March 23rd, 2011 | Posted by acidicice

Somehow we managed to break Babyice’s fever yesterday after he had been to the doctor. Rudi gave him Panado syrup and some ice cream. We had been giving him Ponstel as I found he responded better to that than Panado when he was feverish before, so we didn’t even try the Panado this time around. That was kind of silly actually. We should have at least *tried* the Panado since the Ponstel doesn’t have paracetemol in it. Not sure whether it was the Panado or ice cream that broke the fever, but that isn’t particularly important. You live and you learn!

After his fever broke he was much more pleasant and happier in general. His appetite still isn’t great, but since he has a throat infection his throat must be very sore. Getting the antibiotics down is quite a struggle. It smells nice, but it definitely doesn’t taste nice. It’s very bitter and for some reason he has to take 10 ml at a time, which is quite a lot of yucky stuff to drink! Then 5 ml of Panado/Ponstan (or both, but I prefer to alternate them four hourly), 2.5 ml of Deselex, 5 Reuturi drops and 50 ml of water mixed with a sachet of powder for his runny tummy. That’s a lot of medicine for such a small boy!

Then what does his daddy do? His daddy confused the sachets and gives him a laxative instead of the runny tummy medicine! *facepalm* Luckily it doesn’t seem to have done any damage and his tummy isn’t runnying badly at all…yet (this happened today while I was at work).

I’m so glad he is feeling better now. I can’t wait till he gets his appetite back. He usually eats very well, so when he doesn’t eat at all it is very worrying.

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