Is dd2 ill?

[Marne]

Dd2 (3 next week), has been off her food for a few days (dd2 loves any food), she is eating but picking, she has had a cough on and off for the past few weeks (worse at night), in the past week she has been waking in the night and getting up at 5am but this morning she slept until 8.15am (unlike her), she also fell asleep on the sofa today at 3pm (unlike her), she has been a little bit grumpy today but has still been playing etc.

Dd2 is non-verbal with Autism so i cant ask her 'whats wrong?'.

Dd1 had a tummy bug just over a week ago but i would have thought if dd2 was going to get it she would have had it by now?

There is also chicken pox about at her play-group so maybe she's coming down with that.

Or could it be a chest infection from her cough?

you have my sympathies - dd1 is ASD too, and it is always veey hard to find out if she is feeling unwell.

form your post, if dd1 was experiencing all that, I would think she was coming down with something.

one thing I have found is that dd1 tends to "brew" her illnesses for ages before actually being ill, and so is off colour for up to a week beofre the illness (ear infection/cough/tummy bug) actually arrives

She tends to get ear infections, i hope its not a tummy bug (she rarely gets these), i might just take her to the gp in the morning to check her ears and chest.

Could constipation cause her to feel ill?

I would rather she came out in spots than be sick (i have a sickness phobia).

The reason i ask is she has just done a no2 (which was very hard, sorry if TMI) and now she's dancing around the room and eating her dinner which has been sat on the table for the past 45 minutes .

constipation can make you feel generally unwell, and quite lethargic too, and interestingly a nutritionist once mentioned to me a connection between thelungs (and thereofre coughs) and bowels, when I was asking about dd1's everlasting cough last winter..

I am slightly worried about her bowels, she seems to go from one extreme to another, i have heard that ASD children are more prone to bowel problems (not sure if this is true?). She eats well (for a ASD child) so gets a good mixture of foods.