The 16mth old baby has it and is so, so miserable. Feeding her her meds is also making her and me more  miserable.

She must have caught the bug from me (remember my hacking cough?) but in her case the virus is attacking her tummy instead. She woke up with a high fever yesterday morning and the runs. It just continued the whole day and is still at it today.

I am dosing her with fever meds and lacteofort (both available from the pharmacy) and Solaray's Multidophilus (available at GNC). But it is a nightmare feeding it ti her each time. Sigh. So I mix everything together and literally hold her down with one arm and squirt the concoction into her mouth.

But even as she struggled against being fed her meds (as all the others did at this age), interestingly, when they turn 2, the children all love taking meds!

I am not for taking meds unnecessarily but in this case, the fever is making her so cranky that I had to get some meds into her system. And obviously, she has no appetite for anything. Keeping her hydrated is also a challenge as she refuses even her favourite plain porridge!

I hope this passes quick. I haven't been able to do much except hold her the past 2 days except when she naps. And seeing her in such discomfort is heart breaking. The cute thing is that all her siblings keep coming up to offer her their condolences and the 3 yr old was heard muttering a prayer under her breath this morning.

This is her 1st bout of illness since she weaned at 15 mths. Everytime a toddler is ill like this, I wish I were still nursing! Well, her immune system has to do it's own thing.

Say a prayer for her if you remember. Thanks!

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Posted by Delci

How's she now?

Posted by MamaLim

No more fever thank God! But still going 5 - 6 times a day. I think it's the dreaded rotavirus bug. Lacteofort doesn't seem to be working this time round. Tried to give her biscuits but she refuses so I offered her the Del Monte bananas - supposedly good for diarrohea. She ate that very well - at least something in her body!

But everytime she eats/drinks something, she goes. Poor girl. She has lost so much weight over the past few days. Sigh.

Thanks for asking.

Posted by sammi

your kids must be special, or you've just been super-blessed. Bc our kids don't like medicines at whatever age.

Posted by Delci

Poor girl...

What about smecta? Have you tried that on her? also available at pharmacy. What is written is that its for acute and chronic diarrhoea.