What is this strange cold with nausea and vomiting?

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Date of publication: 04/01/2016

Vomiting is a reflex eruption of stomach contents through the mouth. Sometimes attacks of vomiting are observed against the background of a rise in temperature.

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Reasons for appearance

In 95% of cases, nausea is a symptom of the presence of a virus or infection in the gastrointestinal tract, where there is a focus of inflammation.

The causes may also be chronic diseases that periodically worsen.

Among the most common reasons are:

• stomach diseases - gastritis, ulcers, reflux, acidity disorders;
• intestinal pathologies – colitis, gastroenterocolitis, irritable bowel syndrome;
• rotavirus or intestinal infection;
• acute appendicitis;
• chronic pancreatitis;
• cholecystitis.

Also, with nausea, you may feel dizzy, which is a clear sign of impaired cerebral blood supply, which contributes to the further development of a stroke. The same symptoms are characteristic of vascular diseases, as well as thrombophlebitis, in which blood clots in the vessels block the natural blood flow, from which oxygen starvation occurs.

Fever and vomiting in adults

Nausea, vomiting and fever are the body's defense mechanisms. Vomiting is accompanied not only by gastrointestinal pathologies, but also by diseases of the nervous system, kidneys, severe stress, etc.

Allergies occur when the body cannot absorb certain substances. Sensitivity to some components can be inherited or occur due to past illnesses, stress, unfavorable climate or environmental pollution of the area.

Important! A significant decrease in immunity can lead to severe allergies, even if the person has not suffered from anything like this before.

Vomiting and fever are most often accompanied by the acute stage of an allergic reaction to medications and certain foods.

Sensitivity to the components of medications appears immediately or within 24 hours, a rash or nausea and vomiting are observed. In an acute reaction, swelling of various parts of the body and temperature suddenly occur.

Antihistamines should be taken during treatment with potent or multiple medications. If there is a sharp deterioration in health, be sure to call an ambulance. You should keep a list of drugs to which you have ever been allergic.

Among adults of the entire world population, about 2% suffer from food intolerance. Allergens are not always citrus fruits or milk. Adults are susceptible to allergies to fish, certain types of fruits and vegetables, seafood, and nuts. And the abuse of spices, additives, seasonings is undesirable. Especially mustard, sesame seeds, capsicum, cumin, paprika, cinnamon.

Important! The body is able to react to any foods or spices that are consumed in excess and constantly.

Milk contains several types of proteins, which lead to digestibility problems. The body reacts to both one and a group of proteins at the same time. Even after boiling, milk is not perceived; some proteins are not destroyed.

It is rare to experience an allergic reaction to different types of meat. Because the proteins in meat are destroyed when cooked properly. The risk group includes people with intolerance to dairy products. A reaction may occur if the meat was poorly fried or boiled, when the proteins are partially preserved. Such people should avoid eating rare meat and other similar dishes.

Some meat products also cause allergies. Various sausages and meatloaves provoke a reaction due to additives in their composition. Allergy to nuts has very serious consequences. A small particle is enough to start a reaction. Peanut grains are often found in sausages, cereals, and instant porridges.

Fish allergies affect one in 1,000 people. The most difficult to tolerate are tuna, catfish, and cod, but other types of fish are also quite dangerous.

Important! Even a non-fish dish cooked in sunflower oil, which was previously used to cook fish, can provoke a reaction.

Food intolerance to certain foods often manifests as stomach upset, rash, pain, and in severe cases, swelling and shock. In a state of shock, the temperature rises, convulsions, loss of consciousness, nausea and vomiting are possible.

The most dangerous is the first manifestation of an allergy. Since people with dangerous types of allergies, as a rule, have been aware of their problem since childhood and carefully control the composition of the products they buy. And those who encounter it for the first time mistake it for poisoning or an intestinal infection due to similar symptoms. Therefore, it is better to call a doctor rather than engage in self-diagnosis or treatment at your own peril and risk.

Important! You can’t suddenly change your diet, because the body is under stress and may react with unexpected allergies, morning sickness, gastrointestinal dysfunction, etc.

