Sick Baby, Again

Poor little man is sick again.  He picked up a cough on Tuesday that didn't seem too bad.  His last day on the augmentin for his ear infection was Monday.  He was still pulling on one ear some and started running a low fever 101F.  We thought maybe his ear infection didn't clear up and were considering bringing him in.  Then yesterday afternoon he suddenly started running a temperature of 103.3F and his breathing was labored.  It reminded us a lot of how he was when he had pneumonia last month so we got in for a late appointment at our pediatrician's office.

We saw Dr. Myers which is who we also saw for Gray's ear infection a couple of weeks ago.  She said his ears were clear but his chest sounded junky.  She also didn't like his fever.  She decided to have him do a breathing treatment in the office and then wanted to listen to his lungs afterward.  She also did a strep test since Brian and I had it last week even though kids younger than 2 don't usually get strep.

Gray did not like the breathing treatment and screamed himself into a half-asleep state.  It worked well though.  When Dr. Myers came back in, Gray had a good cough and when she listened to his lungs, they sounded much better.  Also, the strep test was negative.

Dr. Myers gave Gray a dose of motrin to start bringing his fever down and sent us home with a nebulizer.  She wanted us to do a breathing treatment with him every 4 hours through the night and also give him tylenol or motrin (switching back and forth) every 3 hours.

The 10 pm treatment:

I fed Gray after this and he went to sleep relatively easier.  However, after the 2 am treatment, nursing him did NOT help him get back to sleep.  He was wide awake and ready to play.  After I continued to fail at getting to sleep, Brian took over and let me sleep as he managed to get Gray down.

We took Gray back in this morning to see if the breathing treatments were helping.  Gray was acting much better and other than the fever that would start creeping back up if we were late on the tylenol or motrin, he seemed to just have a cold.

We saw our regular pediatrician this time.  Dr. Huss said Gray's lungs sounded great.  He is guessing that Gray has a tough virus that is just hard on his little lungs (for the older boys, this would just be a bad cold).  Some of the viruses hit the hardest around day 3 and that matches up with Gray's symptoms.  Though he didn't think we'd need it anymore, Dr. Huss is having us keep the nebulizer through the weekend in case Gray needs it.  I did end up doing a breathing treatment this afternoon since we already had the medicine and he was sounding a little worse again.  But generally, we seem to be past the really bad stuff!