Urgent help needed - do I take DS to A&E or not?

[Mumpbump]

Ds has had very watery stools since last night - pale yellow in colour, last one slightly greenish. He is usually a good eater and took 8 oz of formula this am. Since then, he had 1.5 oz of formula at lunch with a little water and 2 oz of formula at 18:00. He has had lots more watery stools - probably about 8 or so today - but the front of his nappies are dry.

I spoke to NHS Direct who got a doctor to call me. Before the doctor rang, ds fell asleep at around 18:15. The doctor has suggested taking him to A&E, but he is still asleep and I don't know whether it is better to just leave him to sleep or wake him up and head for the hospital.

Am tending towards waking him up to take him to A&E, but I am scared that they will insist on giving him fluids intravenously which is obviously going to be a pretty horrid experience...

Any thoughts on whether I should take him or leave him to sleep?

But ng is better for the child and less drastic so iv is used only when really needed

DD would disagree on ng being less drastic than iv! She's had iv fluids a few times and a ng drain tube once. In the two days the ng tube was in, she only said one word 'toilet' when she needed to go, approx every four hours. I spent that entire time next ot her hospital bed thinking that my lovely, lively daughter would never re-emerge

Sorry for hijack.

IME ng is vile. It's much worse having it put down than having iv in. I've had ng myself, dd had one for over a year. Yuk.

Hope he's much better today mumpbump.

He was a bit better yesterday - took an oz of watered down formula here and there. Chucked up last night!! Ugh! But had a clean nappy this morning which I thought was a good sign. He's been very tired - up for 2 hours, then asleep for 2 hours yesterday and in bed now - but he had another watery nappy so I took him to the doctors this morning.

She said to give him dioralyte (sp?) and no milk. She said it sounds like we're pretty much there if he went overnight with no diarrhea, but that perhaps giving him formula was just delaying his recovery because of the fat content. So I'm going to just give him dioralyte and water today and hopefully that will restore him completely.

Thanks for posting!