Happy sunday, ladies.
Really quick check in.
Yesterday wee P refused to eat anything at all. She slept solidly from 9am having to be woken to eat. However, she either refused completely or vommed everything back up. So, we ended up back in hospital.
We were initially told the thrush was causing her pain which was why she wouldn't eat.
However, at midnight a doc had a brainwave and suggested a lactose intolerance. Stupidly, I had not considered my dad when asked about allergies. He is an old fashioned farm man and doesn't talk about having an intolerance or an allergy - he just doesn't like milk. The reality is though that milk causes him major digestive discomfort.
From that they tried soy milk - bottle feeding and syringing got us nowhere so she ended up being tube fed over night. In the end she started vomming that up as well! However, one last vom seemed to wake her up (she slept through a heel prick test) and she finally did hungry mouth.
We are staying in again tonight to see if we can encourage her to eat more than 30ml at a time. It is definitely better than nothing.
She already looks a million times better . . . And I think I had my first smiles! She was so utterly miserable I was convinced she would never smile.
Oh and YW daktarin gel for thrush is the dog's bollocks. Yesterday her mouth was utterly coated - today it is gone!