It's no fun when your kids are sick; it's really no fun when you don't know what's wrong with them. When they're not old enough to tell you if anything hurts, I get more concerned about what's going on in their bodies. Barrett started with over 103 fever on Sunday but it seemed to stay down with tylenol. Monday morning he wakes up with around 101, still not too bad. But then, he wakes up and the ear thermometer says 104.7 and the temperal one said 105.2 I have NEVER seen a reading this high on either one of my kids and it worried me, especially because, as I said, he can't tell me what' wrong. Because it was Memorial Day, the doctor wasn't open so we decided to take him to convenient care, which doesn't take kids under 2, so we had to go to the ER. I might have tried waiting it out a little if I knew this but we were already there so we just waited. They couldn't find anything really wrong, even with a chest x-ray so they almost sent us home saying it was viral. They came in for 1 last temperature reading and after having tylenol 3 hours before and ibuprofen 1 hour before, his rectal reading was still 102.3. So, they came back and said since his fever was still up, they figured it was probably bacterial so they prescribed amoxicillin.
Tuesday afternoon Barrett wakes up from his first nap with small red dots just on his upper chest...I wasn't sure if it was a rash or an impression from his blanket/bed. I figured it wasn't a rash and give him more medicine. He wakes up from his second nap and it's a little worse so I decide not to give him more medicine. As the evening progresses, it spreads to his face and back and just gets red and splotchy. So, we call the after hours number and find we can give him just a little children's benadryl. I sleep with him in the chair, very restlessly as he is a squirmer, until 2 a.m. and realize he's not getting worse and it's not effecting his breathing so I put him to bed so we both can get good sleep. So, now we now he's allergic to amoxicillin, I'm allergic to ampicillin and Darren's allergic to pencillin; Becca's the only one that doesn't seem to be allergic to any medication, how funny is that?
These pictures don't show you how red and spotchy it was, but you can see a little bit.
2 comments:
Oh no! Mar's allergic, too. She was covered in big, fat red dots from head to toe. She was right around a year-and-a-half old. Crazy! Can't wait to see you in a week or so!!!
Boo! Poor Barrett! I've never had to deal with crazy high fevers like that. That would've freaked me out for sure! Hope he's already feeling much better.
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