Anonymous wrote:Ask the doctor about a probiotic.

jsmith123 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8 year old didn’t throw up for about 2 years. Then she threw up one day in Oct., one day in Nov., and one day in Dec. I took her to the ped after the 3rd time. She said I could try probiotic but not to expect a miracle. She checked her stomach (nothing seemed abnormal from the exam) and her throat (no strep). And to keep a log of what she ate when she got sick. Then she threw up one day in Jan.

I did note of all things she had chickpeas the day before in Dec and Jan. I mentioned this at her well visit and dr said might be worth talking to an allergist.

Could still be bad luck with viruses - idk.

Is the vomiting single instance, or is it a 24 hour bug?

Anonymous wrote:I think you have to define what you mean by stomach bug. Vomiting once or twice is not a stomach bug in my opinion and kids can end up in that type of scenario relatively frequently. Vomiting every hour or so for several hours on end and then resolving…stomach bug.

Kids vomit for a lot of different illnesses. GI involvement is just much more common for a variety of viruses. With all of the nasty viruses going around this year I could see 4-5 times (flu, strep, a bad cough, actual stomach bug….that would hit the 4). My kid had a stomach bug in the fall, and also threw up a few times when they had Flu A. I recently had a bad virus that made me really nauseated…I would see how a kid might end up vomiting a couple of times, etc.

So are we talking about 4-5 stomach bugs with significant, hours-long vomiting? Or 4-5 vomiting incidents?

No harm to see a GI doc anyway. Might also look into probiotics. And food allergies often cause vomiting.

Good luck.

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jsmith123 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8 year old didn’t throw up for about 2 years. Then she threw up one day in Oct., one day in Nov., and one day in Dec. I took her to the ped after the 3rd time. She said I could try probiotic but not to expect a miracle. She checked her stomach (nothing seemed abnormal from the exam) and her throat (no strep). And to keep a log of what she ate when she got sick. Then she threw up one day in Jan.

I did note of all things she had chickpeas the day before in Dec and Jan. I mentioned this at her well visit and dr said might be worth talking to an allergist.

Could still be bad luck with viruses - idk.

Is the vomiting single instance, or is it a 24 hour bug?

More like a 6 hour bug each time.

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Anonymous wrote:

jsmith123 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8 year old didn’t throw up for about 2 years. Then she threw up one day in Oct., one day in Nov., and one day in Dec. I took her to the ped after the 3rd time. She said I could try probiotic but not to expect a miracle. She checked her stomach (nothing seemed abnormal from the exam) and her throat (no strep). And to keep a log of what she ate when she got sick. Then she threw up one day in Jan.

I did note of all things she had chickpeas the day before in Dec and Jan. I mentioned this at her well visit and dr said might be worth talking to an allergist.

Could still be bad luck with viruses - idk.

Is the vomiting single instance, or is it a 24 hour bug?

More like a 6 hour bug each time.

Our DD gets some thing like that’s where it lasts anywhere from 1 to 6 hours, vomiting and nausea. DD would look super pale and end up taking a quick nap which was unusual. Turns out it was migraines. It was happening about once a month.

jsmith123 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsmith123 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8 year old didn’t throw up for about 2 years. Then she threw up one day in Oct., one day in Nov., and one day in Dec. I took her to the ped after the 3rd time. She said I could try probiotic but not to expect a miracle. She checked her stomach (nothing seemed abnormal from the exam) and her throat (no strep). And to keep a log of what she ate when she got sick. Then she threw up one day in Jan.

I did note of all things she had chickpeas the day before in Dec and Jan. I mentioned this at her well visit and dr said might be worth talking to an allergist.

Could still be bad luck with viruses - idk.

Is the vomiting single instance, or is it a 24 hour bug?

More like a 6 hour bug each time.

Our DD gets some thing like that’s where it lasts anywhere from 1 to 6 hours, vomiting and nausea. DD would look super pale and end up taking a quick nap which was unusual. Turns out it was migraines. It was happening about once a month.

Yes, this is the exact thing that happens with my son too.

