Question
A child experiences vomiting after eating, accompanied by fever symptoms, and has slightly puffy eyes. The test results show a neutrophil percentage of 0.724, a lymphocyte percentage of 0.198, calcium content of 2.33, and carbon dioxide binding capacity of 19.4. What could this indicate?
Answer
Vomiting refers to the phenomenon where stomach contents or part of the small intestine are refluxed through the esophagus into the mouth, a common gastrointestinal symptom in children. Modern medicine believes that vomiting can be caused by various diseases such as gastrointestinal diseases, fever, brain infection, drug and food poisoning. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that external wind-heat pathogens attacking the stomach, or internal injuries due to improper diet, stomach deficiency with heat, stomach Yang deficiency, and Spleen-Stomach coldness can all lead to Qi deficiency in the stomach and Qi rising upwards, causing vomiting. Severe vomiting often leads to excessive loss of body fluids, causing both Qi and Yin to be deficient. Chronic and recurrent vomiting may lead to weakness in the Spleen and Stomach.