What causes white chunky vomit in infants?
Patient: Hello I have a 15 and a half month baby girl. We are slowly taking away her bottle and she only drinks one at night and one in the morning. After her last bottle last night she got very fussy and started crying, my husband picked her up and she threw up very white and chunky. Now this morning she did it again. She has no known food allergies or a fever or nothing else and she only seem to do it after she drank milk. What could this be??? Doctor: hi, welcome to this forum. Can understand your concern.- Vomiting in 15 month old child can be due to stomach infection, overfeeding or inadequate burping.- Stomach infection can occur in vomiting because the child usually takes everything in mouth and it can also occur due to teething. Due to teething, there is irritation in mouth and as a result child usually takes everything in mouth. This results in infection and vomiting in children.- Overfeading can be a cause of vomiting. If child is not taking milk then the child should not be over fed. The child usually vomits the extra milk. - Inadequate burping can also be a cause of vomiting. Child should be burped for at least 10 minute after every feed.- An examination by doctor should also be done so that we may not miss any important finding.I hope this will help you. Wishing your child good health. Take care.