My 6 year old son began vomitting and diarrhea about 10 hours ago and running a fever of 101.7-regular stomach virus symptoms. He just woke up complaining of his right side hurting when he takes a deep breath. Could he have pulled muscles from dry heaving.
Hi, It seems your kid is having viral diarrhea. Once it starts it will take 5-7 days to completely get better.  Unless the kids having low urine output or very dull or excessively sleepy or blood in motion or green bilious vomiting. You need not worry. There is no need to use antibiotics unless there is blood in the motion. Antibiotics might worsen if unnecessarily used causing antibiotic-associated diarrhea. I suggest you use zinc supplements (Z&D Chat Doctor.