Vomiting is defened as forceful expulsion of gastric contents trough the mouth.
Causes of vomiting:
1.Neonatal vomiting:
-Medical causes:
-Milk:over feeding and irregular feeding,increased intracranial tension for exemple intracranial hemorrhage.
-Systematic infections:urinary tract infections,meningitis and septicemia.
-Systematic and metabolic disorders:galaclosemia,congenital adrenal hyperplasia,drugs.
-Blood stained:hemorrhagic disease of newborn,swallowed maternal blood.
-Surgical:
-Non bile stained:with the first feed there is vomiting(frothy mucoid),coughinh and cyanosis and congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis(milk).
-Bile stained:intestinal obstruction and when the X-ray abdomen shows multiple fluid level.
2.Infancy and Chialdhood:
-Medical:overfeeding and irregular feeding,increased intracranian tension for eemple brain tumour
-Systematic infection:abdominal(appendicitis,hepatitis),meningitis- encephalitis,chest complications(acute bronchitis,pneumonia)
-Systematic and metabolic disease:diabetic ketosis,chronic renal failure,aminoacidophaty,hypervitaminosis,drugs.
-Surgical:intestinal obstruction.
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