i am starting to get panicky about ds now. He is 2.5 and was sent home from nursery last thursday a bit unwell and with a temperature. By friday he was worse, saturday a bit worse still and on xmas eve he couldn't get his head off the pillow. The out of hours doctor predictably said it is a virus. It's now a week later and he is still sleeping 17 hours a day and just sitting on the sofa the rest of the time. His temp is fluctuating a bit but i only had to give him calpol once yesterday so its not too bad. He is eating a little and drinking fine. He doesn't have any other obvious symptoms other than a complete lack of eneregy. We are goimg back to our doctor today and i spoke to the nurse on the phone this morning. She told me this sounded unsual and so now i am panicking. One of his second cousins develpoped type 1 diabetes at this age last year and having now googled it i find that the early symptoms can be mistaken for flu. Could this be it? what the hell is up with him? what else means you have no energy at all for a week but no other obvious symptoms?