19month old with food poisoning??

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I know it may sound silly but i am crying with lack of sleep and worry.
dd went to a childrens party yesterday. when i left her there she was well and happy, when i picked her up she had started to projectile vomit and now was gagging uncontrollably and blood tinged gunk coming up

i paniced and ran to casualty. there she was gagging evry 10 minutes till midnight, had dirolyte settled a bit. they said could be food poisioning or a virus. her stomach is empty now and she can only hold down small volumes of drink but wants more. she has refused toast, breadsticks and cheerios.

she has had 1 big runny nppy and two small ones. she is playing in between bouts of vomiting, which have been more spaced out today. only if i let her drink more than say 3 ozs of dirolyte i1 on hit.

anyone experienced this. how long will it go on for, how long is it okay for her not to eat. its been nearly 24 hours now since she had food that wasn't thrown up.

You left a 19 month old at a party, without you?

My dd has recently spent three nights in hospital with severe diarrhea and febrile convulsion. It was a virus, but she neede to be there fro a drip and intravenous paracetamol to keep her temperature down.

Don't worry about her not eating, but she needs to keep fluids down. Try very small amounts of fluids often. If she doesn't keep this down take her back to hospital.

it was my sisters 2 year old and my other sister had a hen day on same day so my sister said leave her with us at the party and go to the hen day. i was reluctnat but got convinvced all would be well since she sees my sister every day and is at her house a lot. i guess it was stupid in hindsight, but she would have probably eaten the same things had i been there!

no it wasn't stupid, you were leaving her in the care of family. I didn't mean to sound judgemental;

It may be absolutely nothing to do with the party foods - as I said - my dd (who is 18 months) had a severe virus. My older dd also had the same virus, but wasn't nearly as ill.

If your dd is playing that's a good sign. If she seems lethargic or drowsy, take her back to the hospital.

has she got a temperature?

she is sleeping now thats not lethargy is it? she hasn't had a temperature at all just runny poo and vomiting if you allow her to drink to much at once.

I'm assuming it's her normal nap time (my dd is also asleep). That's normal. Lethargy is difficult to descibe it's lack of energy when she's awake, which doesn't go away even if she's had plenty of sleep.

there are some awful tummy bugs going around atm, sounds like its more of a bug than food poisoning to me.

i've just had a bout of it myself last night, as did my next door neighbour and her dd too .

ime, with kids, don't worry about food for now, as long as she's having some fluids she'll be fine, even if it seems like she's bringing them straight back up, it will help. once she's showing interest in eating, i think the rule is b.r.a.t, as in banana, rice, apple, toast are the safest things to start on

lucykate - that's a good acronym.

bananas are particularly good because they contain potassium, which will help replace what she has lost through the d&v.

It does sound more viral to me too, food poisoning takes longer to present I think. I'm sure there's nothing you could have done even if you were there.

For me I've always started to reintroduce food that's really bland, toast mainly - DS1 usually gets crackers/ryvita with some weak juice and we take it from there. In a few days some yoghurt might be good just to help on the way to restoring the bacteria in her gut.

My ukranian colleague swears by plain boiled rice so I tried that last time and it worked well. She says that's the stock food where she's from for poorly kids.

can't take the credit for b.r.a.t. though, i read it one here when dd/ds had the same thing

doctor in casualty gave me dirolyte, how much should she be drinking per 24 hours?

there are only 2 of the 6 sachets left and each is 200ml fluid. so she has had about 800mls over 24 hours but i would say bought up about half of that.

also when diroolyte runs out can i try to give her ribena or milk? or go and get some more?

she has vomited twice in 4 hours now so some improvement. it was every 15 minutes last night.

You can get Dioralyte (or own-brand equivalent) in any pharmacy and it's handy stuff to have in the house anyway.
If you can't get it, weak full-sugar Ribena is the stuff - don't offer milk or anything dairy till 12h after the last vom - stick to b.r.a.t if she wants to eat.

i would not give milk as that might cause more vomiting, very very dilute juice,maybe, but water for preference....give her a flannel to suck on in the bath, clear fluids probably best until the vomiting has stopped...and dry toast ...

poor little thing , such a worry

what had she eaten at the party? sounds more like a bug to me...

none of the other kids are ill, she had chicken which was friedn, she hasn't had that before??

my main thing is how much dirolyte shold she be having, just keep offering it all day and night? or 3/4 sachets per waking hours?

offer as much as she wants but only in sips, not gulps