Sickness bug in a 1 year old, how long before doctors?

[tryagainy]

So my 1 year old hasn't kept any thing down since before 12, nappy came off at 7 completely dry, do I call 111?

I probably wouldn’t call just now- that’s not that long in the grand scheme of sickness bugs. Have you tried ice lollies/ice chips? My kids manage that before they manage drinks of anything.

@Pammela nope she is refusing everything, and any little sips of drink just come back up again.

What have you tried? Ice lollies?. Sips/syringes of water in tiny amounts? Dioralyte solution?

How is s/he? Any lethargy? Easy to rouse? Awake/alert?

She will be keeping some down but the dry nappy would ring some faint alarm bells if it's after 8hrs.

When my dc had their first sickness bug at 10 months, I was led by other symptoms on top of the vomiting/diarrhoea, kept up with 5ml of water at a time maximum and they vomited for 3 days in the end. It was brutal. But nappies were wet in that time. Not massively so but still passing urine, normally alert, responsive, no other signs of dehydration.

Dry nappies would be enough for me to contact a doctor. Little ones need the extra caution at that age. Happened to us and we were seen the same day it came on fully as she couldn’t keep anything down and like that no wet nappy over hours. She had been off the day prior but no vomiting then during the night it was projectile!The doc in our situation said try dioralite unflavoured and I think it was diluted differently to adults but if the nappy was still dry in four hours go straight to a and e. The dioralite worked fantastically and I was ever so glad she had been seen. She was so much better within hours of having it and the bug ran it’s course. If she had of had to go in she would have gotten iv fluids. He said prevention is better than cure with young kids so I was glad it didn’t get any worse!

Thanks all, she has fallen asleep above 30 mins ago, I have tried ice lollies, squash in a drinks bottle and a cup. But any drink she has, has been brought back up.

You say she's one - is that 12 months, or 23? Or somewhere in between? I'd be more cautious about a 12 month old than a 23 month old I think.

My 11 month old has chickenpox and wasn't drinking and I spoke to a dr about it and they said more than 6 hours without anything in her nappy at all would be something to worry about. But I don't know if that would be different for a stomach bug.

Dry nappy after 4 hours = doctor. Syringes 5ml apple juice (the cheaper and sweeter the better) at a time every 5 mins. If they last anything more than 15 mins without spewing then some is getting in. A&E will have you do this so you might as well start it at home and write down what you manage. But yes, as a rule, dry nappies will be a doctor / a&e visit.

Please don't take a child with a vomiting bug into A & E unless a Dr tells you to.

Let their tummy rest. Even sips of water are irritating it, and I always boil the water first and cool it when you do offer drinks again. Hopefully a few hours sleep will do the trick.

My DS at that age ended up being blue lighted to hospital with a sickness bug. I was totally unaware how unwell he was but 111 were concerned as he was "listless"

Here is the key part though - at hospital all they did was put dioralyte into a calpol type syringe and I had to give him 10ml every 10 mins. I did that for an hour and within two hours he was running around like a different child.

Worth a try?

I had my baby ill withgastroenteritis at 3 months, fucking terrifying.

With a dry nappy and keeping nothing down I would be concerned and getting medical attention, but I can tell you what they told me. Get that oral hydration solution stuff, like dioralyte - I can’t remember what’s out there for the age group now. Check with a pharmacist near you for it, Google for a late one. Get 5 ml into the child every 5 minutes. Literally. By the clock. Yes they will throw some of it back, but enough will go in to keep them alive.

My baby was so thirsty she wanted more and was desperate to drink, but we had to keep her to 5 ml to prevent throwing up as much as possible.

It was horrible, we were doing that for 36 hours until she stopped throwing up quite so much. I still remember it - my baby is 12 years now. Good luck.

If you can get some diarolyte or make your own with sugar salt and water
String a fe__

Few mls at a time every 5 mins
Increasing till 10 mls tolerated at a time.
Honestly it's all hospital may do.

Small 5 ml syringes of cooled boiled room temperature water, every 10 mins until it's being kept down. A&E do do this (they call it fluid challenge) as previously posted and no food for 18/24 hours to let tummy settle and recover. Then start them slowly on quarter of dry cream cracker, for example, or half a rich tea biscuit, quarter slice dry toast etc you get the picture. Been here so many times with DT's.

My almost 1 year old was sick a lot at 2pm yesterday. But instantly was happy and full of beans like nothings happened. I am a worrier so I was wracking my brains is it a bug? Has she picked up and swallowed something she shouldn't have?!?

I settled my worry brain by deciding I'd made her too hot in her snow suit. Even though she's never ever been sick before, she's not a sicky baby!

She was fine the rest of the afternoon and evening. Ate a tiny amount of her dinner, but no more sick. But randomly just thrown up loads at 5am. Is that normal?! 13 hours between being sick?! Has any one else's little ones had bugs that have big gaps? And they seem absolutely fine in themselves?

@raeraekathleen I think that sounds normal. Young children can seem fine with a sickness bug.