Projectile vomit in 8 mth old baby, anything to worry about?

[Alishanty]

I wonder if anyone can give me some advice. My 8 mth old dd has always been quite a sicky baby but I am starting to get a bit concerned as she still quite regularly vomits after milk or food, seems like quite alot and it is projectile. Sometimes she won't do it for days but she had 2 episodes of it yesterday and one this morning. Otherwise she seems fine in herself and last time she was weighed, her weight had dropped off the centile line slightly but she was still gaining and the hv wasn't worried, although she said if it continues to go to the gp. I'm not sure what to feed her in terms of solids as I am worried about overfeeding her and making her sick. She often readily takes more mouthfuls and will accept lumps but I'm not sure that she can handle it. Today I just gave her rusk and banana but she threw up the banana after a breastfeed. My mum thinks I should just keep her on bm for a bit but she is sick after that sometimes and obviously she will need more solids at some point. Has anyone any experience of this? thanks.

Go to the DR, DS used to throw up afte his bottles (before we weaned) but wasn't dropping of the centiles, HV wasn't bothered concerened, turned out he was intolerant to cows milk protein.

Hi Alishanty!

My 6 month old DS suffers badly with reflux, and generally vomits up his milk and his solids on a day to day basis... but has been thriving on the 50th centile.

But - he has picked up this nasty viral bug that is doing the rounds from one of his playmates, and by the sounds of things (unless I'm not reading your post correctly) - your LO sounds like she also has it? Has she had loose stools at all?

DS started with the loose stools this morning and has done 3 projectile vomits tonight. I also noticed that during the day today his reflux was getting worse. He has also filled his nappy (and up his back) 4 times this afternoon and evening.

Let me know the outcome on your DD. All the best!

xxx

and has reflux.

Projectile vomiting seems to be a classic symptom of reflux.

I'm not sure that she is ill as she hasn't had loose stools atall. She had one poo this morning and it was normal. If it carries on I will take he to the dr but by the sounds of it she does have reflux.