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Nighttime vomiting - day time is fine! - 2/17/2008 3:28:34 PM

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For almost the past week Ive had two small exorcist re-enactors in my house. They are fine all day, no fever, no loss of appetite, as active as normal, but every night after going to bed, they wake up vomitting after an hour, sometimes after 3 or 4 hours. A few days ago it was joined by some really watery bowel movements. The docs think its virul, so theres nothing they can give them, but its just so weird!! I did a search online and found a huge health forum with about 3 pages of women within the past month complaining of exactly the same syptoms with their small ones. Alot of them actually from my state. Which leads me to believe this is something rather specific. But no doctors or anyone had chimed in with an explination on the forum. Its getting king of scary. To be compleatly fine with no symptoms all day, only to wake up vomiting every night? Some of the mothers on that site were saying it had been going on for over 3 months in their houses!!! Does anyone have any ideas at all??? Anything they can think of that this might be?? Anything I can do to get rid of this?

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RE: Nighttime vomiting - day time is fine! - 2/17/2008 4:09:13 PM

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Don't know if this helps:

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Rotavirus is the most common cause of acute childhood diarrhea. Viral diarrhea is easily spread and typically bring mild-to-moderate symptoms with frequent, watery bowel movements, abdominal cramps, and low-grade fevers. Diarrhea generally lasts from 3-7 days.

How long has it been going on?

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RE: Nighttime vomiting - day time is fine! - 2/17/2008 4:21:04 PM

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There is also a cyclical vomiting syndrome that runs in some families.

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RE: Nighttime vomiting - day time is fine! - 2/17/2008 4:25:45 PM

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Possibly food poisoning? I just saw a brief clip on the news an hour ago about alot of tainted hamburger patties that, among others, were sold to school systems. My daughter was ill like that and I found out she had a hamburger at school that she said was not properly cooked. Good luck, and I hope they get better soon.

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RE: Nighttime vomiting - day time is fine! - 2/17/2008 6:32:35 PM

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I had something going on about the same 5-6 years ago. Basically I would drag myself to work somehow...come home early. Go to bed..pass out and wake up..throw up all night long. Get up shower and somehow do it all over again.

When I ended up in the ER, the first idiot I saw told me he over prescribed throat infections. Gave me some penicillin and sent me home.
The next day I was worse. Went back to the ER..I was told if I didn't get my fever under control..etc he would admit me then and there.
In the end..my throat was raw from throwing up for two week's straight. I had the deadly type of flu. That was the year it went around for the first time.
I've heard the flu has hit hard this year. Vomiting goes with it. You probably have a severe case. Hopefully you can find a doctor who can help you out.
Back during that specific time I was sick a total of 5 week's before I could get rid of it. I don't know maybe it would have been shorter if I could have rested more?
Eat crackers..they help the acid in your stomach. Saltines. Other than that..and seeing a doctor there is nothing I can say.
Good luck, I hope you get better quickly.

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RE: Nighttime vomiting - day time is fine! - 2/17/2008 6:42:36 PM

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That is really odd. I have 3 um's myself and thought I'd heard it all. Have you tried altering their dinners/after dinner snacks so that they are eating lighter in the evenings? If it is a bug that's striking when they're asleep, possibly that will help with the symptoms? I wish I could offer more in support. I hope they are much better soon!

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RE: Nighttime vomiting - day time is fine! - 2/17/2008 8:33:05 PM

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You might try having them sleep in a different part of the house. Maybe carbon monoxide checks? Anti-nausea medication in the evening? Bound2One's ideas about altering eating habits in the evening might help as well, some people don't handle heavy meals in the evening well.

I don't think it could be food poisoning, since it's happening frequently. Food poisoning generally strikes about 12-24 hours after eating the offending food, lasts 24-36 hours, and is gone. They would have to be eating the same infected food every day, meaning it'd have to be something they got from home since they wouldn't go to school on the weekends.