For example, all kinds of diets: kefir, pineapple, apple. We are not talking about gentle diets prescribed by a doctor in connection with an illness. You can't wake up and become a vegetarian or a raw foodist. First, you should ask your doctor about the possible health consequences. Consult on how to compensate for the lack of substances that enter the body with animal food. It is contraindicated to radically change your diet after long-term illnesses of any nature. A sharp change in food preferences or a strict diet aggravates gastrointestinal diseases: gastritis, ulcers, colitis, and so on. During the period of complications, blood appears in the stool in the form of streaks.

Food products often cause vomiting and diarrhea due to poor quality or poor combination. They provoke both banal indigestion and acute poisoning or intestinal infection. This is often accompanied by high fever. The most common pathogens are Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella. The table shows the products with which the infection most often spreads to humans.

Intestinal infections or poisoning are almost always accompanied by:

• vomiting and diarrhea;
• there is mucus or white foam in the vomit - a sign of an inflammatory process;
• the stool is loose, watery, the patient experiences cramps, rumbling and a feeling of twisting in the abdomen;
• weakness;
• cold sweat appears.

Important! After each attack of vomiting and/or going to the toilet, the patient experiences relief.

The danger of this condition is intense loss of moisture. A sharp increase in temperature can be observed in cases of acute infection, poisoning with chemicals or poisons. And also against the background of dehydration.

Symptoms

Nausea is often accompanied by other symptoms, identifying which can make a preliminary diagnosis:

1. High temperature and severe chills may indicate the presence of an infectious or viral inflammatory process in the body.
2. Dizziness and weakness, which smoothly flow into a semi-fainting state, are characteristic of cerebrovascular accidents and pathologies of the vestibular apparatus. When you feel very dizzy and have poor coordination of movements, which is reinforced by an attack of nausea, the risk of developing a stroke is high.
3. Low temperature and pale skin also indicate a stroke or heart attack, especially if there are problems with the vascular system.
4. Increased heart rate (tachycardia).
5. General weakness, lack of appetite.

Thanks to the initial assessment of the patient’s external condition, the doctor can assume the presence of a particular disease, which will facilitate diagnosis in the future and shorten its duration.

Symptoms

The nature of the clinical picture will depend on the underlying factor. A high fever and nausea will definitely indicate an infectious or inflammatory disease in the gastrointestinal tract, or, less commonly, the genitourinary system.

In case of food poisoning, the clinical picture can be characterized as follows:

• severe nausea, accompanied by repeated vomiting with impurities of bile, less often - blood;
• increasing weakness;
• increased sweating;
• pale skin;
• bouts of diarrhea;
• lack of appetite - even the smell of food can cause nausea;
• dizziness;
• low-grade fever (temperature 37 degrees) - sometimes poisoning occurs in an adult without fever.

It should be noted that the typical onset of such a clinical picture is also characteristic of some infectious diseases, so one cannot be completely sure of banal food poisoning. Such a diagnosis can only be made by a doctor after examination.

The following symptomatic complex may be characteristic of gastroenterological diseases:

• abdominal pain - the nature, frequency of manifestation and localization will depend on the specific disease;
• constipation, diarrhea, pain during bowel movements, blood in the stool;
• high temperature, causing chills and fever;
• nausea, which is not always accompanied by vomiting;
• heartburn, belching with an unpleasant odor;
• loss of appetite;
• weight loss;
• change in taste preferences;
• weakness, malaise;
• unhealthy skin color, brittle nails and hair;
• exacerbation of existing chronic diseases.

It should be noted that diarrhea and nausea are present in various gastroenterological diseases. The same applies to fever and chills. In this case, it is impossible to identify the specifics of the clinical picture, which means that it is impossible to independently compare symptoms and therapeutic measures.

When is medical help needed immediately?

In some situations, fever and nausea may indicate the presence of dangerous processes in the body that require emergency assistance. You should consult a doctor immediately when:

• the patient has difficulty breathing, shortness of breath appears;
• body temperature is unstable, can sharply decrease and increase to critical levels;
• vomiting with blood appears;
• intestinal bleeding accompanying profuse diarrhea;
• signs of dehydration;
• loss of consciousness;
• the presence of these signs in children, especially under 3 years of age.

