[Re: ] Flu?

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has some rotten bug and I feel sure it's the dreaded influenza. Sent

her to school yesterday knowing she sounded like she had a new cold, but she had

no trace of fever. Wasn't at school more than 15 min. when fever hit and

nurse called to come get her. She was weak and looked awful and I felt a little

sheepish, like the guilty mom who sent a really sick kid to school, but she

really wasn't that sick before!!!

She was coughing, had a headache and her fever was 101 under the arm -- she

stayed on the couch all day. Tylenol only took fever down one degree and though

she had no energy she did not seem lethargic, color was good.

Today 101 oral and baaaaad body aches. Same headache, cough, etc. Flushed

cheeks from the fever I guess. Throat looked okay, lungs sounded fine, ears came

up okay with " Ear Check " device. Her left eye is red but no goop. Called ped

thinking flu for sure, they said with that fever to bring her in to check for

flu.

Nasal swab came back negative. But I'm thinking, it looks like flu, feels

like flu... ya know? Maybe it's a different strain than what they test for. They

said they are seeing alot of this, fever, body aches, seems like flu but tests

negative. Doc seemed confused by that but I looked up the tests and they

certainly are not 100%.

Anyway, they did a finger stick just in case (she also had some naaasty

bruising under the skin on her foot, it looked somewhat like purpura but had

been

there a day before the fever so I wasn't too worried about it but when I showed

it to the doc her eyes got real big and she whipped Em's shirt up looking for

more. I didn't tell the doc but I had already done that! (bug-eyes and all!)

Anyway, if this is the flu (regardless of swab results!), by tomorrow it's

pretty much too late to start Tamiflu or similar... I didn't think of that until

tonight. Sigh.

CBC showed WBC only 8,000 but left shift, so they started her on Augmentin

just in case and will re-do counts tomorrow. I bet you a million dollars the WBC

will be 5,500 or lower tomorrow and no more left shift. We'll see -- I've

seen this pattern before!

My MIL found a totally non-dairy yogurt at Whole Foods Markets, it's pretty

good so now I have a good way to get probiotics in Em without aggravating her

dairy/GERD issues and hopefully preventing another painful vaginal yeast

infection due to being on abx. Little Kate's dairy issues are worse so she's

never

tasted yogurt in her life, she's LOVING this stuff!!

(mom to , age 6, dairy intolerant-related GERD -- currently has

polysaccharide antibody def, previously had transient IgG, IgA, t-cell & other

defs... and also to Kate, age 2, more dairy intolerant but very healthy!)