Reese was FINALLY diagnosed with something today, Enterovirus. Don't get me wrong I am NOT happy that she has this. But for the last 2 weeks I have taken her to the Doctor 3 times, and the ER once. I have been telling everyone that there is something wrong with her, but kept getting brushed off.
It all started 3 weeks ago. She got this nasty cough and runny nose. I took her to the dr and she said she had an ear infection. Gave her ammoxicillan for 10 days.
After she finished the antibiotic she was still crabby, not really wanting to eat. Very whiny. Not sleeping at night at all. And very wobbly when walking. Then on last Friday she developed this high fever of 102. I gave her tylenol and by Sat morning it was gone. She was having these awful night sweats, where when I would pick her up she would be soaking wet. So on Sunday morning I took her to the Emergency Room just to be safe.
The dr there said that there was nothing wrong with her that he could see, but maybe she had fluid on her ears that was causing her to not sleep. He even told me that we should put tubes in her ears to fix her problems. But basically he told me that it was pointless to have brought her into the ER. Nice huh?
So on Tues I took her back to her regular pediatrician, because again, there is something wrong with her, she is acting miserable. She looked at her and said that she was totally fine, and teething was the cause of her behaviour and symptoms. And as far as the not sleeping at night, we just need to sleep train her. So to just giver her tylenol or ibuprofen when she seemed like she was uncomfortable.
That night she started crying and screaming hysterically for hours, she had developed a little rash, but I thought maybe it was because she was so worked up etc. She fell asleep early and woke up a couple of times in the night. Well this morning I got her up and the rash was all over her trunk and face.
I took her straight back to the pediatricians office(since I didn't want to deal with the awful er doctor again) we saw a new doctor in the practice because our Dr is off today. She took one look at her and knew exactly what it was. She examined her and her throat is totally irritated and has little ulcers in it, which explains the pain and not wanting to eat anything. That and the rash and all of her other symptoms are textbook Enterovirus.
Now if you google that you will get awful information about polio and horrible things like that, but she assured me that is NOT what she has. Reese has Non-polio enterovirus.
Since it is a virus there is no antibiotic and it will just go away on its own after it runs its course. We can just make her comfy with benedryl and tylenol when needed. But according to the Dr she is at the end of it and should be feeling better soon.
I certainly hope so!!
I know we are all human and make mistakes, but I feel like our pediatrician dropped the ball on this one. I was just there yesterday and she totally missed this. I felt ignored, but I was not going to let this go.
But on a positive note I think we will continue to see the new dr because Reese absolutely loved her, and so did I;)
Now I feel like I can relax a little, she is almost over this, and I am now officially a germaphobe! Can't I just keep her locked in the house with pure air?? I'm only kidding(kind of)
Happy Thanksgiving all!!
xoxo
