Emetophobia is a very common phobia, with cases present in children, adolescent and adults.
Many children with emetophobia have been known to have a history of Vomiting due to sickness, self stimulatory hand-mouthing vomiting, or a history of punishment usually after vomiting.
A number of children affected with the phobia are mentally disabled.
At the early stages of this illness when the child seems to be developing the phobia, symptoms are only strong when there is due due cause, the anxiety it creates may be dismissed as common dislike for vomit, or as childish fickleness.
parents will fail to see beyond this, will fail to understand that their child is already at the egde.
When your child develops the habit of asking "will i throw up?" after suffering a stomach bug you may dismiss such as a ripple that will pass but soon it turns into an obsession,and then you cannot find a lid for it! I have a friend whose daughter have 4 stomach bugs before she was 9.
After this incessant attacks she developed the habit of always asking her mother(my friend) "Mommy, will i throw up?" but did not stop her from enjoying her day in school, from other activities, or from the dinning table.
But someday something happened that pushed her over the egde; at a birthday party one of her cousin threw up right at her, it was really traumatic for her.
She returned with a hysterical paula.
Since that incident she went completely phobic.
She is completely consumed by the fear of vomiting that spends half her day in school with the nurse.
Many children with emetophobia have been known to have a history of Vomiting due to sickness, self stimulatory hand-mouthing vomiting, or a history of punishment usually after vomiting.
A number of children affected with the phobia are mentally disabled.
At the early stages of this illness when the child seems to be developing the phobia, symptoms are only strong when there is due due cause, the anxiety it creates may be dismissed as common dislike for vomit, or as childish fickleness.
parents will fail to see beyond this, will fail to understand that their child is already at the egde.
When your child develops the habit of asking "will i throw up?" after suffering a stomach bug you may dismiss such as a ripple that will pass but soon it turns into an obsession,and then you cannot find a lid for it! I have a friend whose daughter have 4 stomach bugs before she was 9.
After this incessant attacks she developed the habit of always asking her mother(my friend) "Mommy, will i throw up?" but did not stop her from enjoying her day in school, from other activities, or from the dinning table.
But someday something happened that pushed her over the egde; at a birthday party one of her cousin threw up right at her, it was really traumatic for her.
She returned with a hysterical paula.
Since that incident she went completely phobic.
She is completely consumed by the fear of vomiting that spends half her day in school with the nurse.
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