Help!!! I think I've poisoned my DS!

We went out last night to my BIL's 50th and I gave DS one of the frozen meals I give him when we're not cooking (chicken veggie soup) before we went out. He stayed home with grandma and she later called to say he refused his last milk bottle (he has done this with her in the past, he has no probs having the last bottle usually, unless the time between dinner and the last bottle is short therefore he isn't hungry). Anyhoo, he's been sick for the last two weeks with a cold, mainly coughing and lately the runny nose started (no temp or being off food). So when we got home at around 11.30 mum was trying to settle him as he woke up but was unable to do so. He often wakes up around 10.30-11.30 and I am usually unable to put him back to sleep and end up taking him to bed with us. He was farting away like a trooper and was pretty fidgety when I took him to bed with us, and then around 2 am he started coughing and then he appeared to be choking on what I though was a bit of mucus (I though he brough it up whilst coughing) but it was the chicken soup. The poor thing freaked himself out and tried to swallow it when his body was trying expel it. I eventually settled him but he was really tossing around in the bed and he again woke up coughing at around 4 am and this time it was this yellowy liguid he vomited. We just woke up at 8 am and he again started to cough with more vomit. I can hear this gurgling sound in his tummy when he's coughing. What could it be????? Do you think the soup was off? It's been in the freezer for a few weeks but I have done the whole cooking and freezing thing before mainly for emergency meals and he's been OK. Or do you think it's gastro?? The coughing doesn't appear to be any worse than in the last week or so. Should I take him to the doctor?

TIA!

sounds like he may have gastro

I think that it is likely to be the cold. When they constantly swallow mucus it eventually comes up and anything in the tummy will come up with it. If he seems really ill, or it is on-going, or he is having trouble breathing (like he may have inhaled some of the vomit) then i would get him checked out.

Keep an eye on him and see how he goes, sounds like gastro. Hope he improves soon and is feeling better.

Regards,
Dianne

Like Krysalyss, I think it's most likely that he was bringing up mucus and the soup came with it.
It's pretty common, Pie woke up coughing the other day & vomited up a heap of milk but was fine after & since.

I would just keep an eye on him, see how he goes today. Maybe if he's still vomiting tomorrow or if it's really persisten through teh day today, get him checked out. Whatever the cause, be it a tummy bug or food that was off or a cold, you need to keep an eye on his hydration, make sure he is getting plenty of fluids. If he's lethargic, has no wet nappies or can't keep any fluids down you will need to get him checked out sooner.

Hope he's feeling better soon :hug:

Thanks ladies :)

He hasn't thrown up since this morning, which is good. I first gave him a rice cracker, that was OK, then I gave him some weetbix and he was fine with that. I gave him a big drink too. He coughed some more but a smaller cough, it's almost like he's too scared to cough hard, poor love. He's pretty clingy and not as happy as usual but not to bad TBH, babbling away to himself and I even got a few smiles, so I will keep an eye on him and hopefully he won't throw up any more. I'm going to throw out the 3 little serves of the chicken soup anyway, I'll make a fresh batch next week and only freeze a handful of portions. Thanks again for your advice and well wishes ladies, I really appreciate it :grouphug:

Sounds like the mucous more than the soup hon. DD is not a spewy kid at all but she has spewed when she's had terrible congestion from head colds.

You know how gross you feel when you keep swallowing mucous, it makes you feel quite sick and you'd just like to get rid of it. Kids tend to keep swallowing it and often it gets too much and comes back up.

As for not wanting his bottle, he's probably worked out the milk only makes the congestion feel worse, not to mention he wouldn't be interested if he felt off anyway. DD was like that when she did her last big mucous spew (from a head cold) a few months back.

I hope your DS is feeling better soon hon. He probably feels a lot better clearing the mucous.

My son has vomited up everything in his stomach while trying to cough up his mucus. It's horrid to watch, isn't it? Their stomachs get so irritated coughing that up everything comes.

I doubt you've poisoned your son or there was anything wrong with the soup.

Hope he's better soon.

Thanks Taurean and FabFiona, it does sound like the mucus doesn't it? I'm feeling much better now thinking that maybe the soup is not the culprit! lol. He's sleeping now, hopefully he's coughed up the bulk of it.

I'm almost certain it's the mucous from what you've said :)

Hey Taurean, is there anything I can do to make the mucus come out in a nicer way???

I'm on my phone hon so can't see your ticker - how old is your DS? You can get cough medicines designed to break up mucous (I used one with a bad head cold a few months back and it helped) but the earliest kids could take it would be the usual 2 years. I'm not sure if they make one for kids specifically.

DD has always improved after a good spew though :lol: Often it's in our bed which is just lovely! :sick:

Hi hun, yeah DS is nearly 18 months so don't think I can give him anything yet. And yes the spew did end up all over our freshly changed bed! lol Yesterday he had brekkie and that was OK, spewed lunch and then had a few chips (yeah I know, but he kept them down) and some fruit in the afternoon when we went food shopping, and then hardly touched dinner (kept pushing the spoon away). He did drink 3/4 of his milk bottle which was good. Overnight he didn't cough a single time but he's really grumpy this morning and I don't know if to take him swimming (it's the make up class from Saturday). We're off on a holiday on Sunday so I don't know if I should keep him away from swimming/gymbaroo etc this week in case he gets worse again :dunno: