Guest guest Posted July 15, 2006 Report Share Posted July 15, 2006 (19Mo/9kg) eats about 700-800g of pureed food per day and hardly drinks anything (a little water, but he refuses more). Since last March he has been gaining weight nicely this way. Since the start of July and since it got very hot here (and still is), his temperature went up to 37,5 deg. Centigrade (98,6F), sometimes up to 38,1 (100,4F) or even 38,4 (101,12F), without any infection symptoms.At the same time he started eating less. At first about 200g less per day, but since last Monday, 10th of July, when he got 2 vaccinations (dipht./catal./pert. + the 2nd dose of measels/rub/mumps) his appetite went down even more, down to about 350 - bis 450g/day. His nappies have been more or less dry since yesterday, maybe a little wet in the morning. Our paed. thought the elevated temp. and loss of appetite might be caused by the heat. But we're worried, because has already lost 300g in only 6 days, without there being any change in sight. We just phoned the paed. on weekend duty and he suggested we give him something (paracetamole) to bring his temp. down a bit in order to normalize his appetite. Is there anything else we should do or will the situation just resolve by itself? Is it only the heat or the vaccinations? Thanks,/Switzerland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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