Is it possible to explain psychosomatic poisoning in children and adults?

Food poisoning or non-food - a condition in which the body is disturbed, a person experiences symptoms of intoxication. Most often, poisoning is accompanied by vomiting and diarrhea. Whether it can be caused by psychological factors, we will tell in this article.

Poisoning is a consequence of exposure to the body of poisons or toxins. In the case of food poisoning, symptoms appear as a reaction to the ingestion of bacteria that produce toxic metabolic products. Adults and children can get poisoned with carbon monoxide, medicines, poisons, stale or contaminated food. To get into the body of a poisonous substance can not only through the stomach, but also through the skin, respiratory tract.

The help at poisoning is based on the fastest removal from a body of a substance which caused pathological changes. In the future, the patient is symptomatic treatment.

At first glance, there is absolutely no connection between the mental state of a person and his poisoning. But this opinion is erroneous. Please note that by eating a stale product at the same time, one person will not feel any consequences for the body, another will experience a mild eating disorder, and a third will go to the hospital with symptoms of severe intoxication. This is the action of the psychosomatic factor. A person at the subconscious level decides for himself how his body should perceive the dangerous substance that has come in, how he should react to it.

Sometimes a person feels the symptoms of poisoning and has no idea what could cause it, there are no apparent reasons for nausea and vomiting. In this case, psychoanalysts say that subconsciously the person needed rest, a pause in business, in order to get rid of the superfluous, "undigested", accumulated in the recent negativity. Often the cause of poor health is unresolved conflict. Sometimes a person tries to draw the attention of people dear to him with symptoms of psychosomatic poisoning if he is sorely lacking. This is most often what children do, because they are not always able to convey this information to their parents in other ways. Adults so attract the attention of colleagues and acquaintances to their person.

What internal-type conflicts increase the likelihood of poisoning? This is aggression, both directed at the external object, and internal, it is an excessive, stupid manifestation of sexuality, gloating, arrogant attitude towards the world and people in it, resentment and the lack of ability or desire to forgive offenders. A person tries to keep in himself what, in his opinion, will cause public condemnation - the same aggression or gloating. As a result, strong destructive emotions cause disturbances in the functioning of organs and the nervous system.

Psychosomatics of poisoning in children almost always implies that the child has a fear of loneliness, and in adolescents, the opposite is true; they want to hide and become invisible to others. It is not always possible to trace the psychosomatic factors in childhood poisoning, and no one is particularly concerned with this.Only if a child has a poisoning occur with enviable regularity, often, then the pediatrician may advise the child psychologist to show the child.

The danger of this approach is that one-time poisoning is a signal of severe unresolved internal conflicts, and it is they who remain unsolved, with the result that a particular chronic disease, for example, cholecystitis or gastritis, develops gradually.

In children, poisoning is very often accompanied not only by intestinal disorders, but also by skin rashes in the form of atopic dermatitis, urticaria. This means that the feelings of the kid heated up to the limit. He can no longer restrain his experiences, they require a way out.

Experienced psychoanalysts have long noticed that many patients indicate that after the poisoning there have been negative events in life. This suggested that the poisoning itself could also be a signal of impending danger, a “bell” that warns a person that something will happen soon, that it will be difficult for him to “digest”.

If the poisoning is exclusively neurogenic, then it would be more reasonable to call it an inadequate response of the central nervous system to a certain stress factor. Such poisoning is difficult to treat with standard medications or is not amenable to treatment at all, has no clear and valid physiological reasons. Almost always it happens suddenly.

In order to understand why an adult or child has become poisoned, it is important to act not only on the principles of psychosomatic medicine, but also to turn to an ordinary doctor who can determine whether there were physiological grounds for disrupting the body’s work. At the same time, it is worth thinking about what a difficult, conflict situation has recently taken place, how you behaved in it.

If the child has poisoned, you need to pay attention to how much time you spend on your baby, whether his needs for communication and love are satisfied. Elimination of negative psychological factors makes treatment together with taking medications effective, and knowledge of the psychosomatic causes of poisoning will help to avoid repeated violations.