WWYD--sick kid

bride2b81404

So my older daughter seems to get sick very easily. Last yr she had strep like 3 times. This yr she has been with the stomach bug often. Anyway Monday she cries at drop off that she doesn't feel well she hasn't done this in a long time. So I take her and bring her to the dr.  She did have a cough which she always has. She was in breathing treatments a week before. So dr look at her and she has a cold. We go home and her throat starts getting horse and raspy, she doesn't eat.  During the night she ends up with a fever. She also threw up but I was thinking from the cough.  I give her a little juice and five min later she throws it up. Right away I think she has strep. Every time she has strep she vomits a lot. I also feel like I am over reacting. My dh and friend say get her test. I am like we were just there yesterday. She is acting fine this morning but still has a fever 

Should I bring her in 

CrisA0922

Is she eating/drinking. I just took Olivia in...she was acting normally except for a low grade fever and not really wanting her bottle (which isn't that odd for her she's not a drinker). Turns out she had strep. It can't hurt to take her in...especially if she's prone to that type of infection.

Liz051405

Did they do a culture yesterday? If not and these are the symptoms she always has, call them. My philosophy on docs is to trust your instincts. The docs are there to help. I never worry about wasting their time. On more than one occasion a doc has told me they'd rather waster their time on a healthy patient than not see a sick one because the parents didn't want to waste their time.

MegGary

I'd get her treated if she is still running a fever. I'm surprised they didn't just test her right than & there. 

Maybe talk w/ her school & see if there is something you can do as far as making sure her hands are cleaned more often. Poor kid.  

mrs.marie.g

my kids been sick for like three weeks but no fever. so when he didn't have a fever i wasn't sure what to do.

well i took him back to the ped AGAIN today after being their last friday and the following monday.

he's got an ear infection.

i say call the ped and see what they say. they may just prescribe something. or want to see her for a test. i had strep REALLY bad as an adult. required an er visit i was in so much god damn pain they gave me a morphine drip.(they thought it was an abscess at first) i NEVER mess with strep. she will be in so much pain if it goes untreated and can lead to so many other issues

(my white blood cell count was WAY down) i couldn't eat or drink. and needed two bags of iv fluids. and this was as an adul;t. i can NEVER EVER imagine my kids feeling the way i felt. (cause seriously i thought i was going to die)

i say call the ped.

knittygrl

I would totally call due to the fever and vomiting which was not there when you brought her yesterday.  It's tricky with kids.  One day it is just a cold and the next it is a full on ear infection or strep or something else.  Ugh it's hard to know when they are small.  I was at the ped 4 out of 5 days last week.  Granted my daughter is only 3 months but in those 4 days she got 3 different diagnoses.