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Stomach bug in child

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jaychops · 09/11/2024 20:30

I posted in children's health but no replies so far.

We've not had a stomach bug in our house for a while so I've forgotten what it can be like. Also I'm going through a period of health anxiety so my view can be skewed.

DD9 started vomiting almost exactly 48 hours ago. No loose stools (I said on my other post that she hadn't opened her bowels but she has now). No complaints of pain.

Her vomiting has been sporadic though - she can go hours and hours vomit free, and also overnight but then if she moves off the sofa for example or gets up out of bed she can vomit as if it is unsettling her stomach. She's not too bad in herself, she is eating bits here and there and drinking, not that it always stays down but it does stay long enough for some to be absorbed. Is passing urine fine. Is lethargic and spending most of the time on the sofa but interspersed with some periods of energy/laughing and joking with us. Does not appear dehydrated.

I thought gastro bugs tended to be worse for the first few hours then get better, not be up and down?

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Hoglet70 · 09/11/2024 20:44

Maybe it's an inner ear infection if it happens when she moves about.

GG1986 · 09/11/2024 21:32

When my daughter had norovirus recently, she went 20 hours between vomiting. If she is still vomiting by Monday then I would call the doctor.

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