First and foremost, we are working very diligintly with our pediatrician to get to the bottom of what is going on. I am not using this as a means of diagnosing my daughter, but mearly seeing if anyone has any outside views or if this sounds familiar to anyone.
She is 9 months old and weighs about 20 lbs. weight gain has slowed, gone from 75th-90th% at 6 months to 25-50th% now at 9 months. we are hoping to get an answer without having to take blood again.
Starting on sun march 8th my daughter has had an on again, off again fever. her average temp is a little elevated from her normal one but with spikes of temp going up to 103.9 (highest i have seen). Initially thought to be a fever virus we are now on day 11 of this illness. Here goes:
day 1: high fever 103.9. vomits twice both times after waking up. great attitude when rested and playing but as soon as she gets tired or feverish she is inconsolable. talk to doc twice.
day 3: visit to doc office. still thought to be a fever virus. heavy on liquids and motrin/tylonol to control fever. watch for 24 hours.
day 4-9: fever does go down at first but slowly rises again. no more vomitting. great attitude at first but decreases as the week progresses.
day 9: woke up middle of night with congestion and high fever. back to doc office. ears, throat, nose checks out, chest sounds fine. chest and sinus xrays ordered just in case.
xrays look fine, but there was a ‘patchy inflitrate’. doc said that it is not pneumonia but due to an infection. thoughts of a urinary tract infection so a cathedar was ordered in office. negative.
blood work ordered to determine if it is viral or bacterial. due to fever she was too dehydrated to get enough blood for all tests. so they ran CBC and her white blood count was high.
day 10: ran tests for mono and cat stratch fever both negative. waiting now on cytomeglo virus (hopefully in tomorrow afternoon). had her on an antibiotic bc initial thoughts were that it was mono but when test came back negative we stopped. which is good bc after taking med she took a nap but woke up with a rash on her legs from knee down that looks like a sunburn. doc does not think it is from med (she has had this one before with no problem) but seems to think that this is from the illness.
does any of this sound familiar to you? she is cutting 4 teeth but there is no way that all of this is a result of teething.
also her sleeping pattern was completely normal before all this started- bedtime at 6:30 wake up at 5 with one feeding around 2:30 am, 2 naps during the day lasting 2 hours each. now she goes to bed anywhere from 5:30-8:30 (due to when her last nap was, even though we strive hard to keep an normal bedtime) but wakes up about midnight and wont go back to bed until 3 or 4, naps are still kinda normal. she is getting gas a lot more but only in the middle of the night (maybe only noticing bc she is now awake when she was sleeping) but she is also learning to crawl and trying to learn to walk which can mess with their sleeping- after i lay her back down if i hear her playing in her bed i can see her crawling around and even sometimes standing in her bed walking around the edge- too cute.
i am sure that there is a lot of info i have forgotten to mention, let me know if you have a question.
thank you, i appreciate it.
she tested neg for flu. we have talked to our doc about a second opinion and they support that, really just waiting on the next test results. we dont want to change docs, these people are smart and on top of things. the only reason we dont have more answers is bc of the way that giving blood went, when we first went the nurse was by herself and we waited 3.5 hours (1 past bedtime) and she wasnt able to do it by herself after poking her 2 times. went back in the morning and 2 more pokes, 1 with trying ot force the blood with a suryinge and still couldnt get any. all after xrays and cath. so doc doesnt want to poke her again unless it is needed which he will order after getting these tests results.
nothing is ugly if people are being helpful!!
no siblings or abortions. she is my first and only pregnancy. born at 38 weeks. was sectioned then bc of my high blood pressure but was scheduled c-section at 39.5 weeks due to a crazy breech position and too long to turn (her head was under my ribs and they couldnt even get to her to turn her). born 8 lbs 9 ozs and 21.5 inches
