This time she had fever, diarrhoea cough and vomitted too. As usual I was debating whether to take her to the paedi. She might overcome the bug with the aid of Panadol. That would be better than taking antibiotics... I follow my mum's policy to avoid these if possible. Hubby's policy on the other hand is, "why spend days being sick and suffering? Take antibiotics la!". Heh. Finally I decided on the paedi since she did have diarrhoea 8 times that day.
Oops I ngg-ngggh again
1. Smecta for the intestines
2. Kaopec for the diarrhoea
3. Medicof for cough
4. Zithromax (antibiotics) on kiasu hubby's request
plus the Panadol suspension I already had at home. Peace of mind for a RM102 bill, hehe. Now I have added stomach medicine to my arsenal. Only problem was, how to feed all these meds to a little kid who didn't want any?? In total it was over 30ml of meds! (Smecta itself is 20ml water added to the powder). Sigh... slowly and painfully loh. Jo Ern was crying pitifully and shaking, shaking her head. Every time she opened her mouth to cry I squirted some medicine in. Eventually she was crying with her mouth pursed shut. But she had to open her mouth for air and that's when she got more medicine in. What torture for the poor child.
The next day she had diarhoea 7 times but fever was spiking far less often. Now, she's almost recovered. The antibiotics weren't needed after all. She's still off her food and milk though. Hopefully she's all well by our Hanoi trip this Thursday!
I'm all better now! No, I don't need any food thank you
Jense hates med too... he will spit it out and forcefully gag over it, as if trying to induce vomitting to get rid of the med... and i spent more than half an hour feeding him med, squirting only 1ml each time (to avoid him from spitting it out) and stopping for 3-4mins in between to let him play for a while. there's a few times, the ordeal was almost done and he vomitted everything and have to feed ALL the med, ALL over again... lucky Jo Ern don't need the Zithromax otherwise that will have been worst - the taste is horrible (according to Justin)
ReplyDeleteai yo.. poor Jo Ern. sounds like a bad bug. Funnily enough, both K & S like to take meds cos all the ones I have been giving them usually tastes sweet or has strawberry flavour. so they think it is a treat!
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