both DDs are ill :(

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Since Saturday all they have been doing is throwing up, not eating and when drinking water throwing it back up, got high temp with ear ache, belly ache, taking them the Doctors today,

What a way to spend the half term, poor them

oh poor them get some ice pops and give fluids that way as they dissolve slower and dont cause the stomach to heave it back up

hope they feel well soon x

Wouldn't icepops make them feel worse with this weather, (dumb moment lol)

oh no, there's so much of this going around, dd2 had it last week and ended up with scarlet fever on top of the sickness (lasted 5 days), dd1 and i came down with it on Sat night, i was just ill for 24 hours, dd1 was ill for 48 hours but now on the mend.

Hope they feel better soon and manage to get few healthy days before they go back to school.

Get some dyralyte (sp) from the GP, i had to stay up for a night giving sips to dd2 to rehydrate her , how old are they?

GP told me to crush up orange lollies and give them a little at a time.

no ice pops is recommended by gp's when children vomit up everything its the heaviness of the water when drinking makes you regurgitate yet ice pops dissolve slower so fluids go in with no heaviness to stomach

it makes no difference ice pop or cold juices its the dissolving and getting fluids into system that they are wonderful for

dd1 has lost so much weight since saturday, she is only small anyway, 6yrs and only 15 kilo, she looks about 14 kilo now

Thank you both for your replies

thank you bubblagirl, i will go and get some now

also boots do great vitamin called tonic to give to children during and after illness giving all the relevant vits that are lost through illness not 100% but i think dioralyte is only given with diarrhoea but you can ask gp mine said no as only sickness some gp's may give it though

Its horrid when they are so skinny, dd1 was like a twig before she was ill (only took her to the GP last week because she's so under weight), dd1 is 6 and still wears age 3-4 clothes , luckily her sister is chunky and has recovered fully. This is the first day dd1 has started to eat things (other than toast) so now i can start to fatten her up again.

You have my sympathy. We arein the same boat ds1 started puking on saturday and dd and ds2 started last night. I feel so sorry for them as they all had chicken pox over the Christmas holidays too!

We were given dioralyte for just sickness.

We give dd1 Minidex Tonic from boots as she tends to get low in iron.

Hopefully they will recover in a day or so, i felt like death on Sat night but after 24 hours most of my symptoms were gone (apart from feeling tired), the worse part was the stomach pain which felt as bad as labour pains.

Marne- Dd1 6 years Dd2 2 and half years
Ds 4 and half years, he only threw up twice, he is fine now, just the girls,

We had a letter from school about chicken pox last week,

Same age as both my dd's (well dd2 almost 4). Dh is the only one in our house who hasn't come down with it.

Mine havn't had chicken pox yet so just a matter of time.

i'm dreading them having chicken pox, I had it 4 times when I was a kid,

Well, I'd better get them ready now for the doctors, take care,

Good luck at the doctors xxx

How did it go at the GP's?

hiya,it's just that virus that's going round, she said the bug should be gone by the end of the week she has lost one kilo tho

Hope she feels better soon, dd1 has picked up a little today but is now stopped eating again , i'm too scared to put her on the scales as she will be upset if she's lost weight.

It is a nasty virus, quite a few people have got it, my friend and her little girl have just come down with it.

Yeh it is nasty and so contegious (not sure if spelt that right.

What area are you from?

We are in the SW, most of the children at dd's school have had it or have it (very small school).

How are things today?

Dd1 didn't eat yesterday but today is bouncing around asking for food and has already eaten 2 slices of toast, 4 biscuits a packet of sweets and some crisps .

wow :O thats great.

These are both fine today aswell, DD1 is back to her bossy self lol.

Glad they are feeling better, they seem to recover almost as fast as they come down with it.

DD2 is up again throwing up, she was fine earlier seems to have come back.

My older two are better now but ds2 and I can't seem to shake it off, i've got a banging headache today and feel like i'm going to be sick again and ds2 puked again last night and then got the runs. This is horrendous isn't it? The pains as well OMG they are like contractions On Tuesday night I was seriously counting back the months to see if there was any way I could possibly be in labour and have not realised I was up the duff!

Finally the sickness bug has gone. DC are all better, shame they missed out on half term fun
Wonder what they will bring home next week?