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RE: Nighttime vomiting - day time is fine! - 2/29/2008 5:17:30 AM

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hey. ive had this problem before and it was due to stress.

i was very young, and after my evening meal, just before id go to bed, i was sick, everyone just assumed it was something to do with eating the evening meal, and i was told to eat differnt things, eat slower, not eat at all, and none of this really worked, and i didnt realise at first, but it was actually the stress of going to bed that was making me sick, i wont go into the reasons why, because thats not relevent, but you might be sick due to stress, stress can inflame the inside of your stomach lining, and make it hard to keep things down, the only way Drs will be able to tell if its this is to put i camera into you to find out.

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RE: Nighttime vomiting - day time is fine! - 2/29/2008 5:51:20 AM

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do they go to daycare? what about school? is there anything going around these places that might have infected them? get busy cleaning all the toys, the toy boxes, sanitize the whole house. it's alot of work sometimes, especially if you come down with the bug too, but keeping it from spreading or re-infecting people is about all you can do with a virus. just have to let it run its course and treat symptomatically. get well soon to the lil ones.

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RE: Nighttime vomiting - day time is fine! - 2/29/2008 7:10:45 AM

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Viral pathologies are generally consistent from onset. Complete abatement of symptoms during the day tends to suggest the cause is something other than viral infection. (It cannot be positively ruled out; I would say it is less likely at this point).

An environmental factor would explain the daily abatement of symptoms. If possible, change their sleeping location. Move to the other end of the house if you can.

You might also try using bottled water exclusively for cooking and drinking. Many environmental toxins are spread through ground water contamination.

Has anyone else complained of any symptoms (not just nausea, but headaches, dizziness, et cetera) during the same time frame as the vomiting and with a similar daily abatement?

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RE: Nighttime vomiting - day time is fine! - 2/29/2008 12:02:07 PM

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So Ghita, have things improved any? My oldest daughter had nighttime vomiting. Turned out she had pneumonia. Sudden onset in the evening of high fever and nighttime vomiting were her only symptoms. She had it four separate times in about 6 months, then not for a number of years. She got it again last year and I took her to the ER. I told the nurse that my money was on pneumonia. She said "no way, she's not coughing or wheezing." The doctor checked her history and immediately took a chest xray. Bingo.

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RE: Nighttime vomiting - day time is fine! - 2/29/2008 3:30:05 PM

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So Ghita, have things improved any? My oldest daughter had nighttime vomiting. Turned out she had pneumonia. Sudden onset in the evening of high fever and nighttime vomiting were her only symptoms. She had it four separate times in about 6 months, then not for a number of years. She got it again last year and I took her to the ER. I told the nurse that my money was on pneumonia. She said "no way, she's not coughing or wheezing." The doctor checked her history and immediately took a chest xray. Bingo.

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i had night time vomiting for 3 months after 2 to 4 hours of being asleep, along with diarrhea...and then all of a sudden it cleared up...and then a couple of months later, i had a flare up of actual deep chest coughing...the doc said i had had viral pneumonia since the begining of the vomiting and diarrhea based on other symptoms (started last aug)...it flares up stronger on ocassion...but for me it has been really hard to get rid of it...still have flare ups...every time it gets bad, i go to the clinic and they load me up on a z-pack and give me an inhaler...not much else they can do...

if it is pnuemonia it would strange that 2 of them got it (i think...it's not contageous, i don't think)...did they both go out and play in cold wet weather?

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RE: Nighttime vomiting - day time is fine! - 2/29/2008 6:43:00 PM

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Perhaps something to do with acid production in their stomachs?

What are they puking up? If it's clear or yellowish liquid with no bits of anything that's stomach acid and/or bile, which means there's too much acid... if it's got bits of food in it hours after they've eaten and normal digestion should have taken place, it could mean their stomachs are not producing ENOUGH acid and just letting the food sit there until it's brought up.

I'm notorious for night-time nausea and vomiting stomach acid... I keep a bottle of chewable antacid tablets on my bedside table in case I need them in the middle of the night, and if it's really bad, I sleep with an extra pillow under my head, since elevation seems to help a lot with keeping the acid below the esophagus where it belongs.

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