Associated symptoms

Quite often, people who feel sick, have a temperature of 37 and feel weak also have other alarm bells:

• Change in color of stool. Healthy stool is light to dark brown in color. Yellowing and lightening of waste indicate problems with the liver and gall bladder (breakdowns, hepatitis, cirrhosis). If the stool has acquired a greenish tint, it means that we are most likely talking about bacterial diseases of the stomach.

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  Cough and sputum. The cause is probably a common acute respiratory illness. Excessive coughing sometimes accidentally activates the reflex, hence nausea. Temperature 37, weakness, runny nose are additional reasons to draw such a conclusion.

• Diarrhea. Loose stools of heterogeneous consistency indicate recent poisoning. The body removes all foreign bodies as quickly as possible along with water. Food that has managed to enter the stomach is also excreted without complete digestion.
• Pallor and dizziness. In some cases, the causes of nausea and fever are completely unclear. When they are accompanied by weakness and a state close to loss of consciousness, it means a stroke is possible. It is necessary to immediately check for other signs of impact, and if fears are confirmed, then immediately hospitalize the victim.

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Additional symptoms often shed light on the nature of the disease. However, if you have the slightest doubt, you should go to the hospital, because only doctors can prescribe the correct treatment.

Condition in pregnant women

Paradoxically, it is during pregnancy that nausea and fever are a common occurrence, occurring in every third pregnant woman. The fact is that the hormonal changes necessary to adapt the body to bearing a fetus affect all organs and systems. A manifestation such as toxicosis is observed, which is determined by increased sensitivity to smells and tastes, which can provoke an attack of nausea and vomiting. Toxicosis usually appears in the first trimester, when the body is just beginning to undergo restructuring. By the second trimester, the annoying nausea in the morning goes away, after which you can fully taste all the charm of an interesting situation.

As for the increase in temperature, during the period of gestation, it rises quite often. This is due to this: reduced immunity, necessary for the full development of the fertilized egg in the first trimester, is the cause of frequent colds and infections. Therefore, an increase in temperature as a natural process during pregnancy must be monitored by a doctor.

When nausea for a long time is accompanied by an elevated temperature, which is accompanied by copious bloody discharge with severe cramping pain in the abdomen, this is a signal to see a doctor as soon as possible. This may result in an ectopic pregnancy or miscarriage.

How to cure the disease

It is difficult to name remedies to combat nausea and fever, since they are caused by too many different diseases. Perhaps only a couple of universal methods can be identified.

Bed rest

Regardless of what exactly caused the unpleasant symptoms, it is necessary to leave the body alone. He makes it clear that he is fighting an internal enemy and will not be able to adequately perform other functions.

Mild antisymptomatic medications

If you have an urgent matter or a long journey to the doctor, then medications that temporarily muffle the body’s alarm signals will be useful. The main thing is to remember that this kind of medicine should be strictly a temporary measure. Constantly trying to reduce symptoms instead of treating their cause is a sure way to harm your own health. Then it will hurt much more. After all, when you feel sick and have a temperature of 37.5, the reasons can be much more serious than it seems at first glance.

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What to do?

If we talk about self-medication for adults, its specificity depends entirely on the root cause of the symptoms. Let's look at all the possible ways to help:

1. Nausea and fever after overeating may be a problem in the pancreas, the increased load on which does not allow it to produce the required amount of enzymes. Pancreatin or drugs that contain it will help: Smecta, Mezim, Creon.
2. Symptoms of acute respiratory infections and acute respiratory viral infections - you should take antiviral drugs, which are infested with modern pharmacies. Most of them have a complex effect, allowing you to fight viruses and microbes at the same time: Flukold, Cold-Flu, Lavomax, Anaferon, Aflubin.
3. In case of poisoning, the drugs Nufuroxazide, Furosemide, activated carbon and any other sorbents that can bind and remove waste and toxins accumulated in the intestines will help.
4. Treatment of toxicosis requires an integrated approach. It is carried out strictly in a hospital, where the most gentle treatment is selected for the pregnant woman.

