All about Vomiting

Although there is one end point to this and that is ‘emptying your stomach contents out through your mouth’ – there are many different starting points! These include:-

• Eating something which your body rejects because it is poisonous in some way, like bad or infected food
• Seeing or smelling something disgusting, like other people throwing up or very dirty toilets
• As part of another illness like having ‘flu’, or meningitis
• A bad bang on the head/concussion
• As part of diarrhoea and vomiting
• Having too much alcohol
• As part of bulimia when people make themselves vomit by sticking their fingers down their throat (not a good idea!)

What to do if you start throwing up.
This depends on what is causing it the first place:

• If you have a bad headache or fever with it – get to see a doctor quick because of worries about meningitis
• For all causes of vomiting – STOP eating, have small sips of water or other non milk, non alcoholic drinks – water, flat coke, or fruit juices are best
• - get help if it carries on