Re:Illness on the protocol?

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

My son has been sick for a week now. He started with a stomach virus,

then tonsillitis (strept negative),cold and now a bad cough. He has had a fever

off and on all week. The ped. started him on an antibiotic yesterday because of

the fever, swollen glands, red throat and junky cough.

is on Valtrex, and I'm wondering if there's anything else we should

be doing from a " " perspective? This is the first time in his life that he's

had a cough (weird because he's five yrs. old). What meds. does Dr. G use to

treat a cold and cough? Thanks in advance,

[Guest guest]

,

We have had a very similar illness in the house starting with a sore

throat then a good old head cold and then cough. my son has

had it as well, and we are basically giving Advil for headache that

he complains of. i had an appointment with the ped last Friday, but

he woke feeling better so I canceled. We also gave him an extra

dose of his nightime antihistamine/decongestant on Sat afternoon and

this seemed to help as well.

Best of luck

--- In , " LINDA ANAGNOSTAKOS " <lsa5885@m...>

wrote:

> Hi all,

>

> My son has been sick for a week now. He started with a

stomach virus, then tonsillitis (strept negative),cold and now a bad

cough. He has had a fever off and on all week. The ped. started him

on an antibiotic yesterday because of the fever, swollen glands, red

throat and junky cough.

> is on Valtrex, and I'm wondering if there's anything

else we should be doing from a " " perspective? This is the first

time in his life that he's had a cough (weird because he's five yrs.

old). What meds. does Dr. G use to treat a cold and cough? Thanks in

advance,

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

,

Thanks! was very short tempered yesterday and today in preschool ( this is

so unusual for him), I think that he must have a headache also. He just

complaines of being sick but isn't really specifying what hurts him.

I always worry about regression during an illness, hopefully he'll wake up

tomorrow feeling better! Thanks again and I'm glad to hear that your family is

feeling better now.

Take care,

---- Original Message -----

From: meljackmom

Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 2:41 PM

Subject: Re:Illness on the protocol?

,

We have had a very similar illness in the house starting with a sore

throat then a good old head cold and then cough. my son has

had it as well, and we are basically giving Advil for headache that

he complains of. i had an appointment with the ped last Friday, but

he woke feeling better so I canceled. We also gave him an extra

dose of his nightime antihistamine/decongestant on Sat afternoon and

this seemed to help as well.

Best of luck

> Hi all,

>

> My son has been sick for a week now. He started with a

stomach virus, then tonsillitis (strept negative),cold and now a bad

cough. He has had a fever off and on all week. The ped. started him

on an antibiotic yesterday because of the fever, swollen glands, red

throat and junky cough.

> is on Valtrex, and I'm wondering if there's anything

else we should be doing from a " " perspective? This is the first

time in his life that he's had a cough (weird because he's five yrs.

old). What meds. does Dr. G use to treat a cold and cough? Thanks in

advance,

>

>

>