The "most essential" infant vaccines - Page 2

[lyttlewon]

Originally Posted by mamakay

My son came close to us going to the ER. And he was 2 when he got it.
I *think* knowing the "tricks" to keeping a pukey kid hydrated will reduce your chances of actually ending up at her ER.
If you're not in daycare, your baby will be older when they catch rotavirus, too, probably. That seems to be the way it works from what I've seen, at least.
And I bet the one in 100 number is an overestimations that takes into account those parents who just run to the ER over everything, too. If you don't expect rotavirus to be "bad" and don't know the symptoms, and the signs of actual dehydration, I can see a lot of people just going to the ER thinking their kid has some fatal disease after a few days of it.

My wild guess would be that a bf'ed kid not in daycare has a one in 300 chance of actually needing IV fluids because of rotavirus.

I wanted to comment on the "older child" part. DD was two when we put her in daycare. We put her in daycare in August and she contracted Rotavirus in February. So you are probably right. We didn't have more than a couple of vomit episodes though it was mostly pooping. She was nursing like a newborn at that point anyway so it was fairly easy for me to keep her hydrated.

[amah]

Rotavirus

Ds had Rotavirus when he was 2 months when he was ebf and was sick and cranky and had bad diarrhea for a week but nothing else. The Norwalk virus stomach bug he got at 3 years was MUCH worse with vomiting and stomach problems. He was really sick and close to being hospitalized for dehydration. The Norwalk viruses have been really common the past 2 years. I wonder if some of the babies who could not keep anything down actually had one of those vs rotavirus? And, there's no vaccine for those...

I'm not getting Rotavirus for my newborn as complications are rare for healthy infants and the vaccine is too new.

[mamakay]

Fro what I understand, the main difference between the two is that with rotavirus, it's usually vomiting for 12-18 hours, then the poop.
With Norwalk viruses, it's not a clear pattern from one to the other like that.