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A couple weeks ago the kindergartener's best friend had stomach flu. The week before his other best friend had stomach flu -- but this is a girl I often pick up and get a kiss from whenever I go to the kids' class. I love her not only because of the special bond that she's originally from the same province where my dad was born, but also she's super cute and the only one light enough for me to pick up.
Last past Friday the kindergartener came home from school saying he was tired, which is not unusual as he sometimes needs a nap in the afternoon. After he had some fruit, he napped on the couch as usual -- the kids don't get on their beds unless it's after their shower in their pjs. What was unusual was the length of this nap -- after we woke him up for dinner, he couldn't totally wake and kept laying back on the couch. While his dad and sister thought his sleepiness was funny, I knew something was wrong with him. He complained about stomach ache for a long while until finally throwing up the watermelon he ate in the afternoon. As we learnt from their childhood pediatric clinic, the stomach flu goes away by itself without medication after stomach is empty for some time without food or liquid; any liquid or food after vomiting would keep the virus active and the stomach would churn out anything that goes in, which we did experience in their childhood. Anyway, with the empty stomach treatment, the kids got over it in 1 day during the weekend and went happily to school on Monday.
I fell sick the Monday after a normal day of work. When kids complained about discomfort I didn't know that it involved body ache and everything else other than just stomach. It was so uncomfortable for the whole evening and took a Tuesday's rest to get over the flu -- so much faster than other flus.
And we wonder if hubby will get it like kindergartener's good friend's dad who also was in bed with headache and stomach ache on Tuesday like me...
Last past Friday the kindergartener came home from school saying he was tired, which is not unusual as he sometimes needs a nap in the afternoon. After he had some fruit, he napped on the couch as usual -- the kids don't get on their beds unless it's after their shower in their pjs. What was unusual was the length of this nap -- after we woke him up for dinner, he couldn't totally wake and kept laying back on the couch. While his dad and sister thought his sleepiness was funny, I knew something was wrong with him. He complained about stomach ache for a long while until finally throwing up the watermelon he ate in the afternoon. As we learnt from their childhood pediatric clinic, the stomach flu goes away by itself without medication after stomach is empty for some time without food or liquid; any liquid or food after vomiting would keep the virus active and the stomach would churn out anything that goes in, which we did experience in their childhood. Anyway, with the empty stomach treatment, the kids got over it in 1 day during the weekend and went happily to school on Monday.
I fell sick the Monday after a normal day of work. When kids complained about discomfort I didn't know that it involved body ache and everything else other than just stomach. It was so uncomfortable for the whole evening and took a Tuesday's rest to get over the flu -- so much faster than other flus.
And we wonder if hubby will get it like kindergartener's good friend's dad who also was in bed with headache and stomach ache on Tuesday like me...
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