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Monday, November 16, 2009
Sick for the first time
My little boy is sick. =(
On Thursday he got a fever, we rang the maternal nurse health line to see what they thought we should do and they told us it could be because of the heat but we should take baby to hospital to get it checked anyway. So we did...
Trips to hospital are never fun. We went to the Children's hospital and seeing so many sick kids made me a bit depressed. To make things worse, the nurse told us that the average waiting time was 4 hours... oh, great! - I thought- but before I could get any more depressed she told us that there was a GP clinic in the next corridor and we could go there instead of waiting for hours, they prioritize babies - thank God! (thanks while baby is a baby).
The emergency nurses were excellent and quickly assessed Caio, took his temperature (39°C= 103 F), found some rash at the back of his head that could be the cause of fever , gave him some medicine to reduce temperature and made us wait for about 30 minutes (nothing compared to 4 hours.
We finally got to see the Doctor and after a consultation, he wrote a note to my GP and I quote:
"breast fed fever a day not dehydrated alert and cheerful chest ear and throat all fine Dad just had a yellow fever vax Monday t. 39.1 but minor rash? viral, treat with fluid and panadol"
If you didn't understand, here is a little translation:
Breastfed baby, has had fever for a day, not dehydrated, alert and cheerful, chest, ear and throat are all fine, dad's just had a yellow fever vaccine on Monday, temperature 39.1°C and minor rash. Viral, treat with fluids (i.e. breastmilk and water) and paracetamol.
What a useless consultation, what a waste of time! Everything he wrote in the note we already knew and what he told us to do we were doing already! At least we didn't have to pay anything for it and now we can rest asure that it was nothing, right?
Wrong!!
For the next few days baby seemed fine, no more fever, happy baby, no complaints but that little rash at the back of his head seemed to have spread to his neck.
So I decided to go to my 24/7 -know-it-all-friend-Google: heat rash, it must be it! This is his first summer and he's not used to it, sweat blocks up his little pores and makes skin read.
I thought I had it figured out, I'm a beauty therapist and half of my job is about skin analysis... Oh well... Was I wrong.
Next morning rash is all over my little one's face and body. We called a doctor, couldn't be bothered going to depressing hospital again in the same week and what we found out?
Baby has got Rubella!! According to the Doc, we can't know it for sure because we would need blood tests and baby is too young for it, but all the symptoms match.
Now he has to be isolated here as this is a highly contagious desease and even though it's not harmful to babies, people like me and you, it could be lethal to a pregnant woman's baby.
I look at my spotty son and I feel so sorry for him, even seeing how happy he still is!
Hope he gets better soon cause we're going to Brazil in 10 days!! how exciting is that??
Have a great week!
xx
On Thursday he got a fever, we rang the maternal nurse health line to see what they thought we should do and they told us it could be because of the heat but we should take baby to hospital to get it checked anyway. So we did...
Trips to hospital are never fun. We went to the Children's hospital and seeing so many sick kids made me a bit depressed. To make things worse, the nurse told us that the average waiting time was 4 hours... oh, great! - I thought- but before I could get any more depressed she told us that there was a GP clinic in the next corridor and we could go there instead of waiting for hours, they prioritize babies - thank God! (thanks while baby is a baby).
The emergency nurses were excellent and quickly assessed Caio, took his temperature (39°C= 103 F), found some rash at the back of his head that could be the cause of fever , gave him some medicine to reduce temperature and made us wait for about 30 minutes (nothing compared to 4 hours.
We finally got to see the Doctor and after a consultation, he wrote a note to my GP and I quote:
"breast fed fever a day not dehydrated alert and cheerful chest ear and throat all fine Dad just had a yellow fever vax Monday t. 39.1 but minor rash? viral, treat with fluid and panadol"
If you didn't understand, here is a little translation:
Breastfed baby, has had fever for a day, not dehydrated, alert and cheerful, chest, ear and throat are all fine, dad's just had a yellow fever vaccine on Monday, temperature 39.1°C and minor rash. Viral, treat with fluids (i.e. breastmilk and water) and paracetamol.
What a useless consultation, what a waste of time! Everything he wrote in the note we already knew and what he told us to do we were doing already! At least we didn't have to pay anything for it and now we can rest asure that it was nothing, right?
Wrong!!
For the next few days baby seemed fine, no more fever, happy baby, no complaints but that little rash at the back of his head seemed to have spread to his neck.
So I decided to go to my 24/7 -know-it-all-friend-Google: heat rash, it must be it! This is his first summer and he's not used to it, sweat blocks up his little pores and makes skin read.
I thought I had it figured out, I'm a beauty therapist and half of my job is about skin analysis... Oh well... Was I wrong.
Next morning rash is all over my little one's face and body. We called a doctor, couldn't be bothered going to depressing hospital again in the same week and what we found out?
Baby has got Rubella!! According to the Doc, we can't know it for sure because we would need blood tests and baby is too young for it, but all the symptoms match.
Now he has to be isolated here as this is a highly contagious desease and even though it's not harmful to babies, people like me and you, it could be lethal to a pregnant woman's baby.
I look at my spotty son and I feel so sorry for him, even seeing how happy he still is!
Hope he gets better soon cause we're going to Brazil in 10 days!! how exciting is that??
Have a great week!
xx
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