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Baby with Gastroenteritis

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agraves · 12/04/2010 11:52

Our daughter, Gabriela, fell sick 2 weeks ago. She initally developed a high fever, vomiting and severe diarrheao. We took her to the GP, who advised giving electrolytes and Calpol, and that it would pass in a couple of days. The next day, her sickness was much worse, and Calpol was failing to control her fever, so we took her back to the GP, who refered her to the Paediatric A&E at Northwick Park hospital. The Paediatrician there said to continue what we were doing, but that we could also give Ibuprofen to help control the fever. The fever broke after 2 days, and she seemed to get better on the third day. However, from the fourth day her diarrheao started deteriorating. By the sixth day she was pooing every 5 minutes, and not keeping milk down at all. We put her on electrolytes only, but she was rapidly becoming dehydrated, so we went back to the GP to get a private referrel for Dr Eltumi at the Portland Hospital. He admitted her, and put her on IV fluids for 24 hours. He also advised us that she had become temporarily lactose-intolerant, and to replace her formula with lactose-free formula (SMA LF). After she was released from hospital, we started to re-introduce lactose-free milk. This started at 65% concentration, then increased over 2 days to 100%. However, in the last 3 days, her diarrheao has again been getting worse. It now has the colour and consistency of green mucus, and comes whenever she has anything in her stomach, often with as little as 2 minutes between episodes. We had hoped that the diarrheao would improve in the week since she was released from hospital, but it seems to be going in the other direction.
We have seen 5 doctors (GPs), one A&E, and 2 specialists, and no real diagnosis yet.
Anyone has experienced anything like this?

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Goingspare · 12/04/2010 14:19

Sorry, can't help but bumping for you.

I hope she gets better soon.

beammeupscotty · 12/04/2010 20:31

Poor you and LO. Its obvious that G's digestive system has been completely overwhelmed by this nasty bug. She'll need careful and slow re introduction of normal gut flora under supervision, you can't manage this alone. You need to go back to the Paeds otherwise G is going to deteriorate fast at this rate. Good luck

foggerty · 12/04/2010 21:00

When my DS was 6 months, he started vomiting violently, and couldn't keep anything down. We saw 5 GP's in 5 days, and they all said it was nothing serious, it was just a bug and to just keep feeding him as normal, some said to give milk, some water, we had so much conflicting advice, it was awful. I knew it was something more serious than a bug as normally you vomit less as time goes on, it as such an awful yellow colour, so frightening, anyway, the sixth time we took him that week luckily he vomitted in front of the (out of hours) GP, who referred us to the Paed unit at the hospital with suspected
intussusception (kidshealth.org/parent/system/surgical/intussusception), however after being rushed to a hospital 200 miles away (our hospital didn't do paed surgery), it was actually diagnosed as a Meckel's Diverticulum. (www.patient.co.uk/doctor/Meckel's-Diverticulum.htm)

I hope I haven't worried you, but the symptoms sound so similar, I thought I would pass on my experience.

Lolbilly · 12/04/2010 21:06

Sorry have no experience but wanted to send hugs, hope she gets better very soon.

agraves · 14/04/2010 12:58

Thank you for all your comments!
We appreciate your help.
We are still waiting for the exams results, a soon as we have them I will update this post updating you (my dear "mums" friends).

She is now on Neocate. The rash in ber bum has improved, she is no longer in constant pain and the diarreoa has imporved. However, the taste is terrible and our little one has now started to reject her bottle, yesterday she drank only 2 bottles in the entire day! We have an appointment for tomorrow with the Pediatrician. Thank you all so much!

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