Discovery Home & Health

cir****tances have not gave me chance to sign up officially yet but i put my ticker up so i can't talk myself out of it.
starting at victoria enbankment in notts hopefully.

Ems x

Damn it! lol.
spoke to soon about Alicia being better. just took two of us to change the biggest runny nappy ever
sorry for the T.M.I

Ems x

oh no! poor thing, it's awful...

Presuming my ds has the same thing, when did the bottom end start after the sickness??

Just spoke to a nurse on the phone and she has told me he is unlikely to dehydrate from just being sick and to keep giving him drinks, even if he is bringing it back up, enough of it is being absorbed before he is sick again.

So not alot else i can do for the poor little man, but now very wary the other end may start going soon too!

x

well she finished being tom and dick on wed morn officially. then thought she was getting better, and hence...
the runny nappies started this morning
a doc at NEMS tld me she was fine, she was well hydrated and then 30mins later down at A n E and they were telling me that she WAS dehydrated
so like i say if you do get worried about him, don't hesitate to ring them again, at the end of the day no one knows a child better than their mother

Ems x

hi there, sorry for butting in, my ds had the same thing a few weeks back and like u we ended up at a&e as he was dehidrated but hew asnt kept overnight just given dioralite (sp) he was vomiting for several days around 4 if i remember corrctly was laid up on sofa didnt eat a thing very watery poo (sory tmi) just poured out of him nappy changing every ten mins bum was blistered and sore the nappies started about mid way through the illness and carried on long after the sickness had stopped didnt turn solid till he was eating properly

after 5-6 days he was back running around with the od sloppy nappy it is just a bug and they do get over it but its so had to watch ur children like this and if u are worried at all seek medical advise

but all they will tell u is its a bug they cant do anything for them which is very frustrating for yourself, just stay at home keep giving fluids forget food completly unless they ask for it just give water or dioralite

hope this helps

get better soon babs!!

thanks kia x

thanks fo the advice Kia, looks like someone won't be going back to Nursery on Mon i do have some common sense..unlike some other fellow parents there.lol

How is Bailey getting on after his op he had the other week?

Ems x

I think if more people kept the kids in when they are that ill the bugs would subside, selfish people send them back to school when they are ill and dont give a s**t about the othets getting ill. I know that there seems to be a lot of the bug about and I just hope none of mine get ill with it cos I have OCD about sick and germs and the thought of the sick that long and that much with 3 kids omg I would run away, scares me so much. I hope the 2 week break from school now will help with the bugs spread and make it a lot less.

Wish all that are ill better. xx

afternoon!

Well ethan not been sick since 12:30, so fingers crossed, he's looking lots better too.

Eldest due home from school soon and then they are all off for 2 weeks now too, thank goodness!

x

bailey is doing really well hun back at nursery on monday yey!! lol so normal work pattern resumes lol

lorraine is right u must keep ur kiddies indoors when there ill it just makes it spread when ur out,

not being sick is a good sign looks like its starting to ease up a lil for ur lil one bubly

ok. tht biggest nappy ever we had was the only one ive seen so far ...maybe she was flushing it all out her system in one go
usual tantrums at bedtime tonight so she must be on the mend? (fingers crossed), nice to have her dad there for a change though, one quick cuddle from Daddy Bear and Alicia was off to noddyland I didn't really mind tonight as I had an assignment to do.
your right, people do need to stay in, i've kept my little one in why she has been ill, apart from the casualty trip, it's drove me and her nuts but it's the best place for them

Anyway off to bed now before i've spoken too soon! lol

Ems x

bubbly - just wanted to warn you of what happened with us last week. Jess is nearly 2 started being sick sat t time and was sick literally every 20 mins til sun lunchtime . tried out of hours docs and said was fine but keep fluids up not evven given diarlite. she went to bed at 530pm sunhadnt been sick since lunchtime so i thought she was on the mend. she slept all night woke 7-8 back asleep wke 11-12. we got to the point where she couldnt keep her eyes open and had slpet about 22 hrs out of 22. so she'd had no juice cos she just refused and closed eyes again she just wasnt with it ata ll. we took her back to out of hours docs who said shes ok but you can take her over to see the paediatricain IF YOU WANT TO. obviously we did nd within an hour she was on a drip! imagne if we had of said we wouldnt!! just letting you no cos she wasnt sick again so we thought she was fine but she wasnt she was really dehydrated. main sign with jess was just liflesssness and no wee and no tears when crying. we left hospital 2 days later aft she was eating and drinking a little. it was wen we got home that the horrendous dihorrea started. we went and bought some dairalyte then just in case.x

thanks for that tiamaria.

im glad your little one is on the mend and your right it's not worth imagining if you didn't take her to the paeditrician.

personal opinion i think out of hours docs aren't worth their weight in salt, every time i've been to NEMS they have told me one thing and I have always ended up at A n E with Alicia a short while later, where there HAD been something wrong.
My fav one yet was when she 9 months old and had a temp of 39.2 (after calpol and nurofen) and they told me to go home as she was fine said her tonsils were fine her ears were clear,etc ....within the next few hours and various tests / x rays at A n E she had a severe chest infection plus tonsilitis

sorry for the extra long post.
hope everyone has a lovely day

Ems x

Tiamaria- thanks for the info hun, god that must of been horrid for you! hope lil one is on the mend now.

Well ethan still ok since 12:30 yesterday, drinking lots and even had a bit of toast this morning and is running around with his little sis!
It's amazing how quick they bounce back.
I'm still on mega watch out for the other end starting
His older brother came home from school yesterday with the same cough and saying he had a headache. He didn't really eat dinner, but so far so good!

I just hope if it's gonna go round us all, that it does it sooner rather then later!

Ems- i've not 'officialy' signed up for race for life yet either, but am waiting for my friend to organise her work friends joining us.
Ours is in July in Exeter. Can't wait!

Hi Girls.

Sooo sorry to hear your babies are ill!!!!!!
Meryn was the first to get it in our house and then we all followed week by week. Meryn was really ill, we took her to A&E THREE times because she was so bad. Doctors said that she was moderatly dehydrated, so not bad enough to keep her in - thank god!!!!
She had all the signs and symptoms that all the others have had, plus when she woke up one morning she had fluid coming out of her ears!!!!!
Back to A&E we went.
I had Meryn weighed this week and she had lost 1lb in weight because of this bug - horrible!!!!
I am soooo with you all about kids not going to school/nursery when they are ill, I work in a nursery school and that is were Meryn caught it from. They should stay away for up to 48 hours after the LAST lot of sickness and runny tummys!!!!!!!

I really hope you all get better soon

Take care

Paula