Should I be worried about how much toddler is sleeping?

[MyMabel]

19 month old DD has been poorly this weekend, temp of 38 with calpol and Nurofen, inconsolable crying, seems to not be able to get comfy thrashing around.

She slept most of yesterday and if she wasn’t asleep she was just sat quiet watching telly, little appetite but drinking fine thankfully.

She’s also got diarrhoea and conjunctivitis (in the wars I know!) - but yesterday she slept from 3pm -6pm as a late nap which I don’t usually put her down for but she could barely stay awake, then went back to sleep at 8pm until 8am this morning. Stayed up until about 9:30 and has been asleep since.

Seems a silly question but is sleeping too much a bad sign? I know that sleeping is when the body does the most repairing, but I think I read something about contacting the GP if they’re sleeping too much?

I have already contacted the GP about her viral symptoms and conjunctivitis. But because it’s all online now they’ll get back to me by 6pm tomorrow.

Do you think I should have her seen sooner/call 111?

I’d call 111.

My daughter (2) just sleeps off bugs. I used to be worried but then realised thats how she likes to get better.

If your child still has wet nappies and isnt floppy then they might be just sleeping it off. If they seem not themselves there is no harm ringing 111, they have been very helpful to us over the past year!

Hope they feel better soon, i hate it when my daughter is ill 😩

If you can rouse them and they are alert when awake and weeing as normal then I wouldn’t worry.

Have you done a covid test? My daughter is exhausted from covid (aged 4) and is sleeping a lot.

@ItsSnowJokes I’ve got tests here to do. Stupid question but should I do the test on her (how on earth, she won’t even let me wipe her nose without a fight) or shall I just do one?

@Pissinthepottyplease

If you can rouse them and they are alert when awake and weeing as normal then I wouldn’t worry.

My DN could be roused, was alert when awake, and weeing as normal with sepsis. It’s why 111 advice is for the child to be seen whenever there is a behaviour change. And it seems like sleeping all day is a major red flag for OP which is why she’s posting on here.

OP call 111 / go to an urgent care centre / pediatric A&e and get proper medical advice.

I’m not a toddler but we (me and DP) just had an awful bout of food poisoning and slept from
3pm-5:30pm then 6:30pm - 7am then 12pm- 2pm over the weekend.

As PPs have said we do sleep things off but it’s important to check she’s still drinking/can be roused/peeing ok.

[quote MyMabel]@ItsSnowJokes I’ve got tests here to do. Stupid question but should I do the test on her (how on earth, she won’t even let me wipe her nose without a fight) or shall I just do one?[/quote]
It’ll need to be a PCR not LFT and the car seat should help to restrain her.

mine always have had ridiculous amounts of sleep at the end of recovering from an illness.
they just sleep & sleep.
because I know their patterns I never called 111 for that BUT if you are concerned please do.

in the meantime check on her as often as you feel comfortable or take her to where you are so you don't have to get up often.
sometimes mine would sleep in the living room on the sofa or even in on a small matters on the floor in my sewing room so I could keep an eye on them.

best of luck

[quote MyMabel]@ItsSnowJokes I’ve got tests here to do. Stupid question but should I do the test on her (how on earth, she won’t even let me wipe her nose without a fight) or shall I just do one?[/quote]
As hard and traumatic as it is you have to pin them down physically and do the test. It's not nice but over in 30 secs give them a treat afterwards and they will be over the stress a lot quicker than you are. Your daughter really needs a test, she has all the symptoms of delta covid in my opinion.

Called 111 and ambulance was 2 hour wait time so I drove her to a&e instead, spent the afternoon at the hospital and she’s got a nasty case of tonsillitis and a virus. Been sent home with throat numbing spray.

Jesus wept, I knew when I opened this it would have turned into a "they've got Covid thread"........

I was going to suggest checking ears and throat, OP. My middle DD was really prone to tonsillitis when she was a toddler and it made her so sleepy and we would struggle to get her temperature down.

Hope she's better soon - it's a real worry

Everything is COVID now; 111 asked if we’d tested for COVID I said I’d done the lateral flow on both me and DD both negative and they were happy with that.

Back up the hospital last night as she got worse; they had another look and said viral and sent us home.. then the doctor chased me down out of the building and said he’d just been reading the notes from the previous days visit and the doctor the first time noted pus on her tonsils so it is in fact bacterial and she needs antibiotics.. can’t believe we wasn’t given them the first time😫

Oh god, that sounds awful.
Hope you get them soon and she starts feeling better.