My daughter has been throwing up peridoically throughout the week. She doesn't seem sick and seems fine right until the throw up. I am looking for similarities but am unsure. I am wondering if all of a sudden it's dairy? After she drinks her milk or eats yogurt it has happened, we give her mostly soy milk but regular mixed with it and regular yogurt. She eats right before throwing up, and normally when she's full will turn things away, but doesn't before the throw up. I think it's tied to food. Any thoughts? She threw, twice on Saturday and oncetoday ( Thursday).
Bending with a full stomach / Acting wacky after eating
Teething
In other form of pain aside from mouth pain
Post Nasal Drip (hits gag reflex)
Stomach bug
Food intolerance
This was the order that I'd run through with my son. From long experience. Other kids would have a different order to test through. But that was his.
Have you always given her cow's milk, or did you just start this week? If it's new, it's probably the cause. If it's not new, hard to say. Cut the dairy for a week and see what happens.
Is her nose stuffy? If she has a cold the gunk could be dripping down the back of her throat and the dairy is making it worse, not from an allergy. But she might gag and throw up becaue of an increase in plegum in the throat.
Hi M.,
This could just be a tummy bug -- some can last a week or longer, and be relatively minor. I second Mommyc's advice though -- cut out all dairy for at least a week. If the vomitting continues, a trip to the doctor is in order. If not, after she has not vomitted for at least a week, give her one serving of milk or yogurt and nothing else, then see what happens. If she vomits shortly after eating, you should consider that she might have either a cow's milk allergy or a milk intolerance. If so, again, a trip to the doctor is in order for testing to get a true diagnosis. If you don't want to subject your toddler to prick testing, all three of the major blood tests available for allergy testing (Phadia, Siemens, and Hycor) have been shown to be just as sensitive and fairly equally specific, and can be ordered by your pediatrician.
While milk allergy is one of the most common allergies in children, in reality, no more than 9% of the population has a true milk allergy, but up to 25% of the population THINKS that they or their child has a milk allergy. Needless to say, a lot of people cut out dairy products unnecessarily, which, in some cases, can lead to a nutritional deficiency.
BTW, do either you or your husband have any allergies? If you don't, this lowers the likelihood that your daughter is atopic (that is, has a genetic predispostion to allergy). Conversely, if either you or your husband has any kind of allergy, this increases the possibility that your daughter may develop an allergy of some kind. Allergies can manifest at any time of life and usually require some degree of sensitization before symptoms appear, so something that was handled safely in the past could still cause allergic symptoms later.
