fatigue and nausea only?

[Anonymous]

My DS is complaining of this. Long time non-napper has napped for 3 consecutive days and threw up last night. No fever at all. Alternates between being perfectly OK for a few hours, then not. What is this? Seasonal flu? Some other bug? Strep? H1n1? Vaccine reaction (we had vaccine 3 days before symptoms began.)? Has anybody had this and can tell me when it ends?

[Anonymous]

How is he now?

[Anonymous]

This pattern went on for about 5 days, today is the first day he hasn't lost it around noon and needed a nap. Never had a fever, didn't have strep. Doc says it's just a virus (not H1n1 or flu). Keeping my fingers crossed that this is the end.

[Anonymous]

I'm going to disagree with your doctor because I think that could be H1N1.

My DS threw up at school on Monday morning. For the remainder of the week, his only symptoms were nausea/stomach ache and fatigue. I assumed it was not H1N1 b/c he did not have fevers (he seemed a little warm at times but not feverish). But he was sick enough that he missed the entire week of school (and not faking b/c on Wed. night I took him to a Halloween Parade - which my kids LOVE going to every year - and we had to come home b/c he said he was too sick to stay, even just sitting on my lap, and on Friday he missed his class Halloween party at school).

I was talking to another mom at my younger DS's preschool, saying I didn't know what was wrong with him and I couldn't believe a stomach bug could last 5 full days with only one episode of vomiting at the very beginning, and she told me her DD had the exact same thing and tested positive for H1N1. Usually the primary symptom of H1N1 is fever, but not all cases present with fever.

So, I can't prove he had H1N1, but he is a robust 8-yr old and I have never seen him knocked out this badly for this long from a stomach virus. Those are usually 24-48 hrs, or there's more intestinal stuff going on, like continued vomiting, diarrhea, etc. H1N1 is sweeping through our elementary school like wildfire and several kids in DS's class had it this past week.

My DS was fully recovered on Saturday morning (so day #6), and my DD woke up that same morning with an obvious case of H1N1 - she has the classic high fever, cough, sore throat, body ache presentation. That doesn't prove she got it from her brother and she could have easily gotten it at school, but I also think it's possible she caught it from my DS.

In any case, my ped. isn't seeing them or testing them unless they're extremely sick and is not giving out Tamiflu to non-high risk kids. When I called, though, they said almost all the flu that's circulating is H1N1 (almost no seasonal flu cases yet) so if it seems like flu, assume it's H1N1.