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What Causes Vomiting And Coughing Brown Mucus In A Child?

my 3 year old has vomited about 5 times during the last 24 hours and recently coughed up brown mucus with what looks like bloood. she s in good form but says her tummy hurts, docs did a urine test which was negative yesterday. she hasn t eaten much and i don t know how to help
Thu, 23 Mar 2017
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Hi,
Welcome to HCM. Can understand your concerns.
Vomiting in a 3 year old child can be due to acute gastroenteritis, food poisoning acute gastritis.
* in acute gastroenteritis, there is fever, pain abdomen, vomiting followed by loose stools.
* in acute gastritis, there is vomiting, regurgitation of feed. Fever can be present.
* in food poisoning, there is history of eating food from outside. There is fever and vomiting.
* the main thing that we have to take care is dehydration. Start ORS solution to prevent dehydration. Give more fluids. Give soft diet to child.
* in my opinion, you can give syrup containing ondansetron 0.2 mg/kg. An examination by doctor should be done so that we may not miss any important finding.
I hope this will help you. Wishing your child good health. Take care.
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What Causes Vomiting And Coughing Brown Mucus In A Child?

Hi, Welcome to HCM. Can understand your concerns. Vomiting in a 3 year old child can be due to acute gastroenteritis, food poisoning acute gastritis. * in acute gastroenteritis, there is fever, pain abdomen, vomiting followed by loose stools. * in acute gastritis, there is vomiting, regurgitation of feed. Fever can be present. * in food poisoning, there is history of eating food from outside. There is fever and vomiting. * the main thing that we have to take care is dehydration. Start ORS solution to prevent dehydration. Give more fluids. Give soft diet to child. * in my opinion, you can give syrup containing ondansetron 0.2 mg/kg. An examination by doctor should be done so that we may not miss any important finding. I hope this will help you. Wishing your child good health. Take care.