 21 percent of days without rain.

Humid days, this possibility was up 58 percent versus 22 percent of the days with average humidity.

“The results somewhat support the belief that the time changes would favor the emergence of recurrent headaches in children,” the team said.

It is not known exactly why the rain and humidity would cause this effect. The study also underestimated for other climate variables.

A recent study of 7,000 patients with severe migraine or not migraine headaches found that the risk of having symptoms grew hotter days and less barometric pressure, which occurs when the sky is overcast and there are storms.

But in the study, there was a specific relationship between the symptoms of headache and barometric changes.

According to the authors, further studies are needed to understand how weather changes affect the symptoms of headache in the population and how that information might help patients.

The study compared hospitalization rates for acute respiratory infection in children with congenital heart disease without Down syndrome and Down syndrome children with and without heart disease, all under 24 months. The results showed that hospital admissions for respiratory infections, especially RSV dominate syndrome children.

“As a specific example among those with mild heart disease and have not benefited immunoprophylaxis protocols against the virus,” says Julian Lily, a pediatrician at the Hospital Niño Jesús in Madrid and author of the study.
By its physical, morphological alterations of upper and lower respiratory, immunological, pulmonary hypertension, or poor muscle tone, these children have a high predisposition to respiratory infections such as RSV bronchiolitis and pneumonia. They are more frequent and more severe than those developed for children without such chromosomal alterations.

CIVIC 21 data points to a vulnerability of these patients compared to respiratory syncytial virus: a 20% syndrome children admitted for acute respiratory infection, of which 20.7% ended in a pediatric intensive care unit, compared 11% of children without the syndrome, although with congenital heart disease.

The study highlights that children under 24 months old with Down syndrome and congenital heart disease monopolize nonsignificant increased risk of admission for respiratory infection, most often due to respiratory syncytial virus, while children who do not have this syndrome disorder heart have a risk of hospitalization for acute respiratory infection similar to those with congenital heart disease (22% and 23% respectively).
The main conclusion emphasizes lily, is the ability to modify the recommendations for antibiotic prophylaxis in infants with Down syndrome, “even though they have no significant heart disease. Regarding the seasonality of the virus, the critical months were December and January.

The respiratory microorganism known as baby virus causes a localized infection of the respiratory system, but is generally mild, in certain risk groups, the consequences can be of greater severity. It was thought that children were born prematurely who were more likely to be infected by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) as they have fewer defenses. However, also the babies with Down syndrome who have not completed 24 months are at increased risk of acute respiratory infection with RSV, compared with children of that age is not affected by the syndrome.

As they were not considered a risk group so far, newborns with Down syndrome did not receive prophylactic treatment are those who hoard the largest number of admissions to hospital with serious breathing problems. This has been shown the CIVIC 21, an epidemiological study of two-year (2006-2008), coordinated by the Spanish Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease (SECPCC) and sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry with the approval of the Ethics Committee Clinical Research of the Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona.

Although the anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) diclofenac is commonly used to treat acute pain in children is not approved for that purpose in all age groups. However, a new review suggests that perhaps should be authorized.

The team of Dr Imogen Savage, University of London, searched the literature on studies that examined the diclofenac as a treatment for acute pain in children aged 18 or less.

The authors found seven studies that observed the efficacy of analgesic and 79 that focused on safety.

In the efficacy analysis, the focus was usually on postoperative pain. In this regard, the use of diclofenac reduced by 40 percent the need to use painkillers “rescue”, compared with the use of placebo or no treatment.

As for security, Savage and his colleagues found that children treated with diclofenac were 40 percent less likely to suffer nausea or vomiting, compared with children who received other drugs.

Less than 0.24 percent of children experienced serious side effects after taking diclofenac and none had episodes of bleeding that required surgery.

Savage told Reuters Health that diclofenac is “a useful drug in children, and one that is already used quite widely in the UK, although formulas probably need more ‘child-friendly’.”

The results of the review appear in the Cochrane Library, a publication of the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research.