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- From: Theresa Jarosz Alberti <sapphire@wings.micro.umn.edu>
- Subject: Re: Diarrhea and vomiting
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.040607.28110@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:06:07 GMT
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- In article <24112@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> Sandra Mergen,
- smergen@luna.dpl.scg.hac.com writes:
- >My 2 year old has had a viral with vomiting (twice, during the night)
- >for the past week. There is a viral going around in our area for a
- >month or so now. My husband and I have had it for 2 weeks each. We
- >are SICK of it.
- >
- >The doctor says no milk products for Melissa, just Gatorade, and
- >the BRAT diet. Well, for those who have a 2 year old, you can
- >imagine how difficult it is to restrict milk, and whatever else
- >they're used to eating. My daughter doesn't eat much as it is.
- >
- >Is anyone else going through this that can tell me how they handled
- >the fussy 2 year old, the throwing up in the middle of the night,
- >the leaking diapers. I am SOOOO tired.
-
- I know what you mean. I have 15 month-old twins who have been going
- through the same thing for the last two weeks. It is really getting old.
- I think I should buy stock in Gatorade because we've been going through
- gallons of it!
-
- We are getting really adept at changing crib sheets and blankets in the
- middle of the night, learning how to clean up vomit from the carpet. Ug.
-
- One woman friend told me her doctor advised her to take her son off all
- foods-- just Gatorade-- for 24 hours straight, to give the stomach and
- intestines a chance to rest. We did that for Gennie and Leo yesterday,
- then started them today on small amounts of bland food today. So far
- some firm stools and no vomitting. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
-
- Good luck to you!
-
- --Theresa Jarosz Alberti
-