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Strange sickness bug? Or something else?

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TeamLemon · 02/04/2011 23:04

DS2 (3 in July) has been sick three times this week (Wed, Fri & tonight!), each in the late evening, with no other signs of illness.
He is off his food a bit, not eating proper meals since Tuesday but filling up on cereal in the morning.

Sorry if this is TMI, but each time he's been sick it was been mostly fluid he's drunk and remains of all the food from the day. I've just washed this morning's regurgitated scrambled egg off the duvet!

What should I do? Is this a bug do you think, or something else to consider?

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ColdHeartedBitch · 02/04/2011 23:08

Is he constipated?

vintageteacups · 02/04/2011 23:08

Has he got a cough at the moment or have hayfever/cold?

ColdHeartedBitch · 02/04/2011 23:09

Sorry didnt mean to be blunt. Was thinking that if he iss throwing up his breakfast then it suggests perhaps there was an issue with progression through the disgestive tract. Thus it would be wise to consider the exiting of the food as well as the entering into the system.

ColdHeartedBitch · 02/04/2011 23:15

Vinageteacups - has a good point. ds has just heaved up a stomachs worth of mucus snot he is very bad with his hayfever atm.

vintageteacups · 02/04/2011 23:16

coldheart that was certainly true for my dd but I never put 2 and 2 together until you just said!

vintageteacups · 02/04/2011 23:17

Yep - dd too (and ds come to think of it) always threw up having had a stomach full of not much except mucus - hmmm- lovely.

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TeamLemon · 02/04/2011 23:18

Hello CHB, you found me!
No, not constipated, although he's not eating enough to pass much, IYKWIM.
He's had some firm stools, and a couple of soggier ones too. His nappies are drier too, but we're trying to get him to drink a bit more.

He had a cough/cold two weeks ago, no hayfever. The sickness is not preceded by coughing. He literally wakes, sits up, shouts "Mummy!" and then vomits.

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TeamLemon · 02/04/2011 23:21

It's not mucousy at all. Just liquid (water, squash, juice etc) and lumps of breakfast.

Oh! Could it be egg? An allergy/intolerance to egg?

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vintageteacups · 02/04/2011 23:23

Mine don't have egg allergy/intolerace yet always puked up egg (and pasta and meat) if they had a bug.

tomhardyismydh · 02/04/2011 23:26

uti?

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TeamLemon · 02/04/2011 23:30

UTI? Really? I'd never of thought of that. Would he not be showing more symptoms?

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ColdHeartedBitch · 02/04/2011 23:34

UTI symptoms can be vague for an adult who can articulate what is wrong. He is little so much harder to tell if there are symptoms.

If he is getting fluids i would keep an eye and get to the doc early next week tbh. It could be a mild intollerance to the egg but equally possible to be something else. he wont hurt with not eating for a few days if fluid intake is ok. Bribery is ok in this situation.

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TeamLemon · 02/04/2011 23:40

He's such a stubborn little bugger that bribery rarely works if he's set his mind to something!
He looks like such an angel now he's asleep, though.

Thinking back, DS1 (nearly 6) had a similar thing at about 3yo. He would have a glass of milk before bed, and then bring it all back up. We changed him to goats milk and he was fine.
DS2 has always had goats milk, but neither boy has milk before bed now, so I know it is not the milk causing the issue. Is it common for 2-3yo to throw up for no plain reason?!

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ColdHeartedBitch · 02/04/2011 23:55

I wouldnt say so. i think there will be a reason but it wont necessarily be an obvious one.
Ds had severe cows milk allergy and they said not to give goats milk as the protein structure was too similiar. could you try rice or oat milk if there is history of intollerance to milk? Ds is now just intollerant and it is a delayed response meaning he can be sick up to several hours after the exposure.

It is a bugger though.

In this situation ds can be bribed with fizzy water. I know, bad mummy but he is a stubborn toad when he wants to be.

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TeamLemon · 03/04/2011 00:09

Just been googling (and not for Robporn this time!) and I'll try and give him some diaorlyte when he wakes.

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ColdHeartedBitch · 03/04/2011 00:16

goggle is the work of the devil when it comes to medical stuff. Step away from google, or just google something else.

Diaorlyte sounds like a good plan.

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TeamLemon · 03/04/2011 00:19

The fruits of my googling are on the TSA thread!!

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ColdHeartedBitch · 03/04/2011 00:20

Grin I saw.

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TeamLemon · 05/04/2011 10:55

Urgh!
He threw up again yesterday evening.
His childminder had agreed to have him so I could work. He was fine all day, ate his lunch, played in the garden, very happy.

An hour and half I picked him up, he'd been sick all over himself and me.

We have a doctors appointment at 4.20.

He had a very small bowl of cornflakes with a tiny dash of milk at 7.30 this morning. Now he's screaming for more food.
I don't know whether to deny him, or give him something to eat with the full expectation of seeing it all again in a few hours time.

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vintageteacups · 05/04/2011 11:11

If he says he's hungry, then my gp told me not to withhold food - the only thing that would happen is that it's sicked up again possibly.

I'd stick with plain toast/cheerios/rice etc until he stops being sick.
Could be cow's milk intolerance.

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TeamLemon · 05/04/2011 11:18

He has goats milk, not cows, but a previous poster said that probably doesn't make much difference.

Oh he's in a foul mood today! Poor baby.

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TeamLemon · 05/04/2011 11:26

He's now munching on dry cornflakes and a cream cracker.

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vintageteacups · 05/04/2011 11:29

Borwn rice is very good for ridding the gut of bad bacteria.

In Africa - many peole chew a small handful of it raw every day to keep their stomach healthy - I'd check the raw thing before giving it to your DS though. Cooked would be good though - even white rice is very good at the same sort of thing.

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TeamLemon · 05/04/2011 11:35

As a family we eat a lot of brown rice, but trying to get DS to eat rice without it being drowned in sauce would be nigh on impossible!

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vintageteacups · 05/04/2011 11:48

So drown it in sauce Grin