Hi all,
My daughter is almost 4 (next month) and last Saturday came down with a bit of a tummy bug. She had diarrhea Saturday afternoon and has been off nursery (and I've had to struggle to WFH with her) all week. It's been tough to say the least as she's absolutely fine in herself. Every day I think oh she's getting better, will have a more formed (not quite normal but not pure diarrhea) in the morning and maybe lunchtime but then in the afternoon it's back to being really loose again. No temperature, no loss of appetite, no acute illness symptoms, just dodgy belly that goes from being almost normal, to mr whippy (sorry for all the gory details) to pure loose stool throughout the day. I've sent samples off at the doc today, think they are testing for rotavirus and bacterial infection. I honestly thought she was on the mend today but back to loose this evening, I can't have another week of trying to WFH with her, I only started my new role a couple of weeks ago and they have been understanding but I need to learn the role and can't do it working from home, I need to be in the office.
Does this sound like some sort of virus? It's been 7 days now. And at what point if it's not a virus or acute illness can I say to nursery sorry you just need to take her and accept she has loose bowels at the moment and how does that work, do I need a letter from the doctor or something? This is really unlike her, she usually is the other way and tends to get constipated and need movicol!