5 days of vomitting

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Hi All

Wondering if anyone can give me some reassurance or if anyone's had anything similar.

My daughter is 17 months old. She had one night of vomitting on Feb 11th, followed by two weeks of a terrible cough. Last Friday she was vomitting non stop for 3 hours. Then Saturday night, vomitting, Sunday night vomitted once. Monday (yesterday) no vomitting, then tonight has vomitted twice ALOT/Everywhere! She does also have runny poo, but it's not watery stools just very loose.

She has recently started nursery at the beginning of Feb and I know it's rife and they will pick things up! But she's not been right since the 11th Feb and now been vomiting for 5 days.

I rang 111 Friday night and took her to the doctor's Monday morning and they are saying just a viral infection/ bug. I thought typically 48 hours and sickness should subside!?

Really panicking and feel like getting back on to 111 or the doctors again tomorrow.

Any personal experiences/advice greatly appreciated!

Thanks

So sorry to hear this. How is your dd in herself between the vomiting etc? Is she drinking fluids? Eating here and there? Wet nappies?

I would take her back to the GP or go to walk in, as anything over 24-48 hours is taxing on the body!

So generally she's just not herself at all. Very quiet and cuddly. She will drink water throughout the day and will eat small bits of food like a banana or some toast. But after vomitting she refuses anything for a good hour or so even water.

I'm going to call the GP again first thing. My friend told me tonight after persistent vomitting her son then got a lactose intolerance due to the gut lining or something. And she has had milk with cereal!

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It's the height of norovirus strain, unfortunately. First time norovirus infections in children take longer to shift than in adults.

My dd started preschool in September and had a similar experience in October it went on and off for about 4 weeks. Has there been any fever with the vomiting?
It's so worrying I can really empathise.

My dr thought the vomiting was caused by constipation as she didn't poo for five days and had no fever. Before she got ill did she poo regularly?

could just be recurrent tummy bugs aswell but it really depletes them I remember how poorly my dd was with the constant vomiting.

is the cough making her vomit? Perhaps get the cough looked at too.

really hope she's ok. Will she take dioralyte?

My DD had a nasty vomiting bug a few years ago. She puked for 5 days and did not eat that entire time. Every drink of water brought on another vom, so we were giving her sips of water by the teaspoon. Slept almost all day.

I was obviously very worried but the doctor was not. He basically said that as long as she was drinking some water and passing urine, the only thing to do was wait for it to pass. Which it did.

@Thatsabignoise it is so worrying! Yes she has had a fever on and off too. The cough seems to have calmed down now.

@puppyparent I'm really hoping it's coming to an end!!

A friend of mine who's ds had vomiting for a long period , his gut lining ending up damaged and he got a lactose intolerance. They had to cut out lactose and slowly re introduce it. I take it this could be a good idea to do anyway? But not sure if this is tester for or diagnosed?

Any ideas on what to try and feed her or what your little ones would eat would be appreciated. She never eats rice anyway, hates it so plain rice out the window. Tried her on plain pasta but refused, she will eat toast, banana, Weetabix or porridge. Has had a couple of plain crackers but isn't too keen. She ate a boiled egg one of the days.

I also don't know if to just not even try her on food today?! Unless she makes a point of wanting something?