hi more of a WWYD but was hoping for quick replies.
my 11mo DD has viral gastroenteritis. She first started vomiting on thursday and on friday after 24 hours of keeping nothing down i phoned NHS 24 to be advised that she was teething and to keep giving her calpol and teething gel! After i assured the woman it wasn't teething she told me to try her with an oz of milk at a time to try and gauge how much she was keeping down and phone back later. So a few hours later, positive that she wasn't keeping anything down i phone back and get a different chap who tells me to go to gp and he sends message to gp.
So gp phones and gives me an appt for 2pm (this was 11am) and tells me that i should give her 5ml water every 5 min. So we do and arrive for appt to be told its not till 4 and receptionist tells us that the gp that called is gone for the day and all others are on house calls bar one who refuses to see her until 4pm. Another GP walks in at this point and takes one look at her and agrees to see her. He refers us to paed dept at hospital.
We go and they take BM level which is lower than range (3.4) and are told that we shouldn't have been giving her plain water but sugared water or diluting juice but ideally diorolyte which they give us and ask us to try get a urine sample. This is no easy task froma dehydrated 11mo so we sit in a room administering 5ml of diorolyte every 5 mins from 2:30pm until 11pm when we get a urine sample.
it is clear so we are discharged and told to contine with the 5x5 of diorolyte through night and try her with 1-2oz of milk in morning.
We do this and DD vomits again, try again at midday and she vomits again. So phone hospital and they say "oh no if she has gastroenteritis don't give her milk, just bland food". So gave her carrot and she kept it down, hurrah!
Yesterday, however, she was back to vomiting, not a lot so we just persevere with bottles of diorolyte and bland food.
today, she's back to vomiting all solids and is only keeping down her 3 bottles of diorolyte so i phone hospital again and they suggest just giving her diorolyte till thursday but she is screaming for food, although throwing it back up!
Now, my question is wwyd? Does anyone know if diorolyte is fine for a full week? I'm at my wits end and feel like i'm starving her, she is lethargic. Ie she can walk/crawl etc but today she barely has the energy to get off my knee. But shes not floppy or anything.
To top it all off i went to pharmacy to ask for diorolyte from minor ailments so sales assistant went to ask pharmacist who i heard say "can you even give it to under ones" so assistant comes back and refuses to give it on minor ailments so i said ok i'll just buy it and she refuses to sell me it as DD is under one and you can't give it to under ones. She claims that the box states its not suitable for under ones and i tell her it doesn't as the box she had in her hand is same one i purchased from asda and it says for under 2s see a doctor which i have and it was doctor recommended but she still refused!!! Arghhhh.....
Sorry its such a rant! :(