 my poorly lil girl
Hi Ladies,
I am in some state of distress, Emily has been ill today, not able to keep anything down at all, not even severly watered down juice. I rand devon doctors and got her an appt at the out of hours gp and he said she has gasteroenteritious (sp?) i feel so helpless cos i cant do anything for her, im scared that she is gonna get dehydrated.
I feel so guilty, she woke at 6 this morning, i heard her cough (nothing unusual there as she has had a persistant cough for the last week or so) then she cried a little before going back to sleep. I was going to check on her but as she went to sleep again i thought there was no need.
Anyhoo, she woke again at 9, so i went into get her, and noticed she had been sick. Thought it was due to the earler coughing so didn't overly worry about it, gave her a bath, got her dressed and took her downstairs for breakfast.
She had 2 slices of toast with a thin smear of butter (her fave), and half a cup of juice, when she had finished that, she was in her highchair watching fireman sam, and brought her breakfast up! no gagging no warnng, just bam, up it came, now coupled with the earlier vomiting i got concerned and called devon dr's and when they called back, she said give her some fluids, and is she keeps that down try her on some food later on, so i gave her a quarter cup of juice and waited, Emily bimbled into the kitchen with her daddy and it was like someone had just opened a tap in her mouth, all over the floor  So i called devon dr's back, took her into see them and thats when he told me that, he said in rare cases they have to admit some children to rehydrate them, i don't want this to happen to Emmy, she is so little and would not understand, and we hate hospitals.
Can anyone give me some advice on what i can do for her to make her keep at least SOME fluid down? She has had the same nappy on since 9am this morning and its still essentially dry!
Help, please?
Distressed Karen&Poorly Emily
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