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Toddler With Cough, With Slight Fever And Little Blotchy Skin. Any Treatment?
My son is 9 months old and I brought him to my friends house on Wednesday.She has two boys ages 3 & 6. Well the next day my son wakes up with a cough . I figured he probably was just getting little cold until my friend called and told me her 3 year old has croup . Luckly his 9 month check up was Friday. His doctor listened to his chest and said he sounded fine. Well today he wakes up at 10am his cough sounds a little worse and before I could even feed him he spit up twice. He seems to be acting normal expect that he s already tired. He s still smiling and trying to get into everything. I don t know if he was just cold while I was changing him but his skin looked a little blotchy. I only have a forehead thermometer which I get like 3 different readings all around 97.2 and 97.8. I am a stay at home mom with no car and I started googling stuff so now I am freaked out please help
Sat, 30 Mar 2013
Hi,
Thank you for your query.
It appears that your son has contracted an infection from the other children. The forehead thermometer is not a reliable method of measuring the temperature and does give different readings. I suggest that you give your son some decongestant/cough syrup three times a day and observe. In case there is no improvement then he will need to be seen by the doctor who shall advise accordingly.
I hope I have answered your query to your satisfaction.
Wishing your son an early recovery.
Regards,
Rajiv K Khandelwal
http://goo.gl/SuCjl
Thank you for your query.
It appears that your son has contracted an infection from the other children. The forehead thermometer is not a reliable method of measuring the temperature and does give different readings. I suggest that you give your son some decongestant/cough syrup three times a day and observe. In case there is no improvement then he will need to be seen by the doctor who shall advise accordingly.
I hope I have answered your query to your satisfaction.
Wishing your son an early recovery.
Regards,
Rajiv K Khandelwal
http://goo.gl/SuCjl
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Hi,
Thanks for writing to health care magic.
Please note that in a child with cough the following indicate that the child requires medical attention immediately.
1. Fast breathing
2. chest indrawing
3. Nasal flaring ( The lateral walls of the nose move laterally with respiration)
4. Bluish discoloration of fingers
5. Poor feeding
6. Vomiting
7. Not accepting feed
8. Lethargy or increased irritability
So I request you to monitor your kid for the above and report to ER in the presence of any of the above.
Hope this helps.
Take care.
Thanks for writing to health care magic.
Please note that in a child with cough the following indicate that the child requires medical attention immediately.
1. Fast breathing
2. chest indrawing
3. Nasal flaring ( The lateral walls of the nose move laterally with respiration)
4. Bluish discoloration of fingers
5. Poor feeding
6. Vomiting
7. Not accepting feed
8. Lethargy or increased irritability
So I request you to monitor your kid for the above and report to ER in the presence of any of the above.
Hope this helps.
Take care.
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