reflux in an older child?? anyone experience

[hermykne]

i am clutching at straws here
dd has vomitted every night,for 8, anytime from 10 - 2 am, and its only once inthe day,
we all had the vomitting bug last week for 24/36hrs me and dh.
she got it but has continued V at night.

went to doc today- his diagnosis was it was just taking longer to clear.
gave me motilium solution,
she got it tongiht and she just vomitted everything up.
her appetite has got better since last week but no great shakes.
i now have come up with reflux - tea at 6, then bed , lying down , food comes back up?
wil be on t docs in the morn.
but anyone any experiecne

One of DS friend has it but has had it since a toddler he is 10 years now and takes a tablet each day and it seems to work

was it like my dd? at night, i think the lying down has somethingto do with it

It sounds to me more likely that she is taking a while to shake off the bug and when she lies down at night the acid from the food in her stomach agravates and makes her sick.

Older children (and adults of course) do suffer with reflux, (and yes, in my experience, it can be bad at night) but I think you would have had other symptoms by now.

Continue to give the Motilium. Give it about 15 mins before food and at bedtime (up to 4 times a day) dosage as you were advised. It helps to move the food through the body faster so there is less sitting in the stomach to come back up.

Good luck. And let us know how she gets on...

naswm, thanks for that, yesterday shehadnt done a wee since the morn or a poo for 2 1/2 days (diarhea prior to that) - excuse the details, byt the foodobviously isnet getting near the intestine???
ringing the doc now at 9.
Ta

poor little thing. Def sounds like a bug now you mention the D, but do cdall them for advice. Keep on with the Motilium. It will help. Good luck

No DS friend has it any time of day

but with this tablet he is better but still has time off school with it sometimes

rang doc this morn and suggested reflux (at night, only one vomit and lying down) and he hmmm'd and said y es a possibiity but unusal. so i put forward what i found last night on web, after exteneded vomitting reflux can occur, so she is having the infant gaviscon at the mo as well as the motilium. he didnt sound to annoyed !
she ate like a horse today, so i'm hoping tonight theres no vomitting.

if not it may be hospital tom

no vomiting last night, and i put it down to the gaviscon, i definitely think there was a little bit of relfux after all the vomiting last week.

doc seemed happy this morn.

When DD was about 18 months she caught a nasty bug and was sick every night for a whole week, was really worrying at the time but it was just a bug.

Sympathy to you