Question
The child has been taking Chinese medicine for opsonize recently. Yesterday, the doctor prescribed a nose drip formula because she had a fever and a lot of runny nose. However, after returning home, she said her stomach hurt and she vomited the medicine and the food she had eaten earlier. This happened again this morning. This situation hasn’t happened before when she took Chinese medicine. Previous treatment and effects: Because the child is weak and often has a fever, she has been seeing a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner recently, having taken more than a dozen prescriptions of Chinese medicine, but they were all different. Some were for expelling worms, some for treating colds, and this time it was for excessive runny nose, but the child couldn’t take the medicine as it caused stomach pain and nausea. Desired assistance: I want to know if the child has a poor gastrointestinal condition or if we should stop the medication. Is it a problem with the medicine? Should we stop taking it for two days or should we not take it at all?
Answer
Dry heaving is a pathological phenomenon commonly seen in acute enteritis, gastritis, pyloric spasm, hypertrophy, stenosis, pneumonia, meningitis, and other diseases. Its main characteristics are accompanied by nausea, increased abdominal pressure, frequent vomiting of milk, and dry heaving with a large amount of milk clumps and gastric contents, sometimes mixed with green bile juice. Due to the primary disease involved, the child often shows a painful expression and cries excessively during vomiting. When parents notice dry heaving symptoms in their child, they must pay close attention and seek medical attention in a timely manner. It is also important to pay attention to providing the baby with a balanced diet. Suggestion: To boost the baby’s immunity, you can try giving them bovine colostrum, such as Soul Yangguang bovine colostrum. In addition to containing abundant high-quality protein, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients, it also contains active immunoglobulins that can inhibit bacterial colonization.