It's ok I can explain it now I have relaxed my hackles now that he is safe at home - I was feeling like all of these people were just wanting the gorey details of a car crash IYKWIM...

SO basically what has happened is in the past 3 weeks he has had a couple of bugs, plus they think an underlying glandular fever - related virus, poss CMV, and his little body has switched into starvation mode bcos he was constantly sick and not eating what he usually did. This meant that his body was using his good fat stores and his muscles to keep going. This process creates acid as it happen. In a normal person big or small this isn't usually an issue bcos when you are sick you usually keep your fluids up and that flushes it out plus when you are well your body reverts to normal. Unfortunately Jake got a gastro virus on top of it all last week and this completely dehydrated his body thus an acid overload and all of his systems were shutting down. Still not sure if there is an underlying metabolic problem we have more tests to do in a week or so.

The diet is basically until he has put back on the 1.6kg he has lost in the 3 weeks which may take us up to when our next paed appt is in 8 weeks.

So it may just be the fact that his body just has never fully recovered from all of his bugs and we just need to get him back to top condition or there may be something further. In the meantime he is out of daycare at least for 8 weeks then we will prob look at family daycare so there is less exposure to less people. Not sure what that will mean for me at work and us $$ - I think I will need to hand back my car but will sort that out this week - but you really get just how secondary that is when your kids are gravely ill IYKWIM.