Saturday, April 19, 2008
Teething, ears, bites, and rashes...
It's been quite a week for Tyler! He's still working on cutting his top teeth but is sleeping a little bit better at night. He has nights where he sleeps through and nights where he wakes up screaming like a banshee for 2 hours and running a fever of almost 102! The waking up screaming with fever made me wonder if maybe his ears were bothering him, so we went to the doctor on Thursday and got him all checked out. The doctor said that he didn't look like his right ear was healthy but it didn't look bad either, just a little irritated. So he suggested waiting and seeing if he ran anymore fever and watching him close and giving the antibiotic only if I thought he needed it. So Thursday night he had a scream fest and since we didn't know if it was his ear or his teeth we decided to go ahead and start the antibiotic... what could it hurt, right?! He woke up Friday morning with a weird rash on his head, that we still have no idea where it came from. He also had what looks like an ant bite on his leg that was a little irritated... so I wondered maybe if that had anything to do with the rash. Fast forward to Friday night, we gave him his first dose of amoxil and an hour later went to give him his bath and discovered red bumps all over his back and belly. I called the doc on call and he said to stop the amoxil and bring him in Saturday morning, so we brought him in this morning and he said it looks like a reaction to the antibiotic and he's officially allergic to penicillin. The good news is that he said he never had an ear infection and we don't need to worry about finding another antibiotic to put him on right now, we can just let it go. He also gave us some sample meds for the bite on his leg. Despite all the action, he's been in a great mood and we just got home from a little fair up at the school, he flirted with everyone as usual and now he's down for his nap! I'm still undecided if this counts as his first illness, since he wasn't actually sick and didn't really need the medicine that gave him the rash in the first place... maybe I'll hold off a bit longer on putting this one down in the baby book, I doubt there is room for this entire saga anyways!!
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Yowzers! He did have an active week didn't he! I guess you can blame The Snowbargers for his penicillin allergy... Adam is allergic too!
and what's up with those teeth anyway?... They need to just come out already! Poor Tyler =(
My mom and grandfather are allergic to it too, poor thing didn't stand a chance! Doctor said that they can take weeeeeeeks to cut their top teeth sometimes, hopefully they will come down soon. He's fine during the day, they just bother him at night. So it isn't too bad! Definitely wish they would get a move on and come out though!
penicillin allergy is a quite common thing, not to worry there are plenty of other antibiotics out there. I'd say that was his first "illness" because all he's had before was the sniffles/cold, right? ~Amanda
Hopefully we won't need to find any antibiotics anytime soon. I'm not sure to call it an illness or not though since he was never actually sick... crazy kid!
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