DS(16) has been unwell since the weekend. Initially we suspected a flu type bug, but with a high temperature he needed a Covid test which thankfully came back negative.
He's mentioned on and off since Saturday that he had a stomach ache but this has got perceptibly worse. This morning DH received a panicky call from DS asking him to collect him from college as he felt so unwell.
I cannot stress enough that DS is very rarely ill and is known for soldiering on regardless. I'm unsure whether he simply has no experience of being quite ill? He says he feels iller than he ever has before.
I'm just home from work and he's still tottering back and forth to the bathroom. He says he has diarrhoea and has been to the toilet at least 20 times throughout the day (by my count)
He has stomach pain but it is "all over" rather than in one place. Sometimes it "is enough to make him flinch". When he came home from college he said it felt like his stomach was twisted. He hasn't eaten for nearly 24 hours - I truly suspect this is the first time this has happened since he was born.
As a parent I'm so unprepared for this as like I said, he's never ill. The fact he's in such a sorry state makes me feel concerned, but I'm not sure how to deal with it? I'm guessing it's now a call to the GP in the morning?
Any advice would be gratefully appreciated.
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DS is ill - advice please!
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Champagneforeveryone · 13/11/2020 02:08
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