citymama
09-14-2010, 01:45 AM
TMI alert!
She looks and seems normal to me, a little subdued. Yesterday we were at a street fair where she got a smoothie from Jamba Juice (20:20 hindsight - don't buy your kid a smoothie late in the day at a street fair). On our way home, she kept saying she needed to throw up. She tried and tried but couldn't. She didn't eat dinner and felt asleep early. She woke up in the middle of the night complaining of a tummy ache - her tummy was hard - but she went poop and tummy became soft again and she said she was better. But since then, every time she eats or drinks anything (and she has had an appetite today) she says she needs to throw up - doesn't actually - or go poop. Her teachers called from school today saying she was complaining of a tummy ache and trying to make herself throw up.
She was in a good mood and played all evening, did art, ate a good dinner. Come bedtime - she's again trying to make herself throw up, complaining of a tummy ache (around the belly button). Refuses bedtime milk, which is unheard of - she lives for milk. DH asked her how bad it was, bad enough to need to go to the doctor tonight? and her answer was yes. No fever.
When I probed, she said she was excited to go to the doctor tonight and get an Xray (she is remembering a previous ER visit where she got an Xray and they gave her a stuffed toy). But she also says that her tummy ache actually started on Saturday, when we were at dinner with a friend and that it is worse tonight.
So - potentially 48 + hours of tummy ache, maybe getting worse. Take her in to ER? Wait and watch? Of course, we're worried about appendicitis - nothing else seems ER worthy. Any BTDT advice?
She looks and seems normal to me, a little subdued. Yesterday we were at a street fair where she got a smoothie from Jamba Juice (20:20 hindsight - don't buy your kid a smoothie late in the day at a street fair). On our way home, she kept saying she needed to throw up. She tried and tried but couldn't. She didn't eat dinner and felt asleep early. She woke up in the middle of the night complaining of a tummy ache - her tummy was hard - but she went poop and tummy became soft again and she said she was better. But since then, every time she eats or drinks anything (and she has had an appetite today) she says she needs to throw up - doesn't actually - or go poop. Her teachers called from school today saying she was complaining of a tummy ache and trying to make herself throw up.
She was in a good mood and played all evening, did art, ate a good dinner. Come bedtime - she's again trying to make herself throw up, complaining of a tummy ache (around the belly button). Refuses bedtime milk, which is unheard of - she lives for milk. DH asked her how bad it was, bad enough to need to go to the doctor tonight? and her answer was yes. No fever.
When I probed, she said she was excited to go to the doctor tonight and get an Xray (she is remembering a previous ER visit where she got an Xray and they gave her a stuffed toy). But she also says that her tummy ache actually started on Saturday, when we were at dinner with a friend and that it is worse tonight.
So - potentially 48 + hours of tummy ache, maybe getting worse. Take her in to ER? Wait and watch? Of course, we're worried about appendicitis - nothing else seems ER worthy. Any BTDT advice?