Archive for the ‘Childrens Health’ Category

My mind and days have been so cluttered with medication schedules, trying to break fevers, Dr’s appointments and whining babies that my blog has gone pretty much neglected. I feel almost guilty on the days I don’t write.

The illnesses started two weeks ago with my daughter having a sinus infection and impetago on her face. This progressed into a double ear infection and another rash on her face that had the Dr scratching her head. She took blood and a culture of the area on her face and results are due back today. Since this seems to be reoccurring we are taking her to a dermatologist in early June.

My poor little man just hasn’t been able to catch a break the past couple of weeks. On top of him cutting four molars he also had a sinus infection, a double ear infection, a respiratory infection and had a fever that
I couldn’t break for four days. This morning he woke up, his fever was gone and I thought the drugs had finally kicked in. I was wrong, the source of the fever just showed up in the form of Roseola. It doesn’t seem to be bothering him and I am happy to report that he is pretty much back to his normal self. Right this very moment he is trying to put a spatula in the air conditioning vent while wearing a bucket on his head. I might finally be able to get my house clean!

When your extremely active borderline hyper 17 month old crawls up on the couch and falls asleep you know he is sick. My poor little guy has a double ear and respiratory infection. He goes between being cuddly, cranky and sleeping within a few minutes. I hope the antibiotics kick in soon and start knocking this nasty illness out of his system. I also hope the Tylenol starts working soon and knocks his fever down.

My daughter is also sick but we won’t know what’s going on with her until tomorrow. She had a swab done of the lesions on her face and blood drawn; we don’t get the results until tomorrow.

Sick little man

Georgie has never had great skin; it started with eczema at four months old and has progressively got worse from there. She recently had impetigo and I choose to blame the daycare that left her with her face covered in snot for who knows how long. I took her to the DR last for the Impetigo and they put her on penicillin to help clear up the infection. After being on the penicillin for a couple of days she had a very angry looking spot come up by her nose, this same spot has now started coming up on her chin. I have no idea what it is but have taken her off the penicillin just in case this is a reaction to it.

I hate seeing her beautiful face like this and am looking forward to getting her back in to see her pediatrician tomorrow and finding out exactly what it is. Poor kid just hasn’t been able to get a break lately.

She was eating an oatmeal cookie when I took this