Because nausea & vomiting in children is not a disorder or disease, you can treat it easily with medications or even using home remedies. However, taking medications with many children is quite hard when they suffer from vomiting frequently. Viral gastroenteritis, occurring in the stomach is one of the main causes of nausea in children. There are also some of other common causes such as stomach upset and other infections associated with the airways, ears, throat, chest, fever, and urinary tract, etc. In these cases, it will be better to choose natural home remedies that may help to reduce the vomiting and give relief from the problem until the baby recovers from it.
Ginger is very famous for its healing properties that are beneficial in treating nausea in both adults and children. It aids in promoting the secretion of different digestive juices that balance the acid levels in the stomach; therefore, keeping the muscles relaxed.
Simply, just add 1/2 inch of peeled ginger to clean water and bring it a boil. Then, you give this water to your baby in small quantities regularly.
When the vomiting in your baby occurs continuously, you need to ensure that there is no dehydration. Dehydration occurs when the body loses a huge amount of water, which makes it no longer function properly. If this condition lasts longer, it can become serious and even life-threatening. So, to prevent this condition from happening, ensure that your child drinks enough extra water to restore the lost fluids. If your baby vomits the fluids, you need the help of your pediatrician.
Frequent vomiting can make the walls of stomach inflamed and sensitive to the consumed foods. Drinking or eating too much will further make the stomach walls worse by stretching them out. And this will further make the condition as well as its symptoms worse. Therefore, reduce the intake of food that you give your child throughout this period.
Limit adding all types of solid foods to his or her diet until he or she stops vomiting for about 12 hours. Moreover, avoid forcing your child to drink or eat if he or she does not like this because this will only increase nausea & vomiting. Instead, allow him or her to rest for a while and then try giving your child some foods.
Peppermint contains refreshing & remarkable properties that help to soothe an upset tummy. Therefore, chewing a few fresh peppermint leaves can also help your baby to relieve this problem. However, if your baby not possible to chew these leaves, take 1 tablespoon of peppermint leaves, half a teaspoon of ginger paste and then place them on a sieve to extract their juice. Now, add 1 teaspoon of raw honey to it. Finally, give this solution to your baby in 2 equal doses.
Children with frequent vomiting are recommended consuming the BRAT diet (bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast) to control this condition & its symptoms. Do not feed your child foods that can increase vomiting and irritate the stomach lining. Instead, feed your child bland foods such as clear soups, bananas, rice, dry toast, boiled potatoes, crackers, ginger ale, etc.
Give this diet to your baby for about 2 days and gradually switch to other foods and increase the quantity. Please note that maintaining the BRAT diet for a long period of time may cause nutritional deficiencies. Hence, you should switch to a regular diet as soon as your child begins feeling better and stop vomiting for about 48 hours.
In fact, the fresh scent of a lemon slice may also reduce the feeling of nausea. Moreover, lemon tea can give a soothing and refreshing effect to the stomach.
Simply, add a pinch of salt and 1 teaspoon of sugar to 1 cup of water and then bring it to a boil. Next, add 1 pinch of tea powder to it and turn off the heat and sieve this liquid into a clean cup. Now, add 1/2 tablespoon of lemon juice to this cup and give the solution to your child. Kids always love this flavor.
This condition in children can become worse due to some factors such as smoke, cooking smells, perfumes, humidity, heat, a stuffy room, etc. You should reduce these triggers until your child stops vomiting and gets over the illness completely.
Besides, trying to keep the room of your child cool at all times is essential. Open a window to allow the air to enter in this room during the day. Maintain the moisture indoors with a humidifier. Do not use perfumes, room fresheners, and deodorants that work as potential triggers. Avoid cooking foods that can produce odors and try to keep your child in bed until she or he recovers from this condition because, in cases, sudden movements may also trigger nausea and vomiting.
When it comes to nausea, its feeling is very awful and your child tends to control it because he or she is scared of throwing up that makes his or her more uncomfortable. Therefore, soothe your child and then say that vomiting is a way of the body to throw out something that can be harmful to the stomach. Try to explain that your child will feel better when he or she lets it out.
In some cases, encouraging your child to sleep can aid in reducing vomiting by emptying his/her stomach and controlling the feeling of nausea. In point of fact, frequent vomiting will surely drain your child and then he or she will readily fall asleep if you ask to do. Avoid waking up him or her in between. Instead, allow your child to sleep peacefully and to wake up on his or her own. Then, try feeding your baby liquids.
If your child is at home, place him or her in a comfortable position as well as avoid having too much of activity to reduce the feeling of nausea. However, if your child is feeling nauseous because of motion sickness, you should also notice the position that your child is sitting in. He or she ought to face forward and avoid leaning sideways or backward. In case your child suffers from motion sickness regularly, ensure that his or her stomach should be empty or not too full before the journey because this triggers the feeling of nausea. Therefore, you should give something to your child an hour before traveling.
Here are a few of natural home remedies for nausea and vomiting in children that you should be aware of to take care of your child!
Guest Post by Hang Pham
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This guest post is by Hang Pham, a blogger with over 10 years of experience on searching the effective remedies for problems related to health and beauty talk.
Top 10 Natural Home Remedies For Nausea And Vomiting In Children
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