Question
A child experiences vomiting after eating, along with fever symptoms, and has slight eye swelling. The examination results show a neutrophil percentage of 0.724, a lymphocyte percentage of 0.198, calcium level 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 is refluxed back into the mouth through the esophagus, a common gastrointestinal symptom in children. Modern medicine believes that vomiting can be caused by various diseases such as gastrointestinal diseases, fever, intracranial infection, drug and food poisoning. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed that external wind-heat pathogenic factors attacking the stomach, or internal injury from diet, stomach deficiency with heat, stomach yang deficiency, and spleen-stomach coldness can all lead to the stomach losing its normal descending function and stomach Qi reversing, resulting in vomiting. Severe vomiting often leads to excessive fluid loss, causing both Qi and Yin deficiency. Long-term recurrent vomiting