Sorry to post here, but I’d appreciate some other parental perspective, as I’m quite worried about my daughter, and we had a poor experience last year at the local hospital here in Spain when she had to be admitted.
DD has immune problems, and is a regular inpatient back home. Last Friday just as we arrived, our daughter started complaining of stomach pain, and vomited a few times over the weekend. She’s been listless all week, barely eating, and can’t stay upright without being faint. We assumed it must be a stomach bug, so have been giving rehydrate medicine etc. However last night her pain has considerably worsened, is now more to the lower right, and she’s now uncontrollably leaking large quantities of foul smelling liquid faeces. She can’t move without crying out in pain, and her initial fever has returned. We took her to a local doctor, his English was limited...he immediately dismissed it as viral gastroenteritis, and offered no assurance over my concerns for possibility of appendicitis, or indeed her underlying immune status. He just didn’t seem that concerned at all. We were in and out in 5 minutes.
Having had my own burst appendix as a child, and my eldest suffering the same a few years back, the shift in pain is all too familiar. Has anyone had any experience where they’ve had gastroenteritis wrongly diagnosed? Isn’t 7 days too long for a regular tummy bug?? She is very thin and has already lost a lot of weight...just a very worried mum at the moment, she is usually on open access to the paediatric ward at home so are feeling quite vulnerable out here...any advice would be so helpful 