If the symptoms correspond to a stroke and other diseases in which the blood supply to certain parts of the body is disrupted, self-medication is excluded. We only need highly qualified help.

Viral and bacterial infections

The appearance of incessant vomiting and diarrhea with fever in a person always gives reason to suspect infection with viruses and bacteria. The diseases are severe. Timely laboratory testing (blood, feces, urine, vomit) can identify the pathogen. Afterwards, adequate therapy is selected.

Common viral and bacterial infections:

• Rotavirus.
• Dysentery.
• Salmonellosis.
• Viral hepatitis.

Viral type hepatitis

Rotaviruses

Rotavirus (intestinal flu) is a microorganism that affects the human intestines. They are infected by the fecal-oral route. Not related to the influenza virus. The disease began to be called that because of the similarity of symptoms (temperature 37-38, runny nose, cough, headache, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness).

When infected with rotavirus, the patient's stool becomes clay-like and acquires a light, grayish-yellow hue. An admixture of blood appears. In a child, the disease is more severe than in an adult. If your baby is feeling very sick or vomiting, take action. The disease is acute at the first infection. The virus causes active production of antibodies, and persistent immunity develops.

There are no specific medications. Treatment is symptomatic. It is recommended to drink plenty of fluids, activated carbon, and antipyretics. Be careful when communicating with sick people. They are contagious and must be isolated.

Dysentery

The cause of the disease is the entry of bacteria of the genus Shigella into the intestines. This bacterium causes severe damage, mainly to the large intestine. The source of infection can be people, water, food. Symptoms of infection appear 2-7 days after contact with an infected object.

The disease can begin in different ways. Headaches, lethargy, and fever are quickly replaced by abdominal pain. Severe diarrhea appears, the temperature rises to 39. The skin turns pale, the tongue becomes brown. The heart rate increases and blood pressure decreases.

The number of bowel movements is from 20 to 50 times a day. Gradually, the stool turns into a mixture of mucus, blood and pus. The duration of the disease is 3-4 weeks. Complications – peritonitis and paraproctitis.

Dysentery disease

Treatment depends on the severity. Mild form - treatment table No. 4, nitrofurans, hydroxyquinolines. For moderate and severe forms, a combination of antibiotics is selected. Drugs are prescribed taking into account the sensitivity of the strain.

Salmonellosis

The intestinal infection is caused by the bacterium Salmonella. Occurs upon contact with a sick person, animal or food. The development is acute (chills, fever up to 41 degrees with nausea, vomiting, headaches).

• A specific symptom is frequent, watery bowel movements. The stool is green, with bile, and lasts 8-10 days.
• Joint pain, enlargement of the liver and spleen are often observed.

The patient is placed in the infectious diseases department. The diagnosis is made after laboratory tests. Treatment is carried out using penicillin derivatives, fluoroquinolones, and specific bacteriophages. Antibiotics are not prescribed if there is no blood in the stool.

The patient is prescribed plenty of fluids, solutions to restore electrolyte balance, diet, medications to remove toxins, and restore intestinal microflora.

Possible complications:

• peritonitis;
• toxic shock;
• polyarthritis;
• renal failure.

Salmonellosis disease

Viral hepatitis

Acute viral liver disease. The incubation period is from 7 days to 6 months, depending on the strain (A, B, C, D, E, F, G). You can become infected by dirty water, contaminated food, syringes, or unprotected sex.

The disease begins with fever, nausea, and pain in the epigastric region. Then aches and headaches follow. Appetite is reduced. Diarrhea and flatulence begin. Severe skin itching appears.

Against this background, there is a significant increase in the size of the liver and spleen. A man vomits bile. Urine darkens, feces become discolored. Signs of general intoxication are increasing. After the skin and sclera of the eyes turn yellow, some relief occurs.

Children experience hepatitis differently. If a child has always had low body resistance, then a mild form of the disease will be severe.

