101.5 fever, listlessness, diarrhea, possible sore throat - what to do? (KIM)

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The point that the body is going into fever mode tells you it is

fighting off something A fever is the natural body response. However

((Not good to stay at the high range)

Make sure you replace/ give plenty of fluids adequate rest.

Something to monitor the child should be responsive and not look

worse during the fever process.*** Please take caution.***

With that said if it was my kiddo I would give things a break until

he bounced back….. They often do quickly. .Throwing up is white flag

to rest from interventions.

Now the fact that you also have direaha can be the result of many

contributors. IMO it can be a simple as a gut bug, something may not

agree to do too many things at once. Use your own motherly instinct

to how kiddo looks and nurse him back.

I am not the viral expert and won't advise either way. But I will

say that I would definite NOT Chelate at the same time with these

types of conditions. The rule of thumb is stop chelation if the child

is throwing up but if the body is already in stress, it is also

telling you something too. Listen to the body and may God help heal

your kiddo.

My best

Kenny v

>

> We started Valtrex May 19th and everything was fine, but now our

4.3

> year old has had the above symptoms for two days and we're not sure

> what to do. His DAN! doctor, Kurt Woeller, is away on vacation and

> his pediatrician wants to start him on anti-biotics, even though he

> tested negative for strep. He said that it could be a false

> negative and we should start the anti-biotics until the test can be

> cultured a few more days and tell us for sure whether it's strep or

> not. He thinks it is, because of the " strep rash " on ny's

> belly. But ny often gets rashes that WE attribute to metal

> excretion (we've been using TD-DMPS), so I think our pediatrician

> may have just leapt to judgement there and made up his mind the

> symptoms fit strep. What does everyone think?

>

> ny had a big blowout of diarrea this morning, which is atypical

> of his normal-to-constipated system. We brought in a stool sample

> and our pediatrician agreed to test it, but only for bacteria. He

> said that if you test for viruses, you have to have a particular

one

> in mind to look for.

>

> We don't want to give the anti-biotics like we have in the past for

> strep, especially unconfirmed strep, but ny is about to take

> part in a hyperbarics study and we'd hate for that to be

jeopardized

> by illness. We need some advice from Stan and the folks who've

been

> on Valtrex longer than we have.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Kim Bowman, Phoenix

>