Patient's question:
Vomits after eating, has fever symptoms, and slightly swollen eyes. The neutrophil percentage is 0.724, lymphocyte percentage is 0.198, calcium is 2.33, and carbon dioxide combining power is 19.4. What could be the issue?Doctor's answer:
Hello, vomiting refers to the complex reflex action through which gastric contents or partial small intestinal contents are refluxed from the esophagus to the oral cavity. It is a common digestive symptom in children. Modern medicine that vomiting can be caused by various diseases such as gastrointestinal diseases, fever, intracranial infections, medications, and food poisoning. Traditional Chinese Medicine that external pathogens such as wind-heat invasions can affect the stomach. Internal injuries from diet, stomach deficiency accompanied by heat, stomach Yang deficiency, and spleen-stomach deficiency with cold can lead to stomach depletion, stomach qi inversion, and vomiting. Severe vomiting often results in excessive fluid loss, qi and yin deficiency. Long-term and recurrent vomiting can lead to consequences such as spleen-stomach weakness and insufficient qi and blood. Common symptoms include postprandial vomiting, viscous acid or thin, nausea, belching, abdominal distension, depression, pale or flushed complexion, and unwillingness to eat.