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Sick LO - Thoughts? (TMI) **Update**

AnyaBellaAnyaBella
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I'll preface by saying that we are taking him in to be seen by his Pedi today. I guess I'm looking more for some "been there done that" advice until then, along the lines of "oh yeah that's totally normal!" or if it's not "Oh holy hell, that terrible freak out now!" :P

So G woke up on Wednesday with a fever that got rapidly worse. I took him in and he saw a NP who said he seemed fine and to just alternate giving him tylenol and motrin every 3 hours. So that's what I've been doing. The tylenol/motrin combo brought the fever down to about 101.5 (from 102.6) but never went away.

Yesterday when I was changing G I noticed he had a lot of mucus in his diapers. Then I noticed a couple small spots of blood. In the early evening he started getting diarrhea. Over the night he had a terrible time sleeping. He was awake from 9-12 and in that time period I had to change his diaper 6 or 7 times. Then he woke up at 4:30 and again more diarrhea. When we got up this morning I went to change him and take his temp (102.7) thinking it was just a pee diaper and when I opened it I found another small spot of blood so I called the doctor and we are going in later today.

So... thoughts? I'm afraid to google so I thought I'd see if anyone else has experienced this. Specifically the blood in the diaper. Oh, also he's not eating as well as he normally does and he spits his water out. The only thing I can get him to drink is Pedialyte and he will also nurse but when he does that it's not really active nursing more like comfort sucking. :( I hate seeing him so sick.

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Re: Sick LO - Thoughts? (TMI) **Update**

  • Mrs_ShmoopieMrs_Shmoopie

    Oh no, poor little guy!  I'm afraid I don't have any personal experience w/that so I'm no help.  But I think it's definitely worth taking him in over.  I hope he feels better soon!!! 

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  • SweetiePSweetieP
    I don't have any advice either...I will say that it would scare the crap out of me though. :(  I hope that it's nothing.
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  • AnyaBellaAnyaBella

    ok, well it's a bummer that no one else has experience with this (well not really, I'm glad everyone else has healthy kids!) but it's at least good  good to know I'm not over reacting. I saw his diaper with the blood  and kind of freaked out. I called the dr asap.

    I guess I was just hoping someone would be like "oh, yeah my kid had that, no big deal!" But hearing that you'd be freaked out to is help enough. Hopefully it's nothing serious!

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  • SweetiePSweetieP
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    ok, well it's a bummer that no one else has experience with this (well not really, I'm glad everyone else has healthy kids!) but it's at least good  good to know I'm not over reacting. I saw his diaper with the blood  and kind of freaked out. I called the dr asap.

    I guess I was just hoping someone would be like "oh, yeah my kid had that, no big deal!" But hearing that you'd be freaked out to is help enough. Hopefully it's nothing serious!

    I'm sorry - I didn't want to be the only one to reply with "yeah, I'd freak out too" but I honestly would.   It very well could be nothing but I'm a worrier.  Please keep us posted!
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  • AnyaBellaAnyaBella
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    ok, well it's a bummer that no one else has experience with this (well not really, I'm glad everyone else has healthy kids!) but it's at least good  good to know I'm not over reacting. I saw his diaper with the blood  and kind of freaked out. I called the dr asap.

    I guess I was just hoping someone would be like "oh, yeah my kid had that, no big deal!" But hearing that you'd be freaked out to is help enough. Hopefully it's nothing serious!

    I'm sorry - I didn't want to be the only one to reply with "yeah, I'd freak out too" but I honestly would.   It very well could be nothing but I'm a worrier.  Please keep us posted!

    lol, yeah I probably wouldn't want to respond with that either. :) Thanks though. I'll definitely keep you all posted.

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  • soon2Bkranzsoon2Bkranz member
    Jonathan had this kind of thing before with diarhea. For his he had pretty much burn and cut inside his anus from all the fireyness coming out. But it scared me and I also took him in right away.
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  • AnyaBellaAnyaBella
    I took him in to get checked and they suspect a bacterial infection so we were sent blood work and a stool sample. They said they'll get the results for the blood work by the end of the day but the other lab work will take a couple of days. Also he's lost 6oz which I'm kind of worried about since he was already on the small side. They said the main concern is just keeping him hydrated.
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  • amyfeliceamyfelice
    Oh wow, I am so sorry to hear that he is having this illness. I hope he feels better soon. 
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