Hi
Paedialyte gastrolyte glucolyte  ORS  there are lots of different names for it depending on where ever you are

Powerade and Gatorade and these type of drinks can work but the levels of sodium are so much lower.....
Dehydration needs to replace the sodium as well as the electrolytes
This is why they taste sweet....

It is one of the best things on the market for dehydration for anyone
Good for the kids after sports on a hot day too.
If your child does not like the taste then they don"t normally need it
When a child is dehydrated etc they cannot taste the salt because the body needs it to survive...it tastes sweet....if they are not starting to dehydrate it tastes disgustingly salty.....
This is from our CF specialists
The chemist have about 5-6 different flavours now.....
Our paediatrician has told us if she cant keep the glucolyte etc down then we take her to the hospital.....
Luv Deb

Hello everyone,

Once again thank you all so so much for your ideas. I truly appreciate every one.

As for  an update, Riagan took small amounts of pedialyte throughout the day yesterday and luckily was able to hold it down. By last evening, she had some bananas and held them down as well.  She has not gotten sick since about 1:30 yesterday afternoon. Only woke twice through the night. Had some cereal this am and is in fairly good spirits though not back to her old self yet, i'm hoping the worst is over. So thank you everyone, It means a lot to me when I am going through a rough time with her and I don't feel so alone in it when you guys share ideas.

Take care, and i'll keep you all posted as too how the recovery goes....:-) Being a mom is hard work even though I have 2 others you still worry just as much when they are sick.

Kristen

Whilst lemonade (flat) ginger ale, icy poles and all these things are good, they are also very sweet, and not recommended by doctors, especially for babies! they also, in some cases will induce vomiting! Water when having a tummy bug is too bland and the others are too sweet! So to avoid dehydration, i recommend( passed on by my gp) mixing one third of apple juice with two thirds of water.... either this or hydralite ice blocks!
These things are not too sweet and not too bland.... also a hydralite icy pole is designed for gastro and prevention of dehydration!
I have found the apple juice mix to be perfect for me!
Also if your child is on solids, wait 24 hours at least before you give him/her any solids! It will give stomach time to settle down!
In this time i recommend (Also through a doctor) only a bland diet such as mash potato without the milk as this will upset the tummy again, or sao biscuits and vegemite!
I hope i have helped some! I hope the little one gets better soon!

Babies dehydrate very quickly so icy poles, very dilute cordial or juice is great but if it goes on for too long without stopping -take your baby to a hospital and ask them to check baby - no one will mind and its not too much trouble!!!

Flat lemonade always works a charm in our house. Hope your little one gets better soon.

When my son went through a weeks worth of continuous vomiting & I felt he was starving to death through not being able to keep anything down, a wonderful little Asian nurse at my local child care center suggested I boil some white rice & give him the 'starchy' water to drink as it would help to give him a feeling of fullness in his tummy & would not encourage any more vomiting. He was about the same age as your baby & it certainly worked for him - Hope this helps & that he recovers soon

Diluted apple juice, when my son was 10mths old he had gastro and was terribly dehydrated, i took him to the doc and he told me that when they are dehydrated they need the sugar from the apple juice as water can further dehydrate them. So i did 1/4 juice and 3/4 water and gave him small sips every 10 mins he improved in an hour, although if she cant keep any fluids down its best to take her to the hospital so they can put a drip in. Hope she is better soon.

HYDROLITE think thats how you spell it can get it from supermarket or chemist in liquid drink or icy poles and to get vitamins aswell back into your baby's system you can also get from the chemist these special lollypops they think that they are cool

But i do recommend the hydrolites i had the liquid and icypoles both worked and they stay indate for the next time(and i used it for my husband aswell and it worked so for all ages)

keep it up just water water water your baby probably dosn't want any thing else anyway.

when my daughter was 4 months she had vomitting adn dyorhera i was very worried as well as nothing would stay down apart from water, i took her to hospital (as it was sunday) and she hadn't eaten all day, and they told me not to worry as long as i was giving her 10mls of water at a time she would be fine. they said just think when you have something like this can you eat, do you want to eat??? is all you can hold down water?? so basically it is fine as long as she is having plenty of water she will be fine. i hope the poor little thing is feeling better soon, its horrible when we can't do anything for them. Britt xx

Hello, and thank you all so much for your insight. I'm getting quite nervous now. She's never been this sick before. I have some "Pedialyte" on it's way. In canada it's a fruity drink for infants and toddlers and it's full of electrolytes. So if she doesn't keep that down i'm afraid it's off to the hospital we go.

I'll keep you all posted and thanks again.

Hi,

When my eldest was a baby a doctor in Greece suggested flat lemonade.  3 children later I still use it and recommend it to my friends.

If it goes on much longer though I would see your doctor.  Good luck

icy poles in Australia are water based ice blocks no milk what so ever.

You need to keep your little one hydrated sips of cool boiled water, possible icy poles to suck on are best. There was a pkt product you could buy from the chemist that helped replace the electroltes from the body I read somewhere that a subsittute would be to add a teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of sugar and a tablespoon of OJ to a litre of cool boiled water, if it persists see a DR asap. 

I wish I could help you but as you are in canada I would not know your products. in australia we have this powder that we disolve in water (it has a lemony salty taste)