Gah.. Manky tonsils, asd and sensory issues ..

[TheArsenicCupCake]

Ds arrived home from his dads last night with tonsilitis.. We have been to gp..
I am having major issues with getting him to drink!
he will not touch the jelly I made.. Ice poles are too cold! he has managed to sip his way through a small glass of chilled water... That is it..
I'm nagging like hell.. Because he has a high tempreture and his pee is far too dark for my liking.. ( I know this because he used the loo 4 hours ago and didn't flush.. He hasn't Been since!)

< bangs head against wall>

Oh and GP helpfully said .. Make sure he keeps his fluids up!.. Gahhhhhhhhh

Oh poor ds, tonisilitis is the pits. Hope he's better really soon.

When ds had tonsilitis they said to just give him anything he would drink. Obviously it would be helpful if he would have some cold stuff to help reduce the temp, but any fluids are better than none iyswim.

When ds2 was in hospital with pneumonia the only thing he would drink were cartons of Tesco's Apple Juicy Water, so that's what he had. In fact that's all he had for - small sips of juice. He didn't eat or drink anything else for seven days. They even said we could give him coke or milk-shakes if that was what he wanted, as long as he drank something regularly. We found out what he wanted to drink by buying lots of different drinks and leaving them next to his bed for him to choose from.

I have resorted to saying " drink" with great frequency!
We are slowly sipping..

I sound like a parrot!

Slowly sipping is good enough, that's all ds2 could manage and it sustained him through encapsulated pneumonia.

Make sure you keep drinking too or you'll be in danger of losing your own voice at this rate.

:o moose!

The poor little ( rather tall and gangly) mite just can't cope with any other sensory input today.. The curtains are drawn.. The house is quiet.. I've cooked dinner ready for the others.. But have had to open the back door and windows to let the smell out.. And he's not bouncing about or even flapping his fingers!

Aw, its horrible when they are poorly and stop all their usual annoying habits isn't it. You spend half your life dreaming of a quiet calm, non-flappy/bouncy five minutes and then when you get one its because they're ill and you just want them back to normal again. Who'd be a Mum eh?

My house is also quiet at the moment, as dd is asleep and I am just steeling myself for the usual school pick-up chaos and inevitable 'chat' with ds1's teacher.

Extra fun on Mondays as he's always exhausted after our swimming lesson.

Awwww moose.. I hate the chat at the end of the school day! Ds2 is up in secondary now.. So the chat has turned into the phone call just as I'm walking in from the school run!

Sometimes I just wanted to yell ( at the primary school).. Yes Im not suprised he did x y and z... You are telling me nothing new!

And yes I'll have one more day of still and quite ds.. Then I'll have the bounce back! :)

Might be a mad suggestion, but try getting him to wrap himself tightly in a duvet and also wiggle his toes, whilst drinking something. It distracts our brains long enough that we don't focus on the hurty throat sometimes.

Phew! No chat today, other than to tell me he tried to carry everything out of school, including his swimming trunks, towel, googles and hat without putting them in his bags first. She caught up with him juggling in the corridor.

Sadly though, he has just told me how much he is struggling with swimming, he just can't hold his body up in the water (core strength again). Typically, we have just been told he won't get to see an OT for at least 12 months.

Amber thank you!

He eventually got some sleep by wrapping himself in his duvet.. Has just woken up.. So I'll try the wrapping toe wiggling drinking on him :)

moose trying to get an OT is awful!.. but thank goodness no chat!

Glad he's managed to sleep. How is he feeling now?

Is he on antibiotics? We had a hell of a job getting ds2's into him, they are either sickly sweet or vile and chemically tasting. Yuk!

well he's due some calpol so he's feeling pretty bad.
ahh yes Abs .. He's had two doses already.. :(

Have you tried an ibuprofen chaser with the paracetamol syrup? They're different drug families so safe to mix. Worked well on my dd's tonsils (that was after I brought to A&E thinking she had meningitis )

NHS direct or GP out of hours service should be able to tell you his 'true' maximum dose from his weight (tho you might need a syringe if it's y.5 ml).

thanks folks..

Amber my god woman you are blooming wonderful!

We have a new stratagy! Toe wiggling .. :) thank you

i'll leave the ibuprofen for tonight before bed.. :)
I know he's not well at all.. But I think it's the whole sensorything that is making it hard for him to cope... But foot/ toe wiggling is good ..

It's amazing what we know

Easy really - his brain is listening to the "ow it hurts" message from his throat. Duvet-wrapping plus toe-wriggling means his brain has to listen to a whole body's worth of other skin signals...which is kind of distracting...so it can't hear the 'ow my throat hurts!" signal for a while.

DD1 had loads of tonsillitis before she had her tonsils out. We found that taking her dose of paracetamol by sipping it slowly took away enough pain for her to drink for a while. I didn't use the 6 plus Calpol - just the normal one because she could have more to trickle down her throat. It worked directly on her throat and soothed it really well.

I'll be keeping amberlight's wiggly toes for future reference too.

Well ds has seriously perked up! Still off school and not his usual bouncy self.. But he has spent all day sorting through his starwars collection..And he is even wearing clothes today :) So that is a big improvement!

Amber you manage to explain to us what our dc's can't .. And ds has taken on board toe wiggling whislt drinking today.

Now just to see how he copes when the other two arrive home from school and the house isn't so quiet !

Am really pleased he's feeling better TACC. Sounds like he's had a nice quiet day to recharge his batteries as well.

Very impressed with him wearing clothes whilst poorly too. Ds1 would live in his pjs if I'd let him. In fact he has just come in from school and put his straight on - as usual. I have to practically wrestle them off him in the school holidays and in the summer he told me that he thinks clothes are a waste of time and everyone should just wear pjs.

Hope he gets his bounce back soon.

:o at wearing clothes is a waste of time!

ds the more sensory overload ds has the more clothes he takes off! ( luckily this is now just in the house .. And he's learnt to keep his boxers on!)

I sometimes wonder if he would like to use a floatation tank