Puking Five Year Old - When to Seek Medical Attention?

[NotQuiteCockney]

DS1 is 5, generally healthy, but quite thin.

He was ok this morning, but has since been sent home from school as he was poorly. I brought calpol, gave him some, he vomited it out. He had water in the taxi, threw that up, too.

He's in bed now. He has thrown up again, from having more water. I've enouraged him to sip water, not gulp, but obviously the puking is worrying me a bit.

When do I take him to A+E?

At least the character DS2 loves from Shrek is the donkey, rather than his "nake"/"pider" love objects from Monsters Inc. I say, "at least" because the donkey stays around and doesn't get beat up, so DS2 gets less upset ...

huge sympathy nqc. i had a day a couple of weeks ago when i kept ds home as he'd been sick 4 times in the night, dd was with me anyway, & i succumbed to yucky sickness literally the second dp left for work. it was grim. i spent the day in a heap on the sofa. as ds got better he had to tend to me...

hope you're ok for tomorrow night.

I hope so too!

I don't feel that ill, and I don't think I'm about to get sick, although I'm eating vomiting-friendly food (e.g. no popcorn).

Ok, DS1 still hasn't really eaten anything. I should just trust his instincts, I guess? He's drinking water. He's not throwing up. I do have to just leave him to it, don't I?

He's fairly thin to start with, but not alarmingly so, imo.

Ok, I'm going doolally here. DS1 is ill, well, he won't move really. DS2 is warm and weird and cranky. I am warm and weird and cranky. I haven't actually left the house today, and only barely left the house yesterday. Aaaaagh!

I just want to go to sleep.

DH should have been home by now - he was meant to be at a parent-teacher meeting with me at 4:45 in town, and since that's cancelled, shouldn't he be here?

Maybe he's decided to go to the meeting on his own, without telling me?

He's not answering his phone. Or returning calls or SMSes.

And of course we've run out of the ice lollies that DS1 is living on. He's not interested in eating actual food today, which pretty much guarantees he'll wake up hungry in the night again. Gah.

Will normal corner stores have not-gross ice lolly options?

I guess it doesn't matter, as although I could maybe cope with leaving DS1 alone for a minute, DS2 is not an option for that. I guess I'll see if a neighbour is in, to sit for me ...

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I went out with DS2, leaving DS1 at home alone ( - but he is 5, and pretty sensible, and i was gone for 5 minutes at most). Got Calipo ice lollies.

I think if I wanted to make ice lollies, I'd have to:

• juice something to make juice
• find the ice lolly shell things
• have the energy to bother.

Going out reminded me of how ill I feel. I hope it's just tiredness, or mostly that. Surely if I was going to start throwing up all over the place, I would have started by now, given I was exposed to it all yesterday?

Oh, and DH has got in touch, at least. Gah.

Oh NQC

I am glad you are still all hanging on, more or less

shall I get my neighbours to chop down some more things and illuminate them. to cheer you up a bit?

Yes please! Or you could buy those wobbly things? That would be ace. (Don't buy them and send them to me, though!)

I am ok. I will get some sleep.

The problem is, tomorrow night, DH must sleep, thanks to V important work things, so we need this sorted by then, or I will have to deal with it all on my own.

DS1 is showing signs of recovery, though - has had a bit of ice cream, and is now having white bread. He's also trying to decide if he's going to school tomorrow based on day of the week (i.e. will there be fish and chips at lunch ) and my plans, so that's a good sign. If he's scheming, he's recovering! DS2 is eating ok, too.

Oh, that all sounds good, except the part about dh sleeping

Look either you want the wobbly things or you don't. You can't shilly shally around and say you want me to have them. I am going to have to get tough about this

(you may strike it lucky, though....dp was quit taken with them as well and thinks we could get some to put in ds's bedroom "to scare the shit out of him if he tries to get up in the night" )

what are 'wobbly things'? sorry to interrupt but can't help myself

pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease tell me

Sorry, was busy. See here for explanation of wobbling things.

"THEN THAY JUST WOBBLE"

still love it

dp and I have been arguing about whether a man or woman wrote that blurb, what do you reckon NQC? I may have to ask the seller a question just to find out (and hope for some more insane enthusiasm)

My vote is on a man. Something about the tone?

Also, the name is "wayne", which I know isn't a total givaway, but still ...

Also, he is a man with a van. See here . Most men with vans are men. I think?

What is up with your ebay sleuthing skills this evening, Frances?

Why were you not on this thread?

I am quite proud of myself, I am sleep deprived, and I pigged out on chocolate ice cream this afternoon out of despair over being trapped in the house with two mad ill children.

But for dinner tonight, nobody really wanted to eat, and normally then I just eat rubbish, but no, I made a salad with roasted seeds on top and everything.

Oh, and DS1 was well enough before bed to start plotting for his return. His current plan is to have a few more days of ice cream and television and lying on the floor, but to be well enough to return to school on Friday for fish and chips.

I suspect that if he's well enough to scheme, he's well enough for school. As long as DS2's mad weird bike thing is fixed tomorrow, my life will be manageable.

Thank god, we had a much better night. Everyone slept. DS2 grumbled a bit. Nobody had any meds. DS1 will go back to school today, as he ate a bit last night, and ate this morning, and is very lively. DS2 will probably go to the co-op.

And barring any major catastrophes, I will get to go to the NE London meet tonight!

How are things today NQC?

Oh, everything's fine today. I'm a bit tired (bad night, then late night from stupidity, then late night from meet). Both boys are fine now, though. I still don't know what was up with DS2 on Tuesday, and I'm startled that a bug made DS1 that sick, but only hit the rest of us mildly, if at all (the squits, if that).

How are you doing? Do you want to come visit over the holidays maybe?

Oh, there was a huge thread yesterday on the "would you leave your 5-year-old alone while you popped out", but apparently it wasn't about me leaving my DS, but someone else.

Whether it's sensible or not, it's certainly a popular thing to do .

Oh, yes, we'd love to come. I am not sure how much free time we have after all our various family commitments but if we can find the time that would be lovely.

I saw that thread and was going top go in with all barrels and say "this is not someone you know, this is about a post you read earlier" . I thought it was mean. I avoided saying so on the thread in the end because I thought 1) it would be more likely to kick off and 2) you were less likely to see it if I kept my mouth shut. If the person who started the thread is reading this, it was an underhand thing to do IMO.

Well, I'm not that bothered. And it could have been someone she knew? Who knows. I'm not staying up nights about it, god knows.

Anyway, it was amusing that 90% of people came on saying "omg never never never", and a few brave souls came on saying "well, why not?".

As usual, I guess.