Gastrointestinal diseases, the main sign of which is constipation, very often occurring in both the child and the adult, are always accompanied by unpleasant concomitant symptoms. The most common with delays in the stool are soreness and bloating, nausea, often resulting in vomiting, heartburn, "tasteless" belch. Often they are accompanied and obschefiziologicheskimi violations. The patient has weakness and apathy, dizziness, the temperature can rise significantly. Any person after the appearance of such symptoms begins to worry about the question of why it originated, what is the main reason?
If the patient has nausea, vomiting, constipation and other negative gastrointestinal symptoms that occur against a background of a significant increase in temperature, it can be both functional and organic diseases of the digestive tract, for the detection of which an urgent diagnostic study is needed. Before carrying out it, until the cause, provoking the appearance of such signs, is clarified, physicians call this state of the patient a sharp stomach. The following pathologies may provoke the appearance of such symptoms:
- Acute appendicitis most often causes symptoms such as constipation, vomiting, fever and abdominal pain. In this case, the person also significantly decreases appetite, and he feels constant podtashnevanie;
- Infringement of the hernia is also accompanied by pain, which is diffuse. Diagnosis in this case is difficult because of the lack of localization. Clinical picture of this pathology is supplemented with constipation, vomiting and bloating;
- Intoxication of the body, which occurs due to intestinal obstruction and prolonged constipation, except these manifestations is usually accompanied by dizziness, nausea, heartburn and belching.
Physiological causes also cause constipation and vomiting. Here you can identify such factors as overeating, psychoemotional stress, pregnancy. These prerequisites, unlike the above, do not represent threats to life and health, and the unpleasant symptoms caused by them can be easily eliminated by correcting the diet and way of life.
How dangerous is vomiting and constipation in a child?
This condition, which has arisen in the baby, for no reason disturbs the parents. Cope with the delay of the chair alone, with the help of diet and increase in physical exertion can only be when it does not accompany additional negative symptoms. If prolonged constipation in the child is accompanied by constant nausea, sometimes resulting in severe vomiting, pains and bloating, they are accompanied by a sour eructation or heartburn, weakness, dizziness and a significant increase in temperature, no self-medication can be a question. Urgent need a doctor! In this situation, it can be any serious disease of the gastrointestinal tract, often carrying a real threat to life.
The reasons for the fact that the child has such signs with constipation, and there is a significant increase or decrease in body temperature, there may be diseases of the endocrine system or intestines, spinal cord disorders, poliomyelitis and other pathologies of the body. Any delay in conducting diagnostic tests with the appearance of constipation and vomiting for babies is very dangerous. It is necessary to consult a doctor who will make sure that there are no dangerous diseases and will prescribe an adequate treatment.
Constipation, nausea and abdominal pain, what should I do?
This issue, when this symptom occurs, even accompanied by strong vomiting, weakness, becomes the main one for most patients, it's no secret that many adults do not hurry to consult a specialist with such a delicate problem as violation of defecation. Such tactics of behavior are fundamentally wrong, because, proceeding accompanied by severe vomiting, constipation is dangerous because dehydration and intoxication of the body can occur quickly enough. In addition, acute stool retention always smoothly passes into a chronic form, which is much more difficult to cure. What are the signs of pathology that require urgent medical attention? It is necessary to do this in the following cases:
- In addition to vomiting during constipation, there is a significant fever and fever;
- Pain syndrome, which appears in the left lower abdomen, and its strong swelling, when the gases practically do not depart;
- Fecal masses of solid consistency have acquired the form of ribbons, tubes or balls.
A very big danger, both for children and adults, is the appearance of seizures against the background of constipation and vomiting. In all these situations it is necessary to urgently call an ambulance. If the delay of the stool lasting several days has no special negative manifestations, and the patient's quality of life is practically not broken, you can try to cope with the problem yourself. To help in this situation will come a correction of nutrition and increased physical activity.
Medications for vomiting, nausea, constipation and dizziness
When it is thoroughly known that such a symptom is caused not by serious pathologies, but has arisen as a result of certain physiological disorders, it is possible to use medicamentous therapy. But an adult patient, as well as a child, can do this only after a preliminary consultation with an expert. Doctors in most cases, with the appearance of vomiting, heartburn, eructation, pain and bloating, appoint Enterofuril. You can give it to patients with rotavirus infection, that is, when the stool is delayed with diarrhea.
Usually the drug is used for infectious diarrhea, so patients are always interested in why specialists recommend giving it during stool delay. There is nothing surprising. This drug is an antimicrobial agent intended for the treatment of infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, and vomiting accompanying constipation is just indicative of the pathology of this form.
But it is necessary to take into account that it is possible to give Enterofuril for vomiting and constipation only if the application is approved by a specialist and in accordance with the attached annotation. This is necessary due to the fact that the drug has contraindications. Over-the-counter sale of this drug in pharmacies is not an occasion for self-prescribing it for the treatment of constipation and vomiting. Contraindications to the appointment of medicamentite is hypersensitivity to nitrofuran derivatives. Also, it is not used for the treatment of newborns in the first month of life or premature infants. As side effects of the drug, it is noted that the patient develops allergic reactions. Categorically it is not recommended to drink alcohol during the therapeutic activities conducted with this medication.