Why puking gives us so much relief after feeling sick and nauseous?
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Sometimes it does give us instant and lasting relief, but other times the nausea hits back after 10 minutes and you go through the same cycle. Very tiring.
The Vagus nerve! I used to get migraines when I was young, to the point that any light would increase the pain until I would eventually vomit. Once that happened, my migraine would just slowly disappear. Turns out the esophageal convulsions would effect the vagus nerve and get rid of any pain and nausea still hanging around!
I just had to suffer until I threw up lol
Had severe food poisoning and now I have a phobia of vomiting. I don’t care if I should to relieve myself the trauma of it scares me. Rather writhe in pain on the floor.
Another answer I learned the hard way:
The upper sphincter of the stomach is on the same main nerve as the heart and lungs. Major irritation to that nerve can jame these critical signals to these vital organs and cause nausea and even loss of consciousness. It’s happened to me multiple times.
Twice in high school, I had a stomach flu/food poisoning kicked off by passing out- once on my science teacher’s rotund belly as a crumpled, the other time in the nurses’ office when I woke up in the waiting chair to pants and shoes covered in vomit.
Since then, I have nearly passed out from nausea a handful of times- once or twice while drinking, a few times while terrible hungover, but other times barely at all- one morning I finished a sip of kind of warm beer before driving someone to their parked car and getting hit with a brownout while exiting an offramp at 60 mph.
In theses cases, as soon as I puke the brownout/blackout subsides. It’s been explained to me that my stomach nerve jams up my breathing/heartbeat, which manifests as nausea at low levels and for me, it can be much more severe. (I also rarely get nauseous otherwise- iron stomach and no motion issues.)
I know sometimes I will get a migraine so bad that it makes me sick to my stomach and as soon as I get sick, it starts to ease off so I can actually function again. I have no idea why this is, but it happens.
Okay, like you’re actually five.
Your body notices there’s something in there that shouldn’t be there! So when it goes out, your body says “well done on getting rid of that!” by making some relaxation hormones. Also your blood pressure goes down a little. But I’m not sure if five year olds know what that is.
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