Hi my 5 year is quite poorly. He has a sandpaper like rash on his back early last week and no other symptoms. On Friday morning he came into bed beside me and vomited. He seemed completely fine that day bar a very high temp (no more vomiting). He woke up on Saturday with another high temp but in great form. By midday he started looking very ropey and his temp was creeping up again. I checked him other and his tongue had strawberry tongue signs. So putting two and two together - sandpaper rash, high temp, strawberry tongue and vomiting I wanted someone to look at him so we brought him into our local a&e. He rapidly went downhill when we were there, became quite listless, temp shot up and he vomited. They weren’t the most helpful as were fixated on his temp going down before they had a doctor look at him. He was in there for 4 hours before that happened. The doctor checked his glands, ears, looked in throat etc. she said the throat looked ok but took a swab. In the meanwhile she’s given him antibiotics. He slept beside me last night and spent the night groaning in his sleep. He woke up at 5am and vomited again and then three more times this morning. He’s been tired and seems v ropey then perks up and then is ropey again. It’s weird as it’s blatantly not a stomach bug as there are large gaps between him vomiting. I’m mildly freaking out as I haven’t seen him this ill for a few years. Has anyone had this type of bug before? We are also really struggling to get the antibiotics, we tried them are they taste rancid so can see why he’s resisting but very aware we must get it into him. Just hoping they are missing anything else at the hospital as this is definitely a level of sickness we haven’t seen for a long time. Thanks so much.