Bite-bite by the fever bugs

I was just talking to my friend, moolet,the day before about her little boy who was having some viral fever and did not expect my little cheeky boy to be biten too!

It was just another ordinary Thursday night and while I was preparing Darrius to sleep, I felt his little body was warmer than normal. Told PiggyBeng about my concern that Darrius might have a slight fever. Shortly after I brought him up to our room, I decided to give him some Paracetamol to suppress his fever. However, before I could finish feeding him (he was crying hysterically and wriggling away) he threw everything out including his supper (cereal) like an open tap! Then we have to clean him up and decided to wait and see if his temperature will go back to normal but did not give him another dose of Paracetamol. Instead I stick a Kool-fever on his little forehead and hope the fever will subside eventually…. too bad it did not!

At about 5am, Darrius’s temperature seemed to have gone higher (did not have time to use the thermometer instead using hand feel). Quickly, we went downstairs and gave him another dose of Paracetamol. Again, he was screaming like crazy! Luckily this round we managed to feed him the entire dose by using a syringe. Then we went back to sleep… but I can’t really sleep… was rather worried.

Darrius woke up around 9.15am but he was rather active although his body was still a little warm but not as warm as earlier. He climbed down from the bed and reached for his toys and was playing when PiggyBeng called to find out how Darrius was doing. Told PiggyBeng that Darrius still has fever and PiggyBeng decided to come back early to bring Darrius to the clinic.

Our doctor gave Darrius a dose of dono-what-is-the name pil which he inserted into his anus so his fever will subside quicker than taking any oral medication. True enough, Darrius’s fever was gone after about 2 hours. As he has runny nose as well, the doctor also prescribed some medication for that and our nightmare begin with Darrius kept throwing out after we tried feeding him….

Then I came up with an idea… to feed him the medicine in between his spoons of cereal! This strategy works well as I also gave him some books to distract him and he did not noticed that I have spooned him the medicine as he thought it was his cereal and he actually opened his mouth big-big! It was too late when he actually realised that he has swallowed the liquid! Since then it has been a breeze feeding him his medicine and his fever finally subsided this afternoon.

Though he was sick, he was as active as ever and still bugged us to bring him out! It was hell of a havoc weekend for us (Darrius was more cranky and whinny than usual) and we must thank God that Darrius is fine now… and I can go back to blogging….