When you have a cyclic vomiting syndrome it is very important to know what triggers your attack in order to avoid them as much as possible. Based on my experience as mother of a son who suffers from cyclic vomiting syndrome for 10 years now, the following are the triggers

Food: chocolate

Activities: too much of watching tv or computers games, school activities, school exams

Sickness also triggers cvs like cough and cold, asthma, headache, tonsilities, fever, constipation

While some of the triggers like food and watching tv can be avoided, others are imposible to avoid like school exam. Several of my son’s hospitalization was during exam days.

July 7, 2017 .Its midnight, my son in the hospital bed woke up complaining of stomach ache. Oh no.. he may vomit again once the stomach ache persist. His cyclic vomiting syndrome may recur. I told the nurse and the doctor prescribed Relestal 10mg/5ml for stomach ache. Thanks God it works.

Metoclopramide is a medicine used to abort vomiting. For the 29th time we are here at Mother Seton Hospital for the confinement of my 10 year old son due to cyclic vomiting syndrome (cvs). He was given metoclopramide half vial, injected in the iv to abort vomiting. There’s a question running in my mind today., why would the doctors not prescribe metoclopramide tablet to my son which I can give at home to abort vomiting . Can I not give the tablet at the onset of vomiting so that vomiting will stop and going to the hospital can be avoided?Is this drugs dangerous that doctors are hesitant in prescribing it outside the hospital.

Is there any alternative way that can prevent vomiting. We tried massage theraphy, magnet theraphy, color theraphy, charcoal drink. Sometimes these theraphies helps, other times it did not, so we end up in the hospital.

These coming days I’ll try to list down all the food intake and all the activities done of my son to rule out the real trigger. The saying prevention is better than cure is indeed true.

My son, Ric is a normal child, he will be in grade 6 this june and he is doing well in school in fact he had been promoted once , (2 grade level in one year ) Everything is okay with him except that he has been hospitalized 28 times as of this writing due to cyclic vomiting syndrome (cvs)and he is only 10 years old.

His sickness started at age 2 . When he was 6 years old, his pediatrician adviced us to bring him to a pedia gastro to check the cause of his vomiting which has an average of 3x hospitalization in a year and each confinement lasted for 1 day to 1 week..

Last 2013 we brought our son to the Philippine Childrens Medical Center in Quezon City and consulted Dra Nolasco, pedia gastro. We were advised to have a barrium enema at NKTI ,to check the anatomy of his intestine and rule out GERD . Thanks God it was clear..Ric has no acid reflux and his small intistine is okay.

The pedia gastro advise us then , to consult a neurologist. There was a findings called abdominal epilipsy. The EEG shows a single epiliptrum discharge , so Dr. Agrava of PCMC prescribed valporic acid for 2 years. After 2 annual EEG which are both clear, we were advised to stop the meds.

Simultaneous with the consultation with the pedia gastro, pedia neuro, we also consulted the pedia endocrinologist to clear out the growth hormones. And the result was okay.

This summer , we also consulted a psychologist to rule out if his vomiting is psychological in nature (stress related) because some of his confinement were during exam days in school. The test is ongoing. We will be back for the last test when the doctor is available.

As of this writing we are in the hospital . This is his 28th confinement . The trigger is tonsilites. Ric vomited 10x so we rush him to the hospital to prevent dehydration.

I hope we can find the preventive measure in vomiting, so that confinement will be avoided. The doctor would not prescribe meds to abort vomiting. may be its not safe to do so.

I’ll be writing more on Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome base on my experience as a mother of a patient, to promote awareness of this rare kind of disease. His doctor told us this illness can be outgrown, when? we do not know. This time the only thing we can do is avoid the triggers as much as we can. And prayers that all is well .