She has a cough/cold and we're watching her closely as she has chronic lung disease and we know it can go to her chest very quickly. She has had a couple of bites of flapjack today and only one drink of water. She was only done one wee when she woke up around 7am (7 hours ago). DH took her to urgent care today as they were in a car accident on Saturday and although she was checked out on the scene, she has still been complaining of aches and pains (including on her ribs) and with the cough we thought it best to get it checked. The Dr said there's no sign of skeletal injury and she's just got a cough/cold at the same time coincidently.
She is currently sleeping on the sofa but I'm going to wake her soon to try to get her to drink something. She has said her throat hurts so I assume that's why she's refusing but she won't even let us give her Calpol to ease it, she just gets upset and the more worked up she gets the more she'll cough and it will make it all worse.
Does anyone have any tips to get fluids into her? She will only drink water and milk but she is refusing both, she won't even try fruit juice or squash. I'm going to see if she'll have some soup and I'm going to get DH to buy some ice cream to give that a go, but she doesn't really like ice cream.
How long should we leave her without taking any fluids or passing urine before we get her checked?
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Unwell toddler not drinking
maybethedayafter · 12/10/2016 14:02
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She woke up and wouldn't have water but said she'd have some milk so she had 100ml. She then ate a sausage and seemed much brighter but now she's thrown everything up 
On the plus side she did do a wee after the milk so I'm not too concerned about that. I just feel awful for her because she still gives that horrible pleading look where she thinks I have some control over it and I'm just choosing not to make it stop. She's currently curled up on my chest, coughing continuously while DH tries to get DD2 to take a bottle. I can hear her crying in the kitchen. This is one of those times I wish I could clone myself!
She doesn't like jelly 
It sounds like I have the fussiest child in the land! She's not too bad, she's just not a big fan of sweet food.
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