The whole story as below..
on 25th Oct(Monday), after i came back from work, mum said did seems to have some cough and phlegm.. that was after the flu episode from lil missy, eventhough lil missy has recovered from her cough/phlegm, she still cough occassionally with the sound of phlegm in her throat. we have since saw doc for 4 times.. imagine that. doc said with the haze, the phlegm took longer than usual time to clear.
and the thing we afraid happened. didi got the virus from his sister.. finally, after like coming to a month since lil missy first started with her cough. and that coincide with.. i have just stopped breastfeeding. sob.
on monday night, did cough and vomitted his milk, we brought him to see the doctor near our home immediately, no fever yet. doc said still early stage, is ok. but the cough with phlegm and running nose got worst even with medicine. and he started to develop fever on wednesday night, mild one..37.9 or so. and we monitored for one day, which the fevere did not go away on the whole day of Thursday 28th Oct. so, on Friday , i took leave to bring him and missy to see the Paedatrician @ Bishan. as missy still cough occasionally.
spent almost 200 for the two for the visit. but didi's fever never subsided, and he started to lose appetite for milk/porridge and he looks verey sleepy and cranky, his fever still hovering at 38 + to 39+.. after medicine it took about 1 hour to drop. In the evening, his fevere still at 39 plus even after medicine, after 4 hours. i felt not right, so we quickly bring him to KKh A&E. I smsed my PD, she said is expected, she even guaranteed that by Sunday 31/10 his fever/cough will be better, asked me to sponge him. But when we reached KKh A&E, his fever was at 40.1deg.. ohh no.. too much
risk/stress for me to take.. after the paracetamol, didi fever still at 38 plus. so the doc ask me to decide, either to bring him home and continue to sponge and monitor or stay in hospital. i chose the later.
so, we were admitted. With professional nurses checking didi's temperature hourly/2 hourly, it made me feel much better. and didi's fever subsided on Sat night. and the doctor in KH ward told me, it's normal that baby this age will have fever this high for 5-7 days, he somemore said, maybe i don't know, he explained to me. i told him, i don't want to take the risk, cos the doc said only fever with fits is dangerous, but so long u know how to abort it and only fever up to 42 deg will cause bain damage.. but hey, how would i know how to abort a fit if it ever happen ? and what if when i was sleeping, his fever shoot up to 42 deg?? all the ifss. so i dun want to take the risk.
and true enough, didi was back to normal on Sunday.. and after oen day of clear from fever, we left home on Monday. What a scare ! lucky thing didi is ok now. he has since regain his appetite.
We stayed at KKH 1 bedded thus, treatment like VIP, seem like staying in hotel like that.. haaa.. lil missy was with MIL, and we din bring her to see didi as nurses advises us not to, as many baby/todler having fever due to haze.
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