Stomach virus?

Midnight on the dot.

I have spent the last 20 minutes or so cleaning smelly diarrhea off Hannah and after that, my mattress.  It was time to change the sheets on our bed anyway, and I wasn’t a huge fan of the pajamas she was wearing.    This is the second time in the past 2 hours Hannah has had smelly, explosive diarrhea.

Hannah obviously isn’t feeling well.    We had the vomiting episode yesterday, only once.  But today, her nurse says that she just wasn’t her playful self and wanted just to be held all morning.  It wasn’t until her second nap in the afternoon that she started feeling better and being a bit more playful.

Tonight, after her first evening feed at around 10 pm of about 60 mL,  she started getting really uncomfortable.  Tossing and turning, her face was starting to be very stressed.  I noticed her stomach really big and firm.   About 20 minutes after that feed, she had her first explosive let-go.

I hadn’t fed her anymore this evening.  Usually, I feed her about 2 oz every hour at night for 4 hours (plus about 4 oz water over the course of 8 hours overnight).

About 11:30 pm, she was still awake and obviously very uncomfortable.   She was throwing herself from side to side, and the tears started to well up in her eyes.  Her stomach was still very round and rigid, so I thought that maybe she was bloated with gas.   So I took her feeding tube with an empty syringe to try and vent her out, which is letting out the gas via the tube while I rubbed her stomach.   Some gas came out (sounds like a bubbling geyser), but her stomach was still taut.  I tried massaging her stomach, bicycling her legs, whatever I thought would help relieve her uncomfortableness.

Then I heard the huge gurgles in her abdomen, and well, you can imagine the rest.

She is asleep now, 12:15 am, finally.  Her stomach is much softer now but still looks a bit bloated.  She seems much more comfortable.

I’m worried about what is causing this.  Being that she is on the same formula g-tube diet, I’m leaning towards some type of virus.  But what is most concerning is the disgusting, unique smell… I can’t remember what her rotovirus smelled like (that put her in the hospital for 4 days this summer), but it definitely has an nasty odor.

I think I am going to call her pediatrician tomorrow and see if they can do a blood test for rotovirus, c-diff, and whatever other severe viruses she could have caught.  If anything, just to rule them out.

Tonight, no more food.  Just lots of water.   Also going to pick up some probiotic yogurt to feed her via gtube or maybe get a prescription for FloraStor again just to protect her stomach.   I’ll talk to her pediatrician about this tomorrow.

EDITED TO ADD: 12:30 am, and she has started squirming around in pain while she is sleeping.   My poor thing… I’ll go get another change of clothes, diaper, and protective sheet just in case!