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Our whole family has been sick for the last week with some kind of crud. My 9 year old was the last man standing ... until last night. He had a cough all weekend, so we figured he'd gotten the crud. Then he developed a rash and a consistent low grade fever. Ughh. When I called the school office this morning, they told me I was the fourth person to call from his class with fever and a rash. We're off to the doctor this morning, who suspects a mild chicken pox (he's vaccinated). Does anybody have any other ideas of what it could be? He's got cold symptoms, an all over the body and face rash (only about 20 spots though) of pimple-like red bumps and a fever around 100.5. He's in good spirits and says he only itches a little.
I'm emotionally scarred by his past medical history- and never make it through his illnesses without panic. He was deathly ill and hospitalized for 3 weeks as a toddler after two visits to the ped tagging it a "virus". It turned out to be antibiotic-resistant pneumonia when I took him to the ER over a weekend. The kid was running a fever of 105 for weeks that could only be brought down to 101 with medication in the hospital. After recovering from that, he went on to febrile seizures throughout early childhood. He also developed a hernia which had to be repaired at 5 and was admitted for IV antibiotics for a wound infection at 7. Now he has all these dental issues that the dentist tells me could be related to the persistent high fevers when his permanent molars were forming. Thank G*d, I wasn't a mother when kids got measles, mumps and scarlet fever routinely. (Oh yeah -- my boy actually DID have scarlet fever at 5.)
Needless to say, when he gets sick - I freak out. Late last night I was convinced he had rheumatic fever.
Thanks, internet health resources. Talk me down, folks. It's just a bug, right? RIGHT???????
I'm emotionally scarred by his past medical history- and never make it through his illnesses without panic. He was deathly ill and hospitalized for 3 weeks as a toddler after two visits to the ped tagging it a "virus". It turned out to be antibiotic-resistant pneumonia when I took him to the ER over a weekend. The kid was running a fever of 105 for weeks that could only be brought down to 101 with medication in the hospital. After recovering from that, he went on to febrile seizures throughout early childhood. He also developed a hernia which had to be repaired at 5 and was admitted for IV antibiotics for a wound infection at 7. Now he has all these dental issues that the dentist tells me could be related to the persistent high fevers when his permanent molars were forming. Thank G*d, I wasn't a mother when kids got measles, mumps and scarlet fever routinely. (Oh yeah -- my boy actually DID have scarlet fever at 5.)
Needless to say, when he gets sick - I freak out. Late last night I was convinced he had rheumatic fever.
Thanks, internet health resources. Talk me down, folks. It's just a bug, right? RIGHT???????
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