Jonah - what to do with stomach flus

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- a child normally shouldn't feel " full " from an IV.

However, this is the process that is written in our " rough draft

emergency treatment letter " .

For a child who is recovering from a bad stomach virus, this is what

Dr. Harbison recommended. Again, make sure to go over this with

your own doctor, as your child or another may have complicating

factors.

After gut rest for at least 24 hours, and the IV with D10 .... you

continue the IV and begin clear liquids. IF the child can maintain

clear liquids -- move to something like chicken noodle soup. Try

some crackers, toast. Wait 6+ hours to ensure they can hold this

down.

IF the child can maintain this, you can lower the IV to D5, and

monitor the blood sugar levels and ketones. Do this during the DAY,

not the nighttime. Now try giving the child some regular but still

relatively bland foods. Foods, preferably carbos, that they would

eat at home. Pasta with butter, pancakes, etc. IF they will eat

these, and hold them down, then try turning off the IV, but still

keep the child there for a couple more hours. Monitor the ketones

and blood sugar during these last couple of hours, and ensure that

the child will still eat safely.

A bad stomach virus can mean a 3-day hospital stay -- 24 hours gut

rest, and 2 days of reintroducing foods again.

The good news is that the " old " way (at home) meant that the child

would often lose 2-3 pounds and it would take 3+ months to regain

it. With the above way, if you get them into the hospital and on

the IV very quickly in the vomiting stage, although the child may

lose the weight while in the hospital, the weight will often be all

the way back on within days after being released. Benefits

definitely.

Good luck! Salem, MAGIC Foundation + 's mom

> Hi everyone, this is , Jonah's mom. Thank you all so much

for your help and support. I am home to change clothes, but need to

head back to the hospital. Jonah is being so brave, but he still

will not eat a thing. He did drink a little juice. My question is

how do the kids start eating again if they are feeling full from the

IV. The pediatrician thinks we should lower the dosage of the IV so

he gets hungry again, does that sound right? What about the

Periactin, should he get back on that? I'm feeling a bit anxious

right now and on top of it all he has a nurse today who is not

too " with it " . Any help is greatly appreciated. Stacey, thank you

so much for your call.

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