Children with flu support thread

[EightToSixer]

There seem to be a few of us looking after children with this really nasty flu at the moment. I thought it might be nice to have a supportive thread about it.

I'll start, DS (6) is so very poorly with it. Temp of 39-41 since Friday and no food since Monday morning. He's lost so much weight, is very dehydrated and has a horrible chesty cough. He has a pinprick blotchy rash all over his torso. He has seen GP twice who says its a nasty flu and may take 7 days for fever to reduce.

Today he has missed his Christmas concert and s feeling very sorry for himself. He has no strength, I have to carry him from room to room and his sleep is a disturbed mass of delirious dreams and sleep talking combined with waking up every 30 minutes.

I have a major conference that I've organised tomorrow, so DH has taken a day off work for that and it will be the first fresh air and socialisation I've had since Friday.

I just wish I could lick my fingers and make DS better, he was already skinny, lost more weight with norovirus last week and now with the flu is a rake :(

Bump. There must be more people on here with poorly DCs?

Yep, me too.
Ds2 has had am awful cough/temp/runny nose for what seems like weeks...
He has lost weight, nit really eating much, sleep disturbed.
So sorry your boy is so unwell.
It sucks :(

Whole family down with it. I had it first....in bed for five days for first time since I was a child. Now three DC's and DP have it. Its bloody grim at our house. We have had vomiting, aches and pains, coughing and snotting, with temperatures. Nobody is eating anything but I have spent a small fortune on Lemsip and Calpol.

I think DD 4 and DS 6 have this.

We took them both to the Gp yesterday after weeks of being up and down health wise.

Their glands are up and tonsils swollen, aching all over and headaches so bad that DD was literally screaming with it yesterday. Coughing, sneezing and runny noses. DS is so weak that I'm having to carry him to the loo. Hardly eating anything although they are both drinking plenty of water thankfully. Temps are uncontrollable even with calpol and Ibuprofen back to back.

Waited for almost 2 hrs to see GP yesterday for them to say it's a virus, but then our GP always says everything's a virus.

I think my 6 year old dd has the flu... Yesterday she seemed to be just getting a cold but tonight has a fever and has eaten nothing. She woke up earlier and was having hallucinations. Very worrying but I have previously been told that this is not unusual for children and elderly people.

Think my youngest (7) just starting! Temp since yesterday...terrible cough today and really not himself! Complaining of bad headache! Kept him dosed up all day but doesn't seem t b touching it! Husband away to top it all too!