Your Guide to Nausea and Vomiting: Causes and Remedies

• Projectile vomiting: This type of vomiting involves forcefully expelling stomach contents in a rapid and powerful manner. It often occurs with conditions like gastroenteritis, pyloric stenosis, or increased intracranial pressure.
• Dry heaving: Also known as retching, dry heaving involves the act of vomiting without expelling any stomach contents. It's often associated with nausea and can occur due to various reasons such as overeating, alcohol intoxication, or gastrointestinal irritation.
• Bilious vomiting: This type of vomiting involves the expulsion of bile from the stomach. It often occurs when there's an obstruction in the intestines or if a person hasn't eaten for a prolonged period, leading to bile refluxing into the stomach.
• Coffee ground vomiting: This type of vomiting involves the expulsion of partially digested blood, which appears coffee ground-like in color and texture. It can indicate bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal tract, such as from peptic ulcers or esophageal varices.
• Projectile vomiting: This is characterized by vomiting that occurs with such force that it can travel a significant distance away from the person vomiting. It is often seen in infants with conditions like pyloric stenosis.
• Fecal vomiting: In rare cases of severe gastrointestinal obstruction, fecal matter can back up into the stomach and be expelled through vomiting.

• Food Poisoning
• Indigestion
• Infections
• Motion Sickness
• Pregnancy
• Headaches
• Medications
• Anesthesia
• Chemotherapy

• Physical Examination
• Medical History
• Blood Test
• Urine Test
• Pregnancy Test (if applicable)
• Upper GI Endoscopy

• Vomiting that is caused for more than one day
• Food poisoning
• Severe headache and stiff neck
• Abdominal pain
• Blood vomiting

• Drinking plenty of liquids to get rid of dehydration
• Take a liquid diet to give some rest to your stomach
• Avoid using strong perfumes
• If you are taking solid food, prefer digestible food like cereal and rice.
• Avoid eating spicy foods someday.
• Avoid physical activities
• Eating light and bland foods
• Eat slowly and take smaller bites
• Avoid activity after eating
• Do deep breathing exercises

• Hydration: Drink small amounts of clear fluids like water, broth, or herbal tea about 30 minutes after vomiting stops. Rehydrating is crucial to prevent dehydration, especially for children.
• Avoid Certain Beverages: Stay away from alcohol and carbonated drinks as they can worsen nausea and dehydration.
• Soothing Remedies: Try sucking on hard candies like lemon drops or mints to ease unpleasant tastes. Ginger tea, ginger ale, or hard ginger candies can also help alleviate nausea due to their natural anti-nausea properties.
• Aromatherapy: Certain scents like lavender, chamomile, lemon oil, peppermint, rose, and clove can reduce nausea when smelled.
• Acupressure: Applying pressure to point P-6, located on the inner wrist below the index finger, may help relieve nausea.
• Seek Medical Advice: If vomiting persists for more than a day or if there's blood in the vomit or it looks like coffee grounds, it's important to seek immediate medical attention.

• ORS (Oral Rehydration Solution): Prepare homemade ORS by mixing 2 spoons of sugar, a pinch of salt, lemon, cumin powder, and mint leaves in 200 ml of water. Giving sips of this drink to children can help replenish fluids and prevent dehydration.
• Ice Chips: Giving small ice chips at frequent intervals can reduce vomiting and help prevent dehydration in children.

If you have planned for a trip and you have a history of motion sickness in this case you can take advice from Doctor and he will prescribe you medicines. For the patients who are going through chemotherapy, the doctor may change your drug therapy.
The doctor might prescribe antiemetic drugs for vomiting.

• Drink enough water
• Drinking Juice
• Taking deep breath
• Wrist acupressure
• Try taking ginger, fennel, and cloves
• Sugar and saltwater
• Take lemonade water