18 Month Old Vomiting

Lots of good advice here, especially reflux and maybe GERD could be looked into as well. Perhaps some trouble with her esophagus or upper stomach? Ulcers? Could also be teeth coming in (gums bulging or red?), but keep her comfortable, with very light exercise. For doctor, keep notes of what/when she's vomitting and what she isn't. Maybe flavor or food (allergy?) or consistency?

Keep her on the crackers/rice/bananas/applesauce like with other vomiting, and don't feed until 1 hr after vomit of anything, including fluids. Then, little every 15 min with 15 min between to watch. Continue to give her formula, lots of nutrition there and if she can stomach a multivitamin, that might help as well.

Lots of luck and let us know how it goes:)

Throwing up may be a sign of food allergies.

This happened to one of my children and it went on for a week. It was strep throat. It was the weirdest thing. I personally have never seen someone react that way with strep, but this is what my daughter did. It actually took us going to the doctor twice for the doc to find it because the first time, she didn't look at her throat thoroughly enough. She used a tongue depresser the 2nd time and that was what it was. I hope they find out why with yours.

Mother of 4

It definatley sounds like you could use a CDSA (stool analysis) complete with all the parasite info. Keep her on BRAT (Banannas, rice, applesause, toast). I would try to use gluten free toast if you can. I would get her off all the milk - especially the pediasure - for now. If you have access to rice milk, try a tblsp at a time to see if she can tolerate. If so, you can add cod liver oil to the rice milk for fat since weight is a concern. Cod liver oil also high in Vit A, which if she is fighting viral, that will be very helpful.
If you want to do the test, you can order it from www.greatplainslaboratory.com. Let me know if your doctor is not favorable towards it, I can recommend a physican that can interpret it via phone for you. She is amazing and is located in Santa Monica, CA. J

Could be acid reflux or food allergies. My daughter did the same thing around the same age and we discovered she had gotten her molars shortly thereafter.

When I was about that age I was throwing up a lot. My mother said the doctor was on the verge of putting me in the hospital. The doctor told my mother to feed me what I liked. I liked chicken and chocolate milk. Come to find out I was allergic to chicken and chocolate (and about 300 other things) hence the throwing up. You might want to look into allergies.

Have you considered food allergies? You might have her tested- the most common culprits are eggs, milk, wheat (gluten) soy, peanut....I'm so sorry your going thru this Iknow how it is to have low weight child...Good luck

could it be acid reflux?