In the case when the patient has vomiting, it is almost impossible to control it. Doctors do not recommend this, as the body in this way tries to clear itself of harmful substances that have got into it. Fear should be those situations where vomiting, dizziness does not stop for a long time and lead to dehydration and severe deterioration of the patient's condition.
Particularly quick to respond in situations where the patient has begun 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 due to an injury to the esophagus or throat. Call an ambulance immediately and be sure to save vomit until your doctor arrives. It will be easier to determine 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 digestive system. But sometimes blood vomiting can be a darker coffee color and even black. This is a clear sign that she was in the stomach for a rather long time. Most often, he talks about the presence in the body of diseases such as serious liver damage (cirrhosis), erosion of the stomach or digestive tract, or even the formation of an ulcer. 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, can lead to a person vomiting blood. After alcohol, which most negatively affects our stomach, severe pain in this area, a feeling of nausea, vomiting, and dizziness can also occur. Alcoholism, in its chronic stage, forms scars on the liver and leads to stagnation of blood in the digestive tract. The veins are greatly stretched, a very high pressure is created, as a result of which the walls rupture sooner or later and a fountain of blood beats from the patient’s mouth. Vomiting of blood after alcohol is terrible both for the person himself and for those around him. Before the ambulance arrives, try to lay down and reassure the patient, because at this moment he may experience panic and intense excitement, which threatens even greater blood loss. In no case 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 consume chocolate or other products of red-brown color shortly before the appearance of vomiting. In some cases, it may be swallowed nosebleeds, blood from the lungs, or after tooth extraction. Pulmonary blood is usually foamy. If the reason is not completely clear and there is the slightest suspicion, immediately call an ambulance, even if the vomiting with blood is not too strong and began at night.
Not always the amount of blood in the vomit clearly indicates the real amount of blood lost by the body. If, even at rest, the patient feels weakness, severe dizziness and thirst, then its internal losses are quite large. Dizziness is the first symptom of low blood pressure.
Specialists will urgently restore the necessary volume of blood in the patient's body by infusing him with blood plasma, red blood cells and physiological solutions. The necessary vasoconstrictor drugs will be used. With an ulcer - antiulcer therapy. The prevention of liver failure with thrombosis and cirrhosis. In emergency cases, surgical intervention is possible.
Patients with suspected gastric ulcer and cirrhosis should be especially cautious, undergo the necessary treatment and remember that it is in these cases that serious relapses can occur.