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jsmith123 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsmith123 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8 year old didn’t throw up for about 2 years. Then she threw up one day in Oct., one day in Nov., and one day in Dec. I took her to the ped after the 3rd time. She said I could try probiotic but not to expect a miracle. She checked her stomach (nothing seemed abnormal from the exam) and her throat (no strep). And to keep a log of what she ate when she got sick. Then she threw up one day in Jan.

I did note of all things she had chickpeas the day before in Dec and Jan. I mentioned this at her well visit and dr said might be worth talking to an allergist.

Could still be bad luck with viruses - idk.

Is the vomiting single instance, or is it a 24 hour bug?

More like a 6 hour bug each time.

Our DD gets some thing like that’s where it lasts anywhere from 1 to 6 hours, vomiting and nausea. DD would look super pale and end up taking a quick nap which was unusual. Turns out it was migraines. It was happening about once a month.

Yes, this is the exact thing that happens with my son too.

This exact thing happens with my son too. Our ped is not helpful and said to see a neurologist. Have you don’t anything that has helped?

Our family has had 3 stomach viruses cycle through everyone this school year, plus one of my children has celiac and the other has the migraines. So much vomit in my house. I think before this year, we maybe had 1 stomach thing once a year or every other year. This year has been brutal.

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jsmith123 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsmith123 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8 year old didn’t throw up for about 2 years. Then she threw up one day in Oct., one day in Nov., and one day in Dec. I took her to the ped after the 3rd time. She said I could try probiotic but not to expect a miracle. She checked her stomach (nothing seemed abnormal from the exam) and her throat (no strep). And to keep a log of what she ate when she got sick. Then she threw up one day in Jan.

I did note of all things she had chickpeas the day before in Dec and Jan. I mentioned this at her well visit and dr said might be worth talking to an allergist.

Could still be bad luck with viruses - idk.

Is the vomiting single instance, or is it a 24 hour bug?

More like a 6 hour bug each time.

Our DD gets some thing like that’s where it lasts anywhere from 1 to 6 hours, vomiting and nausea. DD would look super pale and end up taking a quick nap which was unusual. Turns out it was migraines. It was happening about once a month.

Yes, this is the exact thing that happens with my son too.

This exact thing happens with my son too. Our ped is not helpful and said to see a neurologist. Have you don’t anything that has helped?

Our family has had 3 stomach viruses cycle through everyone this school year, plus one of my children has celiac and the other has the migraines. So much vomit in my house. I think before this year, we maybe had 1 stomach thing once a year or every other year. This year has been brutal.

jsmith123 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsmith123 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsmith123 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8 year old didn’t throw up for about 2 years. Then she threw up one day in Oct., one day in Nov., and one day in Dec. I took her to the ped after the 3rd time. She said I could try probiotic but not to expect a miracle. She checked her stomach (nothing seemed abnormal from the exam) and her throat (no strep). And to keep a log of what she ate when she got sick. Then she threw up one day in Jan.

I did note of all things she had chickpeas the day before in Dec and Jan. I mentioned this at her well visit and dr said might be worth talking to an allergist.

Could still be bad luck with viruses - idk.

Is the vomiting single instance, or is it a 24 hour bug?

More like a 6 hour bug each time.

Our DD gets some thing like that’s where it lasts anywhere from 1 to 6 hours, vomiting and nausea. DD would look super pale and end up taking a quick nap which was unusual. Turns out it was migraines. It was happening about once a month.

Yes, this is the exact thing that happens with my son too.

This exact thing happens with my son too. Our ped is not helpful and said to see a neurologist. Have you don’t anything that has helped?

Our family has had 3 stomach viruses cycle through everyone this school year, plus one of my children has celiac and the other has the migraines. So much vomit in my house. I think before this year, we maybe had 1 stomach thing once a year or every other year. This year has been brutal.

I keep a diary to try to identify triggers, but it's hard to know if we're identifying the right ones. So far the triggers seem to be similar to the ones that give me migraines: dehydration, lack of sleep, concentrated red 40 dye. My son is also getting pretty good at knowing when one is coming on, so I give him some Ibuprofen or Tylenol right away and put him in a dark room, and sometimes that's enough to keep it from spiraling into a full episode.

When we went to the neurologist, they basically prescribed keeping a diary of the migraines, and then also prescribed some sort of B vitamin that has been proven to reduce migraines.