Projectile vomiting is when your body expels vomit with more force than usual. It's one of your body's reactions to something it recognizes as toxic, but there are medical conditions that can cause projectile vomiting as well.
Projectile vomiting is when you vomit so forcefully that the vomit lands several feet away from you. It is difficult to control. Projectile vomiting in adults is caused by the same types of illnesses that cause nausea and less intense vomiting. These include stomach viruses and food poisoning.
Types of Vomiting
Dry Heaves: Dry heaves are the type of vomit where the feeling is present, but nothing comes out. It is termed as non-productive vomit. Blood-Streaked Vomit: Blood streaked vomiting causes a cut in the esophagus or stomach. Here, vomit comes out filled with blood, having red or dark-brown colour.
Your esophagus is the tube that carries food from your throat to your stomach. It plays a vital role in digestion. Sometimes, violent coughing or vomiting can tear the tissue of your lower esophagus and it can start to bleed. The condition is called a Mallory-Weiss tear.
Although vomiting is a natural response to food poisoning, making yourself throw up can make your symptoms worse and lead to dehydration or more severe illnesses.
Self-induced vomiting is a way of attempting to avoid digesting calories after eating. Vomiting can very rapidly become a habit and leads to a decreased tolerance of food inside the stomach. As seen in the diagram below, regular induced vomiting can have some serious effects on the stomach and gullet.
Functional vomiting refers to frequent episodes of recurrent vomiting that is not self-induced nor medication induced, and occurs in the absence of eating disorders, major psychiatric diseases, abnormalities in the gut or central nervous system, or metabolic diseases that can explain the symptom.
The fat molecule made from butyric acid makes up 3-4% of butter. It's generally found in dairy products, and is a product of anaerobic fermentation. Hence the links to butter and parmesan cheese. And.. as well known, butyric acid is what gives vomit that distinctive, smell-it-a-mile-off, odor.
Vomiting is the forceful throwing up of stomach contents through the mouth. Spitting up (most commonly seen in infants under one year of age) is the easy flow of stomach contents out of the mouth, frequently with a burp.
Forceful retching or vomiting produces typical subepithelial hemorrhages in the fundus and proximal body of the stomach. This is due to “knuckling” or trapping of the proximal stomach into the distal esophagus, resulting in vascular congestion, and is also known as prolapse gastropathy.
The causes of projectile vomiting in adults and infants are often different, and treatment varies depending on why it occurs. Vomiting is classed as projectile if it is very sudden, and the vomit exits the body with some force. It may travel a few feet from the body.
Speak to your GP if: you've been vomiting repeatedly for more than a day or two. you're unable to keep down any fluids because you're vomiting repeatedly. you have signs of severe dehydration, such as confusion, a rapid heartbeat, sunken eyes and passing little or no urine.
Psychogenic vomiting is a syndrome in which there is recurrent vomiting, without any organic pathology or as “functional vomiting” as a result of psychological mechanism.
Rumination syndrome is a condition in which people repeatedly and unintentionally spit up (regurgitate) undigested or partially digested food from the stomach, rechew it, and then either reswallow it or spit it out. Because the food hasn't yet been digested, it reportedly tastes normal and isn't acidic, as vomit is.
Gastroparesis is a condition in which the stomach muscles do not work properly. As a result, food empties from the stomach very slowly, or not at all. Children with this disorder may feel full all the time, be very nauseous, have pain, or vomit undigested food left in the stomach.
Vomiting that is very forceful or continues for a very long time may cause a tear in the small blood vessels of the throat. This may produce streaks of blood in the vomit. Swollen veins in the walls of the lower part of the esophagus, and sometimes the stomach, may begin to bleed.
An emetic is a medicine or potion that makes you vomit, which you might be given if you've taken poison or some other harmful substance.
An activity related to but clearly distinct from vomiting is regurgitation, which is the passive expulsion of ingested material out of the mouth - this often occurs even before the ingesta has reached the stomach and is usually a result of esophageal disease.
Third, the vomiting process releases chemicals in your body to make you feel better. So that “I feel better” feeling after throwing up is not just your imagination — it's your biology working.
Do not eat or drink anything for several hours after vomiting. Sip small amounts of water or suck ice chips every 15 minutes for 3-4 hours. Next, sip clear liquids every 15 minutes for 3-4 hours. Examples include water, sports drinks, flat soda, clear broth, gelatin, flavored ice, popsicles or apple juice.
Vomiting often causes abdominal pain as stomach acids travel backward through the digestive tract, irritating tissues along the way. The physical act of vomiting also may cause abdominal muscles to become sore. A wide range of factors can trigger vomiting, ranging from an intestinal blockage to alcohol poisoning.