DD is 3 in a couple of weeks. She's also tiny, the smallest in her group at nursery, and always has been. She's come down with Hand Foot and Mouth this past week. She's been ill with it for a few days now, and we thought we were past the worst of it until she went really downhill yesterday morning, very whingy, clingy, crying over the slightest thing, and struggling to eat. She has an ulcer on the tip of her tongue, which is huge, it looks about half a cm across, so across a lot of the tip of her tongue, and it very obviously hurts every time she eats or drinks. As a result she is basically refusing all food and drink, and she's drunk very little yesterday and today. She's having calpol and nurofen, but she's still miserable.
I have tried offering her drinks in a cup, a bottle, with a straw. Milk, water, squash, even lemonade (which she is never allowed usually). I've offered ice and ice lollies. She is flat out refusing them all. I'm not so worried about food, she is usually a good eater. I just would feel a lot better if she would just have some fluids, and I suspect so would she. Does anyone have any tips? I'm getting pretty worried.