Bodys Reaction to Throw Up Veggies

I have that problem with eggs. Not stuff with eggs in it (like cake) but egg dishes (scrambled, hard boiled, etc). I believe it's completely physiological caused by being forced to eat them as a kid; I'm 38 now. The smell of them is enough to turn my stomach.

sofaking6 wrote: »

I have that problem with tequila.

My problem is with Vodka... Stupid freshman year of college.

mccindy72 wrote: »

Unlikely, that ALL veggies would be unable to be tolerated. The kid can 'literally' keep something in his body, he is choosing not to, in defiance. It's pretty common behavior.
the brain is a pretty powerful thing and likes to decide what we do and do not like to eat. Personally I can't stomach some liquors after over imbibing when I was young.....

This^

It's psychological. I hate liver...cannot stand liver. When I was a child I was forced to eat liver and threw up at the kitchen table (stress, fear, whatever)....didn't start with my stomach.

mccindy72 wrote: »

usmcmp wrote: »

My son is on the autism spectrum and certain textures, tastes and smells make him throw up. He will try anything, but he doesn't keep them all down.

this being the exception, of course, to my reply earlier. There are always medical reasons.

Mine wasn't a rebuttal to yours, just sharing a personal experience. I have issues with textures as well, but they usually don't make it to my stomach to be thrown up. My son can have delayed response to textures and tastes. Smell aversion is immediate and not always related to foods (cow pastures make him gag).

Giant chocolate chip cookies. As a kid, I ate one... Woke up to vomiting everywhere. Everywhere. On the bed, on myself, on the pillow, on the floor next to bed... Yeech. Literally woke up to it, was doing it in my sleep that night.

I knew a couple kids who would make themselves throw up for attention and to get what they want. Could be if the parents give the attention they want when they throw up the veggies they may continue the behavior. May be that these specific kids I knew had serious issues and were a little bratty but it was definitely something they chose to do - not a medical issue.

doughnuts, or anything sweet in the morning. I got sick off of a cream puff in 8th grade...worst.feeling.ever.

Jennloella wrote: »

some of the stuff I threw up when pregnant I can't even smell now,

My son is 18. Just the thought of teriyaki chicken still makes me gag. I never threw up but when I was preggo the place I worked would want us to work overtime during lunch and would buy teriyaki chicken. The whole office would smell like teriyaki chicken for the entire day. I would spend the entire rest of the day saying "5 more minutes - 5 more minutes and I'm telling them I have to go home" it made me feel so ill. I couldn't eat it. I still don't eat it. Teriyaki beef is fine, but that chicken. I'm gagging typing this.

They've just been conditioned to have that response. Look up pavlov's dogs. Maybe that'll help you understand how the brain works.

As children, we're often encouraged/forced to clean our plates, even when the foods we're served don't mix well in tiny bellies. Milk and fibrous green veggies are usually the culprits, creating mucous and gas. I spent so many nights protesting overcooked broccoli and rapidly warming milk. I also would eventually eat it, and go to bed feeling discomfort and resentment. I thought everybody felt this way because I was shamed for not eating it, then it was assumed I was faking it if I felt sick.

When I had my first General Gau's chicken, I discovered I really like broccoli when it's bright green and not accompanied by room temperature milk! But I've also discovered that a lot of the foods I disliked as a child are actually foods that I don't digest well. I've lived through a lot worse than a sensitive stomach, though, and I've thrown up just about everything thanks to dialysis and migraines and my mysterious belly pains. I did a fodmap elimination diet a couple months ago when my gi doctor almost gave up and suggested it for ibs. The actual culprit of my mysterious belly pain was 15 years of gallbladder disease, but I also understand better why I felt so bad after certain meals as a kid. So I eat like a grown up child now!

Of course, I also had a mom with her own issues, and she maybe wasn't as kind as she could have been when it came to my food preferences. I was too scared to go to my parents even when I was bullied. These "bratty" kids who throw up their foods on purpose probably have much worse problems than potential malnutrition.

MFD7576 wrote: »

Justthisgirl1994 wrote: »

They've just been conditioned to have that response. Look up pavlov's dogs. Maybe that'll help you understand how the brain works.

I think conditioned is a bit extreme of a point of view. Conditioning in our case would involve brain washing over a length time. Not just 1 traumatic experience.

No seriously, that's what the scientific term for it is called. One experience is enough if it's traumatic enough. There's been so many studies on this and you can find it across species. If you're actually interested, you can find the original study if you google pavlov's dogs.