Was vomiting with blood? Help is needed immediately!

In the event that a patient experiences vomiting, it is almost impossible to control it. Doctors do this and do not recommend, because the body in such a way tries to cleanse from the harmful substances that have got into it. Fear should be those situations where vomiting, dizziness for a long time does not stop and lead to dehydration and severe deterioration of the patient.

Especially fast it is necessary to react in those situations when the patient started vomiting with blood. This is clear evidence that bleeding has begun in any part of the stomach. If vomiting is long and painful, it is possible that the blood appeared because of injury to the esophagus or throat. Immediately call an ambulance and be sure to save the vomit before the doctor arrives. It will be easier for them to establish the causes of the appearance of blood.

If the blood is bright and fresh, then it has appeared recently. Perhaps this is a slight bleeding of the upper part of the digestive system. But sometimes vomiting with blood can be more dark coffee color and even black. This is a clear sign that she was in the stomach for a long time. Most often, he talks about the presence in the body of diseases such as severe liver damage (cirrhosis), erosion of the stomach or food tract, or even the formation of ulcers. In rare cases, but they also need to be considered, this may be the first symptom of stomach cancer.

Steroid hormones, anti-inflammatory drugs and aspirin, if taken for a long time, may lead to a vomiting in the person with blood. After alcohol, the most negative effect on our stomach, there may also be severe pain in this area, a feeling of nausea, vomiting, dizziness. Alcoholism, in its chronic stage, forms scarring on the liver and leads to stagnation of blood in the digestive tract. The veins are very stretched, very high pressure is created, as a result of which the walls sooner or later burst and a blood fountain beats from the patient's mouth. Vomiting with blood after alcohol is awful both for the person himself and for the people around him. Before the arrival of an ambulance, try to lay and calm the patient, because at this moment he may experience panic and strong arousal, which threatens with even greater losses of blood. Do not give him any medication, food or water.

Vomiting with blood is always dangerous, but before you start to panic, you should make sure that the patient did not eat chocolate or other products of red-brown color shortly before the onset of vomiting. In some cases, it can be swallowed nosebleeds, blood from the lungs or after tooth extraction. Pulmonary blood is usually frothy. If the cause is not clear to the end and there is the slightest suspicion, immediately call an ambulance, even if vomiting with blood is not too strong and started at night.

It is not always the amount of blood in the vomit that clearly indicates the real amount of blood lost by the body. If, even being at rest, the patient feels weak, strong dizziness and thirst, then, its internal losses are quite large. Vertigo is the first symptom of low blood pressure.

Specialists will urgently restore the necessary volume of blood in the patient's body by infusing it with blood plasma, erythrocyte mass and physiological solutions. The necessary vasoconstrictive drugs will be used. With ulcers, antiulcer therapy. Prophylaxis of liver failure in thrombosis and cirrhosis. In emergency cases, surgical intervention is possible.

Especially to protect yourself follows patients with suspicions of peptic ulcer and cirrhosis of the liver, undergo the necessary treatment and remember that it is in these cases, there can be serious relapses.