Should I get ds2 tested for swine flu? And how/where?

[Greensleeves]

he's been sent home from school today feeling sick and has since vomited twice

he has a temperature and says his legs "won't let him walk" and his throat hurts

there is swine flu in other local schools although I haven't heard of it at his school yet (he's 4)

should I try and get him tested, or is it pointless?

OK gals ds has a temperature. Had a slight cough night before last, slight runny nose and a bit tired. He doesn't get ill often and has had contact with someone who had swine flu (she had been back at school two days though and about 9 days after her symptoms started)....should I call the doc or does this sound different to swineflu?

four....he's not that bad...will call doc though just in case

how is your ds feeling pigs?

my ds is OK today, still pale and leaky and coughing but OK

I am getting really demoralised now, I have been stuck in this miserable git of a house coughing and snuffling for AGES now and it isn't going away

I am considering hacking off my head with the breadknife

lol, ds is PEAKY not leaky

thank god for small mercies

Poor you Greeny - how long has it been going on now (I know I could just scroll down and look at the start of the thread )

Ds still has a temperature - it was 39.0 earlier. It seems to come and go a little and he has phases where he's perkier and then more tired phases.

Anyway he was diagnosed as having it over the phone, based on the fact he has a temp and a slightly runny nose and has been in contact with someone who has had it recently.

I've been to collect the Tamiflu but am holding off from using it as I think ds isn't that bad and the doc said to use my discretion.

It was quite funny at the Tamiflu collection centre as the other three people and myself were all clearly trying not to get too close to each other. One woman walked in and went to sit next to me, was almost sat down and then did an abrupt change of mind and went and sat on the other side of the room in the empty bit!!

Well ds seems almost totally better this morning. So I don't know what's going on. Could he really have just had it from Thurs eve to last night?

Or must it have been something else?

Hope the rest of you/ your dcs are getting better.

How is everyone now?
Ds had whatever he had for about 36 hours so who knows if it was swine flu or not.

Greeny - are you all better now?

Growing up you poor thing. I hope your boys start to get better soon.

Bloody hell growingup, that sounds awful.

I've been working on swine flu exclusively for the past 2 weeks and the level of blase-ness (is that even a word) in the general public is astonishing - it's a really nasty condition and extremely virulent.

Hope everyone on this thread, and their poor ill DCs gets well soon

suspected swine flu here too..tis fun
DS[5] started first with temp,d+V and cough, on and off for a week so were told it wasnt. Took him back in to school on fri am to find that a third of his class were off with similair.
DD2[2] started with temp on thurs night and then vomitting by fri. Sat we were told by locum it was swine flu and likely ds has had it. He still has the cough but is otherwise fine. DD2 been given tamiflu and temp has gone but otherwise is still ill. Have a 4wk old dd3 and dd1 who is brittle asthmatic so keeping an eye on them.
DD3 is very snotty but otherwise ok. DH and I have very bad colds but no temps.

blimey, it sounds like a nightmare trying to get treatment

hope you are all feeling better soon

Hi, I'm not sure if ds has a cold or this, he started coughing tonight and has a very slight fever. How quickly does it develop? No one will answer my thread, sorry to ask here.

fluffy with ds it took a day to get going as such but with dd2 it was very quick she went from being fine to high temp sleepy and cough within a couple of hours.

I'm not sure what's going on with the temp. The thermometer worked OK in my ear, within a 10 seconds his temp went from 36.6 to 38.7, his ears are manky though.

He's got an entrance test for a new school tomorrow. I hope it is a cold.

Thankyou Nemo.

I don't think it was a fever, I'll pop back up and check it in a minute. Damn!

I'll see how he is in the morning. He wasn't ill otherwise.

No fever, he's asleep, no coughing either.

He's asthmatic, I have MS so I really hope it misses us.

Sorry to nick the thread.

fluffy would check again in morning as agree that temp was high. Know how you feel I am asthmatic as is dd1 who is 3 and also have 4wk old so still hoping and praying they are not affected but wont know for a week or so really