My son just had a virus with vomitting.  This was only his second in 7 years.  Our doctor had always instructed us to carry the solu-cortef, but has never deemed in necessary for me to learn how to give it.  I would have time to take him to the ER or doctro’s office.  And she has given us Phenergan for vomitting.  But here are the loop holes and thought I would share what happened with me. 

At 1am the vomitting starts, you keep thinking that HAS to be the end of it and time ticks by.  I called the pediatrician to confirm if I should give the phenergan now and wait for what?  The on call ped said the virus "going around" has 3-6 hours of vomitting and should wait an hour an see if stops on hit own.  Well, it did and at 7 am, the ped calls to check up, and we had been asleep for 2 hours.  Only then to find he has fever.  Well, in goes the stress dose, and fever meds......and up it all comes back.  then to decide, well, do I go to the ER or do I take the shot to the ped?  NOW do I give the phenergan....but I know it makes them sleepy and I won’t know if something more serious is going on.  Well, even the call to ped nurse requires me to have her speak to the pediatrirican....she does not get the circumstances.   We go to the ER, and although he looks as perky as one can be with a vomitting virus, attempts to get an IV in for fluids is very difficult.  Two weeks later he still has bruises from the blown veins.  So, when our ped visited to touch base that night and all was well, I told him all my concerns in this.  And now I know, for sure, that even if he is vomitting for a short time, he will put him on IV fluids.  I try very hard to keep things as normal as I can for my son and not overreact.  I remain calm, no matter what (except when he got kicked in the leg at a soccer game but that is another story! :-)     My attempts in trying  not to over worry  ended up being very dangerous.  Even though I knew better, I kept watching him and did not want to over react.  And who cares if I over react!!!  Lesson learned.    BUT the point of the story is....if I knew how to give the shot....I would have and he would not have gotten dehydrated.  All his metabolic blood work came back normal-so in that respect he was fine.  But looks can be decieving and I should have known better than to judge by looks alone.