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V and D for nearly a week

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PetalMettle · 05/11/2016 09:39

My son nearly 15 months has had d since Monday, vomitting every day but yesterday.

He's very weak and tired as he's eaten next to no solids since Tuesday, and feels very bony (he was small born, struggled to gain weight initially and most recently was on 9th percentile weighed).

I took him to OOO on Thursday night and they said he wasn't too dehydrated and just to wait it out. Is that what I should do?

I know I'm quite pfb about him. He was on 0.4 line for first five months, and it took me a long time to get pregnant, but it just seems like a very long time to be ill

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PetalMettle · 05/11/2016 09:42

Oh and MIL looked after him yesterday and said we should take him to a and e or doctors before giving him calpol - he's had a fever but it's been going down with calpol and I took him to gps an hour after he'd had it so he seemed quite well

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megletthesecond · 05/11/2016 09:45

I'd be going back with him today. That's a long time for an adult to be wrung out with d&v, let alone a toddler. If you think you're pfb then I'm pfb too. And I'd have been the same with dc2.

ElspethFlashman · 05/11/2016 09:47

Possibly rotavirus when it's that long. That's the one that lasts a week.

When DS had it around that age we reverted to Ellas pouches, the sucky ones. He managed a few of those. And Frubes. And chips!

As long as he's not dehydrated and his temp responds to Calpol, then it will pass.

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PetalMettle · 05/11/2016 10:10

He had the drops but he ended up in hospital with gastro 6 months ago. He also had vomitting and liquid poo Sunday before last but that only lasted a day

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Roastie1986 · 14/11/2016 20:54

Hey is little one better?my ds had what I thought and docs also told me at 11 months old a bug. Well I took him to the docs 3 days running as I thought I should act on my own instinct. All 3 times docs said just a bug and he wasn't dehydrated. Well on the Sunday he ended up in resuscitation and confirmed gastrointorirus. I'd say anything lasting more than 2 days is gastrointorirus. X

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PetalMettle · 14/11/2016 22:09

Hello. Thanks yes he is better fx now. It lasted one more day, so six days in total. It turned out to be salmonella poisoning. Sad luckily he was nursing a lot and taking enough water not to need to go to hospital this time

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Roastie1986 · 14/11/2016 22:22

Wow salmonela posining! Holy crap that's awful Sad

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PetalMettle · 15/11/2016 03:16

Yes, no wonder he was so poorly. Sad

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