Advice for dealing with ds 12 who has been very sick

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I have more than one child and have dealt with their bugs etc before but now doubting myself.

Ds has been very sick on average every hour since this afternoon. He's begging me for food but not keeping water down so I'm not feeling it's right to give him anything.

Any general advice please? Seems to be differing advice on when to give them fluids and solids etc...

Ready salted crisps and squash are my go to with the vomiting dc.

How is he?

After posting on this thread yesterday, I came down with a horrendous stomach bug out of nowhere. I'm utterly dehydrated right now but sipping dioralyte. Disgusting stuff.

Whatever you do , do not give lemonade and salt. This old fashioned remedy is now discredited. Give sips of water every half hour. A desert spoon helps to stop gulping. It sounds awful but one day is very common. Very gentle hydration, water is fine. No need for anything else. Tomorrow a bit of dry toast is the water stays down. Do not give big drinks they will come straight back. Please do not give flat coke, lemonade.etc. They can cause an imbalance of salts

Dioralyte is designed for hydration after prolonged diarrhoea. It has no place here, or crisps or banana. Maybe MN is actually the worst place for asking medical advice

My GP recommends dioralyte for any dehydration, this is backed up online.

Erm I’m a medic @confusedbeetle and you’re talking rubbish.
Dioralyte is routineley used for rehydration. Sips of water via a table spoon for a routine vomiting bug is way OTT.

Also, how can lemonade or flat coke cause ‘an imbalance of the salts’?!
And where’s you’re evidence that lemonade with a pinch of salt has been ‘discredited’

Let me guess, you work in homeopathy

Don't give him anything milky, or anything with a peculiar shape that's likely to traumatise him when it comes back up.

I say this because I've never quite recovered from the experience of vomiting spaghetti through my nose. It was super painful, too.

The last time I researched this, flat Coke with a pinch of salt is not recommended as a long term solution because it doesn't have potassium in it (I assume this is the "imbalance of salts" a PP was talking about), but as an emergency home made solution it's fine.

@Confusedbeetle I'm not offering medical advice I'm offering a suggestion for food as the op's son has asked for food.

GP recommends the BRAT diet when kids are recovering from a vomiting bug.

Bananas Rice Apples and plain Toast. Think he meant stewed apple.