I need a bit of advice as DS (2.7yrs) has never had a tummy bug that hasnt come and gone really quickly but we seem to be in the middle of a doozy or it could be something else I'm not sure.
It started on Wednesday night, after dinner (didnt eat much) he was having trouble going poos on the potty and was getting a bit distressed, then said he was feeling sick (knows the feeling from car sick episodes)and I said maybe it was cos the poo was giving him sore tummy as he hadnt pooped in a day or two. We went upstairs to bathroom and while I was cutting his nails he vomitted in the bath, everything from that afternoon onwards (we had eaten the same food all day and I was fine), after showered/dressed I made mistake of giving him his night time milk but it came back wet and fast very soon after. Later that night he woke a couple of times to retch but it was just sticky stuff that came up as he had nothing left in tummy.
Thursday he ate small bowl of shreddies and tiny bit of milk, nothing for morning tea, half a corn thin for lunch, dont think he had any afternoon tea and for dinner happily ate two poached eggs but not the toast and a pear for pudding. I think he did a poop on Thursday night. Then up for shower and he vomits in the bath again.
Friday he ate same breakfast, cornthin with avo for MT, lunch was some hot chips and a couple of mouthfuls of sandwhich as we were out at restaurant, a couple of plain biscuits at afternoon tea time and for dinner I offered him some sausage and he said no thanks and had no dinner. But roll on 6.45pm as I'm getting him ready for shower and he vomits again.
Saturday he has a small bowl of cheerios for breakie (daddy's turn!), a piklet for MT, some cornthins for lunch, ate a kids fromaige frais and breadsticks for afternoon tea and for dinner had a ham and cheese toastie followed by an apple and mango rice pudding cup thing. Did three poops before hopping in the shower, out the shower, getting dry, cough cough PUKE it all comes back again, lots and lots of vomit.
On each day he has drunk a fair amount of water and his urine output is about half what it was prior (yay for TT and being able to know the answer to that!). He has been quite tired and lethargic but sometimes full of beans and normal toddler, not really played with toys or anything but still chatty and cheeky on and off. Mostly wants to watch TV tho TBH but no fever and not lethargic enough to make me worried, just low energy which I'd expect from being poorly.
Does this sound like a normal tummy bug or do you think it could be something else? The only thing in the back of my mind is that without nappies over the past few weeks he has had easy access to his boy bits/bottom (soooooooo much willy fiddling its not funny but I was working on new 'rules' for that behaviour with him!) and while I'm being really careful with handwashing before meals its possible he's touched his bottom or something and ingested germs??????????
Obviously I'd take him to the Dr but its the weekend and I really dont think its worth a ridiculously long wait at A&E as he appears generally okay so will wait til Monday I guess.
In the meantime does this sound like a nasty tummy bug or something more serious?