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Stomach flu is still hanging on for Kristopher. He is fine for several days, even a week, then it hits again. Driving me absolutely crazy. However, I think I have figured out some of the cause. First of all, in January his white cells were low. They came back to right at low end of normal in February. Since then, there has been various colds and sickness through our house. He had a sinus infection somewhere in that time frame and a week of antibiotics.
So now, this stomach flu has been here for 3 weeks. Tuesday morning he woke up with diarrhea and threw up once. Was home from school and I took him to the doctor. We were sent home with orders to get probiotics and start twice a day. And a stool collection kit. After that appt, he was totally fine, and did not go anymore that night. Then, he was back to school Wednesday. Comes home acting fine. I'm making supper and he comes out crying his eyes out because he "doesn't want to get sick again." I asked if he feels like he's going to be sick. "No..." and more tears. So, he runs to the bathroom. By the time I get there, he has already crapped. So it's too late to prepare the toilet for this wonderful collection for their testing. So then he says he has to go again. I make him wait, do the plastic wrap to do the collection, and it was a false alarm. Take it all down, get busy with supper again, and he goes, without telling me. He says it's normal, no more diarrhea, but still not "normal". If that makes sense. At this point, I offered him jello and he wasn't hungry. Totally not my kid. So, I'm fed up. I call the oncall doctor and wait for the return call. Basically get a moody on call doctor who wants to tell me what I already know. That we need the stool test submitted so they can go from there. There's nothing else we can do since he's hydrated, and bounces back quickly. Try to collect and turn in the sample, and we will go from there. Keep him hydrated, start probiotics, whatever.
So today, I finally find something in stock that will work. Target pharmacy is way more helpful than the doctors office. I was told today that this is so hard to leave him because of the immune system. That the probiotics will definitely help and really is the only thing that will at this point. Probiotics twice a day, then continue once per day till school ends. He needs that help to boost his immunity back up.
I'm also thinking that a lot of this is caused by his anxiety. He has not thrown up much in his life. And very rarely gets diarrhea. So, it's scary to him. He freaks out worrying if it's going to happen, and how bad it will be. Especially at bedtime. He was up till about 11 last night in a constant panic about if he will be sick that night, will he wake up in time to get to the bathroom, will he have an accident, etc. I try so hard to keep my cool and help him through the panic attacks. But, bedtime is my only "me time" since he gets up as soon as he hears me in the mornings. I need my time to unwind and calm down. When he keeps crying and whining about stuff and not listening to anything I say to try to make it better, it wears me down. So around 10:30 I snapped, and said I am not coming back in to help unless he is truly sick and needs help cleaning up. I heard him across the monitor one last time saying "just pee, no more poop" when he went to the bathroom one last time after I went down to bed. So I really don't know what time he went to sleep. And he was up when I came up this morning. Totally over it all. So another recommendation is to start giving him melatonin for bedtime. I hope that will help ease his bedtime worries. It's really wearing me down and I am not as patient as I would like to be. I know the stress and fighting at bedtime will make it worse.
I'm no longer restricting his diet either. He lost 5lbs. He really doesn't have it to lose. When we were sitting at the doctors office the other day, I noticed his ribs look so scary skinny. He's 58lbs, but he is 4'4. Funny how he's become this, from the years of the huge chubby baby....
But back to the diet. No point in taking away what he will eat when he bounces back from this no matter what he eats. There's no fever or any other symptoms. They did a total check up on him on Tuesday and no underlying condition that would have caused this. So it has to be like the pharmacist says and he's just having a hard time fighting it off.
Either way, this thing needs to leave our house now and can stay away forever. I'm so done with vomit and poop drama that I could just scream....
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