Help! Gastro and DD not wanting to drink

[Mum2SweetCs]

Hi All,

Our family has got Gastro for about a week now and DD doesnt seem to be getting any better.

She doesnt want to eat at all and today her nappy remained quite dry (one nappy for the day) Everytime she drinks or eats (even a little bit), it all comes out and she refuses to drink the hydrolyte that the doc has told me to give her.

Im so worried she will dehydrate because he lips are already crackly.

How do i get her to drink hydrolyte? and stop her from drinking milk (we have been caving in to her constant crying for milk even though the doc said that should be avoid)

Help!!

Thanks

[Junglemum]

If she can't keep ANYTHING down I would take her to the drs. A dry nappy and cracked lips sounds like she is well on her way to dehydration, which can be very dangerous for little babies.

Have you tried the gastrolyte icy-poles? Or any icy-pole really?
I had a similar problem this week, DD wanted to be BF but kept throwing it up. I gave it to her anyway as i figured she MIGHT get some hydration from it and the throwing up bit wasn't distressing her too much.

[Mum2SweetCs]

Ive seen them at the pharmacy but she wont eat anything that is cold these days as it is very cold around here.

DD is 2 yrs old.

Do you think it is okay to give her flat lemonade instead? She seems ok with that.

[Junglemum]

I would rather give my DD flat lemonade than her get dehydrated. So i say yes it's ok. But just try let her have small sips, she is less likely to bring it back up.

[Little Chicken]

Water it down though if it is full sugar and not diet, cause believe it or not the sugar concentration can actually pull water into the gut and make diarrhoea worse. I do agree with junglemum though one not very wet nappy and dry cracked lips sounds like dehydration already so maybe you should get her checked out. Just keep offering her small sips of fluid constantly and see how you go.

[Junglemum]

Gastro in Young Children

http://www.mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/pu...H-6040-ENG.pdf

[Mum2SweetCs]

Thanks heaps Junglemum for that
I was looking at this emedicine website which was useless.

Poor girl, i know i shouldnt be giving her milk but she is always crying for it. Its always so much more painful to see your child in pain than it is when you're in pain =(

[black_rose]

Flat lemonade, juice anything she will swallow would be good for her at this point. Just keep an eye on the next nappy, hope there is some improvement.