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Vomiting in neonateCauses & diagnosis

Vomiting is significant when it is :-Bile stained.

Blood stained (fresh, coffee-ground, flecked with altered blood).

Projectile.

Persistent.

Associated with weight loss, failure to grow.

Most of the vomiting in neonate is due to non surgical conditions.

Bile stained vomiting in neonate is surgical until prove otherwise.

Causes :-Septisaemia

Meningitis

Urinary tract infection

GastroenteritisGERDPyloric stenosisObstructed inguinal hernia

Mid-gut volvulus

intestinal atresia

hirschsprung's

disease

meconium ileus

NEC

Overfeeding

congenital adrenal hyperplasia

septisaemia : lethargic, poor feeding, hypothermia, cyanosis, risk factors.

Meningitis : convulsion, fever, crying , irritability.

UTI : fever, crying, bad odor urine.

Gastroenteritis : fever, diarrhea, common in bottled fed babies.GERD : regurgitation more than vomiting, & if so neither projectile nor bile stained, loss of weight, failure to thrive, the problem become less severe as the infant get older, when esophagitis occur there will be bright red blood in the vomiting, or coffee- ground or anaemia.it has risk of aspiration pneumonia.Investigations : contrast esophagogram, 24- hr PH monitoring, endoscope

Pyloric stenosis : The most common surgical cause of vomiting in infant, M : F = 4 : 1, Non bile stained vomiting, projectile, eager to feed following vomiting, on examination; visible gastric peristalsis , palpable olive mass which confirm the diagnosis (felt in the epigastrium or just to the right of the rectus

abdominus

musle.Failure to palpate the mass :-Be patient, re-examine when he is quite or asleep.Be gentleFlex the hip jointExamine during feeding & while he is cached by his mother

Pass NG tube to empty the stomach

Differential diagnosis of the mass:-Pole of right kidney

Caudate lobe of the liver

Tip of NG tube

Body of vertebraeVisible gastric peristalsis & projectile vomiting are supportive but not by themselves diagnostic.Ultrasound : length of pyloric canal & thickness if > 16 mm, 4mm.Barium meal : string sign (long narrow pyloric canal)

Shoulder sign (impression of pylorus into the duodenal mucosa)

Double crack sign (folding of pyloric mucosa)

Obstructed inguinal hernia :-Nearly all inguinal hernia in infant is (indirect).

M:F = 8:1 .

60 % in the right side, 25% in the left side, 15 % bilateral.

The most common condition requiring surgery in childhood.Incidence 1-2 per 100 live births male.30% firstly presented with strangulated hernia.Presentation of inguinal hernia : history of intermittent swelling overlying external inguinal ring painless or with occasional discomfort, bulge on crying or straining.Silk glove sign : contiguous layer of peritoneum of empty sac.

Thickened spermatic cord in

comparism

to the other side.

Presentation of obstructed inguinal hernia : crying , vomiting, abdominal distention, irreducible swelling in the groin which is tens & tender. With the delay in the diagnosis there will be induration overlying the lump, redness, hotness which are signs of peritonitis & bowel ischemia.

Differential diagnosis :-Encysted hydrocele of the cord

Undescended testis (empty scrotal sac on the affected side)

Torsion of the testis

Lymphadenitis or local inguinal abscess.

Volvulus neonatorum :-

In

Malrotation

of midgut there is narrow mesentery of midgut & labile to twist around the axis of superior mesenteric artery.It is emergency condition requiring urgent intervention. Presentation : healthy full term baby who is well for the first few days of life the suddenly developing bile stained vomiting then abdominal distention, blood per rectum, peritonitis, septisaemia.Diagnosis : upper GIT contrast study (barium meal & follow through) we see the abnormal position of DJ junction(to the right side of midline &

antero

-inferior more than usual position).

Intestinal atresia :-Pyloric atresia

Duodenal atresia

Jejunoileal

atresiaColonic atresiaAntenatal ultrasound show polyhydramniosDown syndrome is common associated anomalySymptoms : vomiting , abdominal distention , constipation.

Diagnosis :

Plain x-ray : single bubble

Double bubble

Air fluid levels

Gasless lower abdomen

Contrast study (barium enema) :

microcolon

.

Hirschsprung's disease :-Delayed or non passing meconium

Abdominal distention

Bile stained vomiting

Rectal examination with probe : explosive decompression of meconium & fecesInvestigations :Contrast enema : narrow, transitional ,& dilated segments.Rectal biopsy : absent ganglion cells, hypertrophic nerve fibers, increase staining with cholin esterase.

Electromanometry

: absent

rectosphincteric

reflex.

NEC(necrotizing enterocolitis) :-

95% occur in pre mature.

Risk factors :

Presentation : lethargic, poor feeding, abdominal distention, bile stained vomiting , blood per rectum, then progress to peritonitis, edematous redness of the anterior abdominal wall, palpable mass of intra abdominal abscess.Diagnosis :Plain x- ray : air fluid levels Pneumatosis intestinalis Portal venous gas

Air under diaphragm

Meconium ileus :-15% 0f cystic fibrosis firstly presented with meconium ileus.

Genetic mutation

Δ

F508 in the cell membrane protein CFTR.Cystic fibrosis causes changes in the composition of meconium (thicker, sticky,& tenacious).Presentation : bile stained vomiting, abdominal distention, failure to pass meconium, loops of distended gut palpable as they filled with meconium rather than gaseous distention.Rectal examination : no normal meconium, there is pellets of mucus.Plain x-ray : no air fluid level, ground glass appearance, soap bubble appearance.Contrast study : microcolon with pellets in the terminal ileum.

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia :-21- hydroxylase deficiency will cause block in the synthesis of cortisol & aldosterone & 17-hydroxyprogesterone shift to synthesis of androgen.

Increase stimulation of ACTH : adrenal hyperplasia

Decrease cortisol : hypoglycemia

Decrease aldosterone : salt losing metabolic disturbance (vomiting) which life threatening situation.Increase androgen : virilization of female body & ambiguous genitalia.

Overfeeding :-In bottle fed babies

Healthy ( no weight loss)

Improper feeding habits

. Dr.Ali E. Joda

M.B.Ch.B

– F.I.C.M.S.