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Spitting up
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Spitting up is the gentle sloshing of stomach contents up and out of the mouth in babies, sometimes accompanied by a burp.
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Spitting up and dribbling milk with burps or after feedings is fairly common in newborns. This is because the sphincter muscle between the stomach and the esophagus (the tube from the mouth to stomach) is weak and immature.
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Spitting up, the gentle sloshing of stomach contents up and out of the mouth, sometimes with a burp, is an entirely different process. Some spitting up is normal for babies, and usually gets gradually better over time.
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Spitting up blood from the lungs or sputum stained with blood.
Immunocompromised
A state in which the immune system is suppressed or not functioning properly.
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SPITTING UP
It often seems that as soon as you've finished feeding your baby, everything you worked so hard to get down comes right back up -all over your shirt. Spitting up is as endemic to newborns as the soft spot on the top of their heads.
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HemoptysisSpitting up blood from the lungs or sputum stained with blood.
ImmunocompromisedA state in which the immune system is suppressed or not functioning properly.
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bones; change in size, shape, or color of an existing mole; change in skin color; chest tightness or heaviness; chest pain; chills; clear or bloody discharge from nipple; cold hands and feet; confusion; constipation; cough; coughing or spitting up ...
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Symptoms include cough and spitting up blood, and can sometimes be confused with asthma symptoms like wheezing, resulting in delayed diagnosis. Primary treatment is surgery to remove the tumor and lymph nodes and vessels where cancer may spread.
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Signs may include a long-term cough, coughing or spitting up blood, abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever, weight loss, night sweats, and fatigue. Tuberculosis, or TB, is common once AIDS has set in.
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Breast milk is easy for babies to digest, so there is less spitting up.
Breast milk is rich in antibodies. They help protect the baby from intestinal, ear, urinary, and lower respiratory tract infections, pneumonia, and sudden infant death syndrome.
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Blood in urine or red or tarry stools
Bleeding from the nose or gums or spitting up blood
New, excessive, or prolonged vaginal bleeding
Frequent, severe bruising or tiny red or purple spots on the skin ...
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Instead, the early signs of pyloric stenosis may resemble normal (but unusually frequent) infantile burping and spitting up, with the stomach contents flowing out the nose as well as the mouth.
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There is bleeding with easy bruising, blood spots in the skin (petechiae), spitting up blood (hematemesis), blood in the stool (melena), bleeding gums and nosebleeds (epistaxis). Pneumonia and heart inflammation (myocarditis) may be present.
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shortness of breath (especially with physical effort) and respiratory distress in severe cases (a potentially life- threatening condition in which the lungs become stiff)
chest pain and spitting up blood, mucus, ...
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