Induce vomiting after alcohol
After excessive consumption of alcohol, which in these quantities is also a form of poisoning, most patients vomit all by themselves, often before a doctor can be contacted. Again, it may be useful to eliminate some of the alcohol by vomiting before it can be absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract. Here, however, care should be taken to ensure that the patient is awake and that the protective reflexes are still working so that no vomit is inhaled. Otherwise, a stomach tube can also help to manage this process in a controlled and safer way. The contents of the stomach are pumped out in this way, thus preventing uncontrolled vomiting with breathing difficulties.
Bulimia
Bulimia, also known as eat-break addiction, is a mental illness in the course of which cycles of uninhibited eating attacks alternate with panic attacks, during which the person affected tries to get rid of what he has just eaten as quickly as possible. Bulimia patients are often female teenagers, but men and people of all ages in general can also become ill. In the foreground of the bulimia addiction is the triggering of vomiting in order to absorb as few calories as possible and thus remain thin.
In the course of the addiction, the patients develop an increasingly better evasive behavior to avoid eating and to get rid of what they have eaten. Many patients induce vomiting several times a day by sticking their finger down their throat, taking emetics or drinking salt water. Laxatives are also used by bulimics in the hope of losing more weight through self-induced diarrhea.
This becomes a habit and eventually an addiction, so that the patients only eat to vomit immediately afterwards. If this behavior is continued over a long period of time, it can happen that the nausea is partially relieved.Often bulimics then desperately search for new methods to induce vomiting, poisoning by homemade emetics and injuries caused by using long objects to mechanically induce vomiting occur. In the course of the disease, in addition to the often dramatic loss of weight and the associated consequential damage, damage to the esophagus and mouth also occurs, caused by the constant vomiting. The treatment of bulimia is difficult because the eating-breaking behavior manifests itself as an addiction and the affected persons are only able to eat again without the urge to induce vomiting after a long therapy.