My 13 DD has been sick for over a week now. She’s fine but exhausted during the day. It’s after dinner she becomes slowly unwell and ends up violently sick through the night and with a very sore stomach. We took her to out of hours last Monday and she was sent to the childrens a&e who gave her ondansetron, some laxatives and sent her home saying she had gastritis. She was ok a couple of days and then it started again. We then took her to the GP who reluctantly prescribed bucastem (? An anti emetic) complained about the cost and sent her away saying take more laxatives. She was ok last night but again tonight has been violently ill. It always starts with her face flushing about 20-30 mins before she starts to vomit.
She’s never been constipated in her life and she’s not holding down food so I’m not surprised she has no poo in her. Regardless she takes the laxative.
The poor child is distraught. She already has a fear of being sick. When she’s sick she can’t even hold down water, she can drink it fine during the day.
I called nhs 24 and they said they don’t see a child for vomiting unless it’s been 24 hours without water but she’s holding down water during the daytime so she doesn’t meet their threshold. It’s certainly not a&e bad yet. I had to fight with the GP receptionist to be seen on Friday because “it’s only a bit of childhood vomiting” according to her with all her medical training. They didn’t offer any tests.
No one else in the house is sick. Im getting worried and the lack of sleep is started to get to me. Whereas my DD can sleep during the day I’m having to look after my youngest child so can’t. My partner is working hospital shifts so while helpful when here, he isn’t when he’s working or needing to sleep for work.
If anyone has any advice on how to deal with this, I’m all ears.