My DD has chicken pox two weeks ago & had spots in her mouth. She went right off eating & drinking although drank OK, just less than usual. Then she went back to nursery for a day & picked up norovirus. She was really poorly for 12 hours, vomiting every 15 mins the entire time. Since then, she’s barely eaten & drinking is tiny sips at a time. She went to hospital yesterday because she’d become really dehydrated. They checked her over & said she also has tonsillitis & gave her a whack of painkillers & throat spray. Didn’t want to give her antibiotics as this is her 4th case on tonsillitis in 4 months. In 5 hours, they got 5ml of water down her but said so long as we kept that up, we could go home. They were extremely busy & had people queuing for our bed (we were in the covid triage zone as she had a fever). I don’t think we got very good care at all.
Anyway, back home, we managed maybe another 5ml before bed & about 3 licks of an ice pop. She slept OK, woke up screaming a couple times but settled.
Today, she’s been the most miserable, lethargic kid I’ve ever seen. It’s like every moment was hard work & painful. She’s not moved off the sofa once. We are getting tiny bits of liquid down - a sip of water, a sip of milk, few more licks of an ice pop. A teaspoon of jelly. No food at all. She is having wet nappies but it’s one small, yellow wee every 7-8 hours.
Should I worry? I’m really concerned it’s been 6 days of very limited fluids. I kept getting told yesterday so long as she’s having wet nappies, it’s fine. Well, she is but there’s really not much wee! & this is now over several days. She’s clearly not very well at all.. I feel so worried 😢