Being a parent is sure no easy job. Last weekend my son, who is only 1 year and 8 months old, had a fever, and it went as high as 40C. My wife (who is now 7 months pregnant) and I went in and out of the hospital for 3 times within 2 days. The 1st time we brought our son to the hospital, the doctor (a general doctor attended to my son) said it is too early to do a blood test as we need to wait for 2 days (48 hours) before his blood shows any abnormal movement/activities (i.e. any sign of bacterial/virus infection). So we took our son home after the doctor gave him some medicine which able to control the fever for the rest of the day. The following day it happen again, fever went up high and we were unable to control it even after we gave him the medicine. Normally, after giving our son a sponge bath his fever will come down, but this time is does not work, on top of that he split out most of the milk we gave him earlier. And so we went to the hospital again at about 5:30am. Another general doctor attended to my son and said the same thing, too early to do blood test, only able to give him a stronger medicine and sent us home.
After that, he was fine for the whole day, playing with the maid, running around the house, the only thing he had was diarrhea. By about 8pm he was sleepy. We thought that well, he must be recovering, no fever for the whole day and with some diarrhea must have made him tired. But ½ hour later his temperature went from 36.6C (his normal temperature) to 38C and keep on claming every second. He had never experience this before. He shivers, his feet were cold but body and head were getting hotter. And so we rush him to the hospital again, and this time I insist to admit my son. The doctor agreed. This time, the doctor (same doctor that we see in the morning) said we can go ahead with the blood test. She even called my son’s pediatrician.
After a night in the hospital, my son was very uneasy with that hospital mainly because he had his circumcision there (due to infection) and kept on crying and asked to go home, we decided to go home. The result was negative on dangerous infection and his diarrhea test did not show anything dangerous as well. There are still some other test to be done, just to make sure everything is save, but the result will only come out in 2 weeks time. And my son did not show any sign of fever after 24 hours. It was a big relief for my wife and me, we are really tired from the whole episode. With the current outbreak (the H1N1 outbreak) it is better to be safe than sorry, beside, the other disease that I’m worry is dengue.
Went we reach home the only thing he has was diarrhea. Not very often, about 2-3 times but was quite greenish. The following day the diarrhea stopped and the fever has been gone for 48 hours. Now we can get some sleep. The only thing is I really pity my wife who is already 7 months pregnant and has to run up and down. And yet our boy wants his mummy very badly especially when he is not feeling well. I feel so helpless. All I can do is to make sure both my son and my wife are comfortable.
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