How to stop vomiting at home?
Vomiting is a complex act that results in the ejection of stomach contents out through the mouth. Vomiting is a symptom that indicates that there are some disorders in the human body. Vomiting can be exhausting and single, weak and gushing, it can be combined with other symptoms, which directly depends on what caused it.
There are situations in which vomiting requires compulsory medical intervention, since the cause that caused it poses a threat to the health or life of a person. But it also happens that vomiting indicates minor disturbances in the body, and in this case, you can try to alleviate the condition on your own.
Content:
- How to stop vomiting in case of poisoning?
- How to stop vomiting during motion sickness?
- How to stop vomiting with toxicosis in pregnant women?
- How to stop vomiting not associated with illness?
- How to stop vomiting in severe illnesses?
- Preventing dehydration after stopping vomiting at home
How to stop vomiting in case of poisoning?
If vomiting in a person is caused by poisoning, then the first task that confronts the patient is gastric lavage. Of course, this procedure is very unpleasant, but it will not only stop the subsequent vomiting, but also ease the course of the disease. Doctors call gastric lavage at home the "restaurant method".
An adult will need about five liters of water (boiled, but not hot) to wash the stomach.
One of the following compounds dissolves in it:
- Two tablespoons of salt (this solution causes a spasm of the sphincter of the stomach and prevents toxins from moving further);
- Several grains of potassium permanganate, namely enough so that the water acquires a light pink hue (the solution helps to bind toxins, has antimicrobial and antiseptic effects);
- Two tablespoons of baking soda;
- Five tablespoons of powdered activated carbon (binds toxins and prevents them from entering the bloodstream).
After the solution is ready, it is necessary to either lay the patient on his side (place his head below the body), or sit down. The loan is forced to drink about 500 ml at a time, after which he needs to provoke vomiting. To do this, a person should press on the root of the tongue. The procedure is repeated until the water leaving the stomach is clear. As a rule, flushing helps prevent further vomiting and improves the patient's well-being. Special antiemetics are not taken in case of poisoning.
How to stop vomiting during motion sickness?
If vomiting is caused by seasickness, or occurs during motion sickness in a moving vehicle, then it is possible to use special antiemetic drugs.
Among those:
- Avia-sea (homeopathic remedy), is used only for kinetosis. The product is available in the form of tablets for resorption and in the form of tablets for oral administration. The same group of drugs includes such drugs as: Borax, Petroleum, Veratrum album, Kokkulus.
- Drugs that affect the parasympathetic nervous system, such as Aeron.
- Antihistamines - Bonin, Dramina.
- Antiemetics - Metoclopramide, Cerucal, Torecan.
- Drugs that allow the body to adapt to motion sickness - Bemitil, Eleutherococcus.
If a person knows that he is sick in transport, it is best to consult a doctor who will select the drug that is optimal for him.
How to stop vomiting with toxicosis in pregnant women?
If vomiting occurs in pregnant women, then you can try to prevent it by proper rest, walking in the fresh air, refusal of fatty and fried foods. When such gentle methods do not help, then you need to contact a doctor, who, after an examination, will recommend taking a certain drug.
So, with vomiting caused by toxicosis, it is possible to use the combined preparation Aeron. But it should be borne in mind that it has a depressing effect on the vestibular apparatus, on the central nervous system, on the extrapyramidal system. It can only be taken after medical advice. Similar drugs include: Etperazin and Cerucal (contraindicated in the first trimester). In addition, taking antihistamines, hepatoprotectors, enterosorbents (Polysorb, Polyphepan), vitamin therapy and detoxifying agents (Splenin) can help pregnant women.
Find out more: How to fight and cope with toxicosis?
How to stop vomiting not associated with illness?
If vomiting is provoked by mild indigestion, or due to nervous tension or stress, then its subsequent attack can be prevented.
To do this, you need to competently provide yourself or another person with first aid:
- You need to make sure that the vomit container is nearby, and you don't have to run after it the next time you attack.
- After vomiting, rinse your mouth well, freeing it from particles of vomit and from bile. Rinse your mouth with warm water. If this is not done, you can provoke a second attack.
- Helps prevent subsequent vomiting mint drops, cold water, a piece of ice. All these remedies should be offered to the patient to try.
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The patient should be in bed all the time. It is worth protecting him as much as possible from any excitement and stress, giving him the opportunity to calm down.
- For several hours, you need to try to refrain from eating, even if vomiting does not recur.
- When a person experiences severe hunger after vomiting, then you can offer him to drink warm sweet tea and eat crackers.
As a rule, these activities are enough to stop vomiting at home.
How to stop vomiting in severe illnesses?
When vomiting is caused by radiation or chemotherapy, patients are prescribed
for taking at home special antiemetic drugs. All of them differ in the mechanism of action and are selected according to an individual program. Such medicines include: Bonin, Lorazepam, Prochlorperazine, Raglan, Dexamethasone, etc.
With Meniere's disease, patients are prescribed drugs: Dramina, Torekan, Cerucal.
When vomiting is caused by seizures of epilepsy, neuroses, nervous tension, chronic alcoholism, damage to the brain or spinal cord, it is possible to use tranquilizers. Currently, they are prescribed exclusively by prescription and can be used at home when people have a serious illness, accompanied by vomiting and other severe symptoms. Drugs that inhibit reflexes and the work of the central nervous system are Diazepam, Parazepam, Relanium, Rudotel, Seduxen, Elenium. The dosage of these drugs must be strictly observed.
Preventing dehydration after stopping vomiting at home
After any, even a single vomiting, the body begins to suffer from dehydration.
To prevent this, you must follow the following rules:
- Strictly observe the drinking regime. Both the child and the adult should drink, even if he does not want to.
- Oral rehydration is always indicated after vomiting. It is best to use special preparations for this purpose, for example, Regidron, Oralit, etc.
- You can prepare a saline solution yourself, for this you need a teaspoon of salt, 4 teaspoons of sugar per liter of boiled water, you can add half a teaspoon of soda.
- The solution should be at room temperature. It is drunk in small sips, every 10 minutes.
- One-time intake of large amounts of water can provoke a second attack of vomiting.
When signs of dehydration are weak or absent altogether, and vomiting has completely stopped, then you can offer the patient berry jelly, sweet warm tea, fruit drink.
Author of the article: Alekseeva Maria Yurievna | Therapist
Education: From 2010 to 2016 Practitioner of the therapeutic hospital of the central medical-sanitary unit No. 21, city of elektrostal. Since 2016 she has been working in the diagnostic center No. 3.
