Sick & sick
After a week of school, the following week.. Dylan MC already.
Actually it was nothing serious. The following week’s Monday was Deepavali holiday, and he developed a mild fever the evening before. The fever quickly subsided when we gave him PCM. We monitored his situation through Monday, and when his fever did not come back, we sent him to school on Tuesday.
However on Tuesday afternoon, he developed fever after he woke up from his afternoon nap.
Then we found that Bryan also have fever. And that night itself, Dylan vomited.
So both of them MC on Wednesday. I was very very busy last week and could not take time off from work. Luckily hubb was able to take time off and took the boys to their PD on Wednesday morning.
At the PD’s clinic (11am), Dylan no longer had fever though his last dose was at 530am. Bryan on the other hand, started to shiver right in front of the PD. When checked, his temperature was 39++. PD immediately gave him Voltaren Suppository. But PD wasn’t really concerned. He said it was normal to shiver during fever. Shiver is the body’s way to protect the internal organs by drawing and concentrating the heat inside. So his limbs will feel cold, and shiver will help to bring the overall temp higher so that heat can be dispersed to outer limbs.
I later Googled and found that shiver is the side effect of the body’s action to fight & kill infection through increase of body temperature.
PD was instead more concerned with Dylan as he is smaller, and he has had fever for a couple of days.
He told hubb to monitor Dylan’s situation and to watch out for dengue signs. He told hubb not to give the PCM unless there is fever. But he found out that Dylan had throat ulcers and prescribed some antibiotics for him.
But the PD did not find anything wrong with Bryan. So we were just asked to give him PCM if there is fever and just monitor his situation. He also prescribed some Voltaren supp just in case PCM did not work.
We had recently changed to a new PD which is much closer to our home. I kinda liked him as he is very calm, attentive, patient and gave detailed explanations to all our questions, and when I am at the clinic..I do have a lot of questions for him. The first time we consulted him, I think we spent 30+ minutes in his clinic. Husb said I very “cheong hei” (long winded) and that’s why I like him…cos he is also equally “cheong hei”!
Anyway, Dylan’s fever never came back but the antibiotics resulted in diarrhea and bloatedness.
Bryan’s fever on the other hand, went on a “roller coaster” ride. His fever came down after the Voltaren supp, but at 3pm++, came back very high again. My mother gave him PCM, but it did not work. So I told mom to gave him Voltaren supp again.
Bryan was shivering and claims that he was very cold. I called my mother constantly to get updates about him. I was very guilty for not being able to go home to him as I was rushing a package for an important teleconference meeting that night. But I know that my mom is taking good care of him.
Anyway, hubb and I discussed that if the Voltaren didn’t work, we would rush him straight to the hospital. Thankfully, it worked after 30 mins, and Bryan fell asleep not long after that.
He got better after the 2nd shivering episode. His fever came under control and by the next day it was gone.
Though both their fever is cleared, we decided to keep both of them at home the rest of the week so that they can get a better rest.
Bryan went back to school on Monday but Dylan only went on Tuesday. We kept him another day as he continued to suffer from gas & mild diarrhea due to the antibiotics.
Finally after a week of absence from school, Dylan goes back to school.
Will update in next post how it went…
October 28, 2009 2:15 pm 2 Comments
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By ablogaway, October 30, 2009 @ 2:17 pm
What a coincidence – SY had fever that week too, and later SJ caught it (after SY recovered). Guess it’s the season again. Yeah, I also prefer cheong hei PD