Question
A one-year-old baby started to have a fever yesterday, with main symptoms including a runny nose and hiccups. This morning, the baby ate some noodles, and in the afternoon, they also had some food but not much. Later, they drank a cup of 200 milliliters of milk powder (milk powder), almost finishing it. Around 2 PM, the baby began to dry heave, vomiting everything they had eaten for lunch, followed by vomiting water. The baby kept vomiting whatever they ate, approximately three to four times. Since the hospital was closed, we went to a pharmacy where the doctor prescribed pediatric digestion-clearing and lung-clearing oral liquid and cefpodoxime capsules for the baby. I want to know if these medications will be effective for the baby? Why is lung-clearing mentioned? Are there more effective ways to help the baby stop dry heaving?
Answer
Dry heaving in children is a pathological phenomenon commonly associated with diseases such as acute enteritis, gastritis, pyloric spasm, hypertrophy or stenosis, pneumonia, and meningitis. The main characteristics include nausea, increased abdominal pressure, frequent vomiting of milk and stomach contents, often with green bile mixed in, and sometimes dry heaving in a jet-like (jet-like) manner. Due to the influence of the primary disease, children often express extreme distress and cry continuously during vomiting. Parents should pay close attention if they notice their child has symptoms of dry heaving and seek medical attention at a hospital as soon as possible.