For those catching it, respiratory flu has been pretty bad this year, long lasting.
(The respiratory flu shot has nothing to do with the stomach flu).
The stomach flu has also been pretty bad this year. Long lasting. Like stomach symptoms on and off for weeks, with periods in between where stomach symptoms seem to go away, and then it comes back again. I have heard of multiple trips to the ER.
It is really unfortunate that the word flu is used for both stomach and respiratory. A lot of people, including medical people, hear the word "flu" and assume one or the other. Teach your kids to always put the word stomach or respiratory in front of the word flu for clarification.
Youngest was up all night puking
(At college)
Really terrible. Like 7 hours.
I found where I had actually written it.
This is the sort of thing your mother or grandmother has to teach, or you just don't know.
Toddlers and small children puke and then are super thirsty and then drink too much and start puking again. This originally came from a doctor. Obviously check with your doctor. And fine tune as needed.
And I am talking measured amounts,
Not sips.
Can use a plastic spoon if they are at college.
At home I use a toddler medicine measuring tube.
We wait 3-4 hours after last episode of vomiting.
If feeling a lot better, then start with 1/2 teaspoon of room temperature, either slightly flat sprite or gateraide. 1/2 teaspoon every fifteen minutes if no vomiting.
If make it one hour (four 1/2 teaspoons),
then increase to 1 teaspoon every fifteen minutes.
If make it through the next hour (four 1 teaspoons), with no vomiting,
then progress to 1 1/2 teaspoons (which is the same as a 1/2 tablespoon) every fifteen minutes.
At the end of that hour (four 1 1/2 teaspoons), if still have not vomited, and have been okay for 6-7 hours, and can progress to 1 tablespoon every 15 minutes.
At that point can move to SIPS. Unless it is a kid who cannot do sips, and then just keep increasing measured amount.
If at any point in that process, they vomit, the clock/whole process starts over waiting another 3-4 hours.
