dd has severe d & v and is now retching up blood.

[BarryShitpeas]

Help.

Whole family has had flu of some kind AND d & v.

Dd (7) can not keep sips of water down. Last night she retched 3 times - clear water and blood- maybe a teaspoonful with each retch.

I have read about rehydrating and electrolytes, so feel confident about rehydrating her, but am worried by the blood.

Is it just a natural extension of retching, or something more sinister?

This morning she has been unable to keep any fluids down, but is bringing up water with no blood in it.

Help, and sorry for typos.

A vote for common sense and not ignoring your GPs advice. A&E is not appropriate unless she had not passed any urine or the bloody vomiting became significantly worse. How can A&E be the best place when you sit next to loads of kids with flu etc. Do you think rehydrating via intravenous fluids an easy option? not! Sticking needles in little kids is traumatic! AND they never give anti emetics for gastro enteritis.

Sometimes the hysterical 'go to A&E' is very annoying to an A&E nurse such as myself, when there are far more appropriate places.

Thanks all, she is on the mend.

Shame about the ruck in the middle, though.

Glad she is on the mend and that your GP was able to give you good advice.

Good to hear she's getting better Barry.

Very pleased to hear she is feeling better Barry. Hope the rest of you are all ok too.

Please rest assured that the tiny little spat in the middle of this thread was nowhere near like a proper Mumsnet ruck. That was a walk in the park in the great scheme of Mumsnet rucks.

This NHS choices page here
says it is dangerous to give flat coke, or any carbonated drinks/ fruit juices etc.

quote

'One study did look at what was in a wide range of readily available fluids and commercially produced drinks including soups, juices, fruit-flavoured drinks and carbonated drinks. The analysis showed a wide range of sodium concentrations (ranged from 0.1 to 251 mmol/l), potassium concentrations (from 0.0 to 65 mmol/l), and osmolalities (ranged from 246 to 2000 mOsm/l) in the substances tested that included cola.

The high osmolality and unpredictable sodium and potassium content of many of these drinks suggest they could be harmful'

Dont want to seem like a misery but flat coke/fizzy drinks may not be a good idea at all because of all the dangerous stuff in it.