Help! Sick Bubba

A couple of questions.

Spencer has a tummy bug and has been vomitting and has diahorea (sp?) his temp is fine. He hasn't had any solids since Friday except a small amount of baby rice this morning (2-3 teaspoons). He is still having bottles but has spewed some of them straight back up. At what point do I take him to the docs? he doesn't seem to be dehydrated and is quite happy but I am a little worried about him getting dehydrated.

Other question is apart from baby rice what else would be good to offer him as solid food? I think perhaps having something in his stomach will help and as he isn't point blank refusing solids anymore I could try something else but I don't want to overload his tummy.

How bout toast? It works for MS so maybe for Spencer?

I guess your gut will tell you when you need to go to the docs but they will probably just say to make sure he is getting fluid. If he has wet nappies, I think that means he isnt dehydrated.

Maybe offer his all time favourite foods?

HUGS!!!!!

To be honest if he is happy and hydrated and no fever I'd give it another day or so before getting a check up.

Hope he feels better soon!

When Sam had her tummy bug she had no solids for 5 days! When she did start eating it was only a little and probably took her a good few weeks to get back to normal
If you are worried you can get Pedialyte from the chemist (cheaper on script $1 for a big bottle) which will keep his sugars etc topped up until he is back to normal.

Poor wee boy - it's really miserable seeing them sick isn' it. I hope you didn't end up with it too though. (our whole household ended up coming down with Sam's!)

Big 's for Spencer from Samantha

Daniel hated that pedialyte. You can just give them watered down e2 according to my doc. It tastes nicer and does the same thing. e2 doesn't have the same high concentration of sugar that other drinks do.

I would take him to the doc, my doc gave Daniel some medicine (don't remember what it was) to ease his nausea which helped him get over his tummy bug much faster.

He went a bit down hill this afternoon and has basically spent all afternoon in bed staring at the wall and then when I got him up he projectile vomitted all over me so I ended up taking him to the doc and he thinks that we have rotovirus.
DH is throwing up as well now. My house stinks of vomit and dettol

His temp is ok but he is slightly dehydrated so we got pedialyte but he doesn't want it, I managed to syringe 10ml into him, although most of it dribbled out of his mouth. He also said that I can water his formula right down to 50% so have done that as well and he drank 40ml.
Oh I tried e2 as well but he wasn't having any of that either
Doc wants us to come back tomorrow if he gets worse and then he will need to go to the hospital to get rehydrated
Doc was happy that he was still quite alert and interested even though quite obviously not his normal self. He did manage a giggle with the stethoscope though, he is sooooooo ticklish.

Eden has a tummy bug at the mo as well seems to be the same one, and i have been told to give her watered down apple juice? apparently the potassium in it is good for them when they are dehydrated, so maybe try that?? for you all!!

Oh poor Spencer and his parents! Hope the road to recovery is a short one. Poor guy, but I bet he loved his snuggle as much as you did, I know I always feel better after a cuddle!

Hey how are you going cuppatea?  You can also get paedialyte/hydralyte iceblocks from the pharmacy.  Theat may appeal more to Spencer.  Or even if he sucks on a lemonade popsicle that a good 73mls.  When we have babies in hospital with gastro, almost all of them go off the feeds (solids and b/f or formula feeds).  But once better go back to normal.  It's horrible.  Big hugs to you

Yeah it was the orange fruit one. We had some success with it, once in his mouth he actually started drinking it so we managed to quite a bit into him yesterday. Although I need to buy a bigger syringe as I only had the 3.5ml one that you get with the pamol, so that made it all a bit time consuming.
He had that horrible sunken eye look yesterday, it was awful.
He drank 180ml at 6am and so far it hasn't come back out so it looks like, fingers crossed, no vomitting for 15 hours so hopefully the other end will stop soon.