My daughter (4) gave me a real scare tonight, been to OOH GP, but not convinced?

[mummytowillow]

My daughter (4) has been complaining of tummy ache for about 10 days, I've kind of ignored it as she likes to moan about stuff like that (I feel bad now)!

So, on Sunday she vomited all her breakfast up, but was fine after. Then for the last two days she has had very loose bowels, almost like baby poo colour and frothy/bubbly?

This morning she cried going to the toilet and became very upset, but was then OK. However, tonight she ate the last mouthful of her dinner, and came running into the kitchen literally shaking all over, like a convulsion (I know it wasn't). She was hysterical and couldn't tell me what was wrong, then she needed to go to the loo urgently, and passed another loose poo?

She sat on my knee for 10 minutes and was dithering and her teeth were chattering. I immediately phoned the doctor and they told me to take her OOH.

Doctor saw her, did pulse, heart, temp and checked her tummy and couldn't really say what was wrong. He said she is obviously not right, and thought it might be colic pains? I appreciate its difficult to diagnose as she had perked up a bit?

Is it worth another visit to my own GP in the morning, or should I just leave it?

Also, do you think it might be emotionally related, we are having contact problems with her daddy at the moment, he has let her down a lot recently and I know she is very distressed about it all?

Doctor also said to starve her for 24 hours, how does that work with a 4 year old?

Did you take her temp when she was shaking? Did she feel v hot? Ds gets rigours with a fever...

She felt very cool and clammy? I spoke to triage nurse first, and she asked me to do temp and it was 33.6, but she has bad wax in her ears and nurse said it was probably wrong?

Doctor mentioned rigours, will google .......

If not better in the morning take her to your own GP

I wouldn't be happy with that temp reading - a low temp can signify an infection. Take her to your GP in morning imo.

when ds has waxy ears and needs his temperature taking (it does give a low reading) I also use temperatures taken (still using the in the ear thermometre) against his forehead, under his arm or in his mouth (under his tongue like the traditional thermometre). If you do it a couple of times in those places when they're well you have a benchmark to work with (forehead is generally much cooler than ear or mouth).
HTH

Hope she's better.