No treatment is required for hepatitis A infection. Prescribe a diet, bed rest, plenty of fluids, antispasmodics (no-spa, papaverine), choleretic agents. If necessary, detoxification drugs are added (intravenously).

Infection with other types of hepatitis is more severe. In addition to basic therapy, antiviral treatment with interferons is used. A complete cure is almost impossible. Correct therapy achieves long-term remissions. A long ban on alcohol is introduced.

Complications:

• chronic gallbladder diseases;
• necrosis;
• cirrhosis;
• cancer.

Folk remedies

Alternative medicine recipes are appropriate only when it comes to intestinal infections and stomach diseases. They are allowed to be used only after consultation with a doctor. The most popular of them are the following:

1. Chamomile decoction (chamomile tea) – cleanses the stomach and intestinal mucosa from pathogenic bacteria, normalizing digestion.
2. A decoction of St. John's wort and sage helps to cope with nausea caused by dysfunction of the pancreas.
3. Using a dehydration solution - add 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt and half a teaspoon of soda to 1 liter of boiled water. The solution helps avoid dehydration (especially when vomiting), and also normalizes digestion.

Symptoms in pregnant women, the elderly and children

In elderly patients, one or more chronic diseases can often be detected, so chronic pancreatitis and cholecystitis are the first things to check the patient for.

Children can be roughly classified by age. Up to one year: diarrhea sometimes occurs due to food, the temperature may rise slightly as a nonspecific protective reaction. From a year to 3 years: it is worth paying increased attention to what the sick patient ate - poisoning often occurs due to the desire of children to try everything in the world.

From 3 to 12 years: in general, the same criteria apply as for adults; more detailed diagnostics should be entrusted to a doctor.

Danger of condition

It is important not to let the symptoms go unnoticed, as they can develop into more serious manifestations that will definitely not go away without leaving a trace on the body. If nausea, weakness and high fever persist for more than a day, then you need the help of a doctor, and in some cases even hospitalization. Lack of timely treatment can lead to a lot of negative consequences for the body.

Thus, such manifestations are common to many diseases, which cannot be recognized only by external signs. The earlier treatment is started, the greater the chances of a speedy recovery. In childhood, it is better not to self-medicate at all, giving preference to doctors.

Unusual symptoms of vomiting with fever

Flatulence, insomnia, pallor, burning sensation, heartburn, nervous tension in a child or in an adult without diarrhea - almost all gastrointestinal diseases have such signs, if you do not take into account one feature.
Symptoms occur or become noticeably worse when lying down after eating. This disease is called atony or a more severe form of gastric hypotension. Weakening of the stomach muscles, as a result of which food is retained for a long time and is poorly digested. Fermentation or rotting processes may also occur, and as a result, the lining of the stomach is damaged.

Other signs:

• heaviness in the stomach;
• bad breath, reminiscent of a rotten egg;
• pain in the upper half of the stomach, protrusion of this area.

Due to inflammatory processes, a person’s temperature rises and vomiting occurs.

Important! For hypotension and atony, bed rest is contraindicated. The patient is recommended to walk for a long time, and moderate physical activity is also beneficial.

Meningitis. Infectious lesion of the brain or spinal cord. In most cases, attacks of vomiting are accompanied by short-term minor relief. Unreasonable nausea and vomiting combined with dizziness, headache, numbness of the neck and high fever. Children and men are most susceptible to the disease. It develops when affected by fungi, bacteria, protozoan microorganisms and viruses and as a complication of serious diseases.

Kidney failure. A person experiences lower back pain, headaches, nausea, vomiting, fever, and gets tired quickly. In a neglected state, dryness of the tongue and skin, tremors of the limbs appear, a small amount of urine is released, weight and muscle tone are lost. The disease can develop rapidly or occur as a chronic disease. Self-medication is extremely dangerous.

Appendicitis. A characteristic feature of the disease is suddenness and severe pain in the navel or in the area under the stomach. Pain in the abdominal area prevents touching. Sometimes your stomach hurts even more if you put your hands along your body. There is nausea, vomiting, and the temperature does not always rise. The patient requires immediate hospitalization.