7 year vomiting in school every day

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I'm a bit concerned as schools have gone back in Scotland for two weeks and since last week my daughter has ''vomitted' every day and been sent home. She is fine at home and at weekends.

I'm taking her to the gp for assessment but I'm worried it might be psychosomatic?

I'm worried about my job as the school keep sending her home. I'm worried about her as well. If it's physical or mental neither are good.

She is on a waiting list for asd (not 100% sure but I just want to have it considered). Also she had said she has difficulty with friendships.

She is vomiting up food around 10 minutes after eating, in the playground at school.

Thanks

Just a few questions because I'm not sure:

• does she have any other symptoms?
• has anyone in the school seen her vomiting/ know what could be potentially triggering it?
• what has she said about the situation?

It's not great for either of you to let it continue but I think you need to work with the teachers to see if there is anything setting her off and how they can support her to avoid it

Thank you for replying. I think she generally doesn't like school all that much and would prefer to be at home. She seems totally fine otherwise. Jumping around and playing.

I think the fact that she's fine at home and at weekends suggests it is school related. It sounds like she is struggling and she knows that if she is sick she gets sent home.

Could be anxiety-related, if there’s something about school making her anxious.

Does school make her anxious?

I absolutely hated primary school and would get myself so worked up about it that I'd end up vomiting, only it happened whilst at school rather than at school. I would question her first to find out if she's got some anxiety going on over school.

Sounds like acute anxiety.

An assessment, diagnosis and some medication would help with this problem. I don't know how long waiting lists are.

Has she actually been seen vomiting by staff?

That's rough for her. Could this be her way of avoiding having to be in the playground?

Agree with all the other posters re anxiety (I myself was sick every Sunday night at her age for about a year which was anxiety related) but just another thought- is she bolting down her lunch really quickly and then running around outside immediately afterwards? I've had experience of children trying to eat everything in front of them in about 20 seconds flat so they can run about like loons playing football and it all coming back up rather swiftly!

Is she on any regular medication? My daughter was vomiting every morning for over a year. People kept saying it was anxiety but she is not an anxious child. Turned out it was a reaction to some medication she was on. It wasn’t a “normal” side effect of the medication so it wasn’t picked up.

I was thinking the same. Could there be an issue with bullying OP?

Thank you these are all great questions for to consider. In terms of anxiety, I've asked her and she said I'm being silly because she's been at the school for 3 years now so why should she be anxious.

Re medication, she's only on a preventer inhaler. I'll check if that can cause vomiting.

Alternatively? I'm thinking that maybe she's realised that this is a way to get sent home sick???

She says no bullying. The only thing she's reported is not having that strong friendships.

I might ask if I can come in one day and observe her. After the gp checks her over.