Nasty Tummy Bug - WWYD

[marriedinwhite]

DD is 14. She has just been sick for the fifth time and is feeling so very ill. She wants to die or for someone to knock her out. The other end is starting now. I think it's just time and plain water when she thinks she might keep it down. Has anyone got any tips to make her feel more comfortable - I just feel so sorry for her.

Fanta helped me...and paracetamol for the joint ache afterwards. It's the worst if she has the same bug as me...the vomiting should ease out in a few hours.

Hope she is better soon.

Whatever liquid poor DD can get down is good! Coke, gatorade, vitamin water, milk, rehydration solution, they all have sugars and various other elements that help replace what your body is losing. Coke worked for me last night. Hope she's feeling better soon!

Sounds like norovirus.

Not much you can do for her, it will have to run its course naturally. Sips (no more than that otherwise it will come back up) of lukewarm water may help a little.

second idea of ice pops/ice lollies...

Have you tried diaralyte? (think that's what it's called!) sell it in asda etc, rehydration treatment, but i've just had a 5 day tummy bug from hell and it's the only thing i could keep down!

sugarry lucozade/coke aren't good. the sugar makes you feel even more sick! I had twiglets, for some reason they helped me too...

Really touched by all your responses. She's still completely flaked. Doesn't want anything to drink at all (wouldn't even mention food) but I think she's more settled now. She's in my (me and DH's bed) where she's been dozing for most of the day but the lights are off now and I hope she has a better night - and that I do too without her waking me up every 45 minutes to tell me she feels so ill she would rather die. Poor baby.

Have told her that if I get it, she will have to look after me. Even if she bucks up tomorrow I don't think I'll let her go to school on Monday.

Also recommend some plain toast or plain biscuits like digestives to line the stomach a bit. Can she sip tea too? It comforting at least, and might make her feel a bit more awake during the day? Hope she gets better soon, it's horrible to be so ill.

Where are you going out to? I'd want to avoid your family at this point in time

And YY to the flat coke, also sudocream/drapoline/vaseline anything you can use now as a barrier plus make her wipe with toilet paper dampened with water rather than dry. Then she can try and prevent that awful burning sensation you get with going too much before it happens. Sorry TMI!

OP- if it's Norovirus then DD is highly infectious... Try to disinfect the loo whenever she uses it/is sick and make sure to keep sanitising your hands after you touch her. DD2 had it so bad in march that she was hospitalised and put on codeine and sedatives as the pain was so bad (seriously, she didn't sleep for three days and was hysterically crying with the pain).

Ice pops (or just sucking on crushed ice) and capri-sun are my tips. Proper, old-fashioned capri-sun, though. Not the new-fangled 'made with real oranges' crap.

Sounds awful but why is she sleeping in your bed? You will almost certainly get it too

Because if I'm going to get it, I'm going to get it and she's my daughter Kerstina and she needed her mum when she felt absolutely rotten and if at even 14 I could make her feel more comfortable and safe to get through it, then that's what, as a mum, I do.

Anyway she's much brighter today. She's had a cup of tea and half a piece of toast.

Glad she is feeling brighter .You sound like a wonderful mum I confess I am emetophobic and could not bring myself do that as much as I love Ds

Hope she's better soon, married. Kerstina, you might surprise yourself, you know. I used to be emetophobic, but when my DD got noro last year, aged 12 months, I didn't blink at the actual sick bit, I was so worried about her. She ended upin hospital, and I slept on a campbed beside her - was throwing up myself in the end, in a horrible little hospital room with DD - it was vile, but I didn't feel scared of the vomiting/vomit in itself, if that makes sense. I think having kids can be a good cure - exposure therapy!!

Poor kid! I hope she is lots better very soon.

I have emetophobia too. Has been cripplingly bad at times. But over the weekend I had two vomiting dc in bed with me and every instinct in my being tells me to have them close. I am still terrified of vomiting but when the dc get 'that look' (what is it that tells you it's on its way, something changes suddenly), my instinct is to run towards them and help them through it. Which includes keeping them close and in my bed with me where I can keep an eye on them and cuddle as necessary. I still have the panic attacks and palpitations about it all and my hands are raw from washing them BUT there isn't a cat in hell's chance that I wouldn't have them close by when ill.

I haven't caught it btw and never have caught d&v from the dc. If they're v young, it's usually rotavirus which isn't such a problem as an adult (you have residual immunity and get it mildly mostly or not at all). Older dc and it's more likely to be norovirus which whips through young and old with the same ferocity.

Glad she's on the mend. Married. We've been vomit free for over 24hrs. Toxic diarrhoea is still here but improving I think.