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lo vomits when she has an ear infection

Mine did this 2 weeks ago. Same exact thing. Woke up at 10:30 and puked several times from 10:30-2am. No fever. Woke up the next morning, felt fine. Ate breakfast, ate lunch (ate a TON at lunch, actually), then didn't eat much dinner. Woke up at 4am, puked 2x. No fever. Woke up the next morning, felt fine. None of the rest of us got sick. So weird.

Post nasal drip?

There was a while when we kept finding DS on puke in the mornings, but we couldn't i
figure out why. One time it was an ear infection.

Was there something common you fed at dinner each night it happened? Kinda sounds like what happens with my LO when there is a GI allergy to something he ate. Takes usually 2-5 hours before symptoms, then pukes till there isn't anything left. Bounces back after 12 hours or so.

@Corduroy: As I read your description I immediately thought cyclic vomiting. My DD was diagnosed with it when she was around 15 months old, although the vomiting started around 9 months.

With DD, I realized she would have "periods of puke" and periods of no puke. Basically she would have several weeks of vomiting, 1-2 times a week, & then 1-2 months of no vomiting. Her vomiting episodes sound just like your daughter's: vomiting for several hours but waking up fine and eating normally.

If your daughter is diagnosed by a neurologist, there is migraine medication she can take daily. With my daughter I opted to wait it out a little longer (with a prescription of zofran) because some (most?) kids outgrow it. Thankfully, she's only had one episode of vomiting since then & that was almost a year ago. We are pretty sure she's outgrown it. Though, like you said, she will be more likely to suffer from migraines later.

Just like migraines, there can be triggers for the vomiting, and illness is one. I realized several times that DD would have "periods of puke" after particularly nasty colds. It's possible your daughter's cold triggered the vomiting.

Hope some of that was helpful!

@Corduroy: Hopefully it is just coincidence, seeing them sick, so often is heartbreaking!

My son recently had 2 days of vomiting in a 3 week period and all I could think was not again!! But it seems it was just bad luck that he got two stomach viruses back to back, hoping the same for your daughter!