sick with fever

tstephens410

I don't post very often, but I am in need of some advice. Here is a little back story. My baby boy is 9 months old today. He has been sick a few times since since he was born. He had broncilitis when he was about 6 weeks old and has had a few good colds and in the last month and a half he has had 2 ear infections. Well, Wednesday a week ago he woke up at 2am running a fever of 101.4 temple thermometer at the highest and not feeling good. He was congested, slight cough, etc. My husband took him to the doctor that morning, but when he got there he was not running a fever I think there thermometer is wrong because they use the kind that they just roll over forhead and the pedi said he just had a normal cold, but told us to keep an eye out and if he got worse to bring him back. So as far as fever went he didn't really have one. His normal temp is high 97 low 98, but his temp all last week was high 98 low 99 and they say for babies that it is not a fever unless 100.4 or higher. Well, Sunday came and I could tell he just wasn't himself and he was starting to pull his ears again, so, on Monday morning I took him back to the doctor and the pedi now tells me he has the early onset of ear infections in both ears and that he is in the home stretch of getting over the croupe. So his pedi put him on antibiotics he's had a different antibiotic for each ear infection. We started the antibiotics on Monday night and now here it is Friday and he is back running another high fever. With his normal thermometer it says 102.1 and when I took it in his rectum it was 101.4. He has had maybe 10 oz of formula since 2:30am, he did eat pears for breakfast this morning, but that's it, he won't let me put him down, and he will only stay awake for 30 minutes before he is going back to sleep for another hour. This has been going on all day! I called his pedi earlier today to find out what I should do and his pedi is suppose to call me back, at 3pm I still hadn't heard back so I called them again and the nurse told me she has a note on the doctors desk, but hasn't heard anything yet, but said come morning if he still has a fever to bring him in they have a Saturday clinic and they will get him checked. As of right now he isn't dehydrated. He has had one poopy diaper and one wet diaper I know that is not a lot since 8am but he is still producing tears. Everytime I lay him down he starts crying immediately or when I go to change his diaper or check his temperature. The nurse told me to keep trying to give him water, juice, pedialite, and ofcourse milk. So, after all of this, my question is, what do yall think I should do? Should I wait til morning or should I try to get to urgent care or the er? I do apologize for formatting or possible misspelled words, I'm bumping from my phone. And thanks in advance for any advice!!!

MamaToFinley

I would take him to the ER! I can't believe your pedi isn't being responsive. Trust you instincts

kerischrader

If your Dr. doesn't call you back you can call the after hours line and they will have to call you back. Someone is always on call. They will walk you through if you have to take further measures. It could be that his ears are hurting him and antibiotics have yet to really kick in. But I would call Dr. back (keep bugging) or wait til after hrs line kicks on.... because then for sure you will get a call back

tstephens410

Thanks for yalls reply. I ended up taking him to urgent care last night because he got to the point of screaming uncontrolably. He was still running a fever even though I had given him ibuprofen just a couple hours before. The Dr there was not a pedi, they don't have pedis in the urgent care department. Anyways, he said his ears were cleared up from his antibiotic, but that his throat was red swollen and had a few puss pockets. They ran a strep test but it was negative. I had my doubts last night that it wasn't accurate because when doing the test they have to swab the very back of throat and infected area and they couldn't or didn't hold his tongue down and it looked more like they were getting the back inside cheek rather than throat. The doctor did prescribe him a steroid for a few days and said to continue with the antibiotic that he was prescribed on Monday for his ear infection. Fast forward to this morning, I called Lucus' doctors office this morning and gave them an update on what the urgent care doctor said last night. The doctor on call wanted me to bring him in and wanted to check him for dehydration. Well, here's the outcome, he still has a double ear infection that is no where near being healed and he does have strep with the whole back of his throat covered in puss pockets. And as far as dehydration goes, he isn't quite out of the woods. He isn't having enough wet diapers, but he is still producing tears and his mouth is still wet. So I have to keep an eye out and make sure it doesn't get worse. We have a new antibiotic that is stronger than what he was on and he is to keep taking the steroid to help clear it all up. We are suppose to call Monday morning and let them know how he is.