Quote Originally Posted by CrazyLea View Post
Aww sorry to hear about your boy Ems . What is wrong with him?
Hope he gets better soon x
Quote Originally Posted by Chloe O'brien View Post
Jeezo Ems so sorry to hear that Nathan has been unwell. Have the hospital been able to identify what was wrong with the little soul. You must have been at your wits end. Glad to hear he is out of the hospital and hope he makes a speedy recovery.
He had/has rotovirus.

Started with sickness and diaroea on Friday and over the weekend, come Monday, his soft spot was sunken, his eyes were sunken and he looked for want of a better description, like an alien. He'd lost a kg in weight since Thursday, which equated to 12% body weight, which they then worked out in turn was 8% dehydration apparently. Spent Monday in Intensive Care on an IV fluid drip, hooked up to monitors etc. Had the BP of a 5yr old. Came out of PHDU (Paeds High Dependency Unit) on Tuesday afternoon and remained on the drip until Thurs when he finally started having milk again. He's still not well, still has very runny nappies and if it carries on, we have to go drs and get some lacto free milk for him for a bit until his stomach lining recovers.

The docs said they were extremely worried about him and a little longer things could have been totally different.

Apparently, rotovirus can make an adult spend 7-10days constantly on the loo and feel like you've gone 10 rounds with Mike Tyson, so how it must have made a 5 month old baby feel isn't bearable for me.

But he is on the mend now, which is the definite main thing.