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    The Queasy Truth About Why Kids Are So Prone to Vomiting

    Why do children throw up so often and so colorfully? When should parents be worried? All your childhood vomit questions answered.
    by Erin Blakemore Sep 10, 2018 3 minutes
    Children's vomiting reaction is easily triggered and sometimes all parents can do is hold back their hair and wait it out.

    When Linda Tock heard her 5-year-old telling her he was going to be sick, she moved quickly. She sprinted for a trashcan, ready to run upstairs to help her son, with her husband, Simon, close behind her. Then it happened: a rain of vomit from the balcony above. "I put the trashcan over my head," Tock recalls. "We just got showered." Puke splashed onto every surface—and even into her unlucky husband's open mouth.

    The Tocks' experience has been shared by parents around the world. Sometimes,

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