What to do?

There is not much you can do yourself to avoid vomiting after the procedure. If you should suffer from it, it is important to contact the nursing or medical staff early on. It is very important that they initiate therapy quickly to improve or stop the vomiting.

It is advisable to remain calm and try to calm down and relax. In any case, food and drink are usually not allowed directly after an operation. In case of nausea and vomiting, however, you should refrain from doing so on your own in order not to induce further nausea and to reduce the risk of aspiration.

Apart from that, there is unfortunately nothing that you can do yourself against vomiting. Homeopathic remedies have been proven to have neither a benefit nor an advantage in the treatment of vomiting after anaesthesia. It is strongly discouraged to take any homeopathic remedies after surgery.

Some of these remedies contain alcohol or herbal ingredients that can only make the vomiting worse. In addition, especially in hospitals, it is absolutely necessary to refrain from taking any medication on your own, unless it has been agreed with the treating physicians, because for a good therapy success it must always be known what the patient is taking. Substances whose exact ingredients are not known are particularly problematic.

Should complications, allergies or other problems arise, doctors and nursing staff cannot react adequately. Especially after an anaesthetic, however, the body should be spared and any complications should be avoided. Children are also affected by vomiting after an anaesthetic.

However, children before the age of 3 are rarely affected. After the 3rd year of life, however, the frequency increases so that it reaches its peak between the 6th and 10th year of life. The problem with children and infants is that the same risk factors as for adults cannot be assumed in order to estimate the risk of vomiting after surgery.

A simplified system has been developed to estimate the risk approximately. According to this, children after the age of 3 are more likely to be affected by vomiting after anesthesia. Furthermore, children who themselves or their 1st-degree relatives have already suffered from motion sickness once before have a higher risk of vomiting after anesthesia.

There are two other risk factors that apply to children. One is a procedure that takes longer than 30 minutes and the other is strabismus surgery. However, it is not clear why this is so. The same therapeutic and preventive measures apply to children as to adults. However, the dosage of the drugs used may vary.In contrast to adults, the drugs are not given according to a fixed dosage scheme, but are specially adapted to the child’s body weight.