So Noodles has been quite the fussy boy as of late. I changed his button all by myself last Friday (go me!) but was worried that his skin around the button was looking a bit irritated by late that night. All weekend long I applied bacitracin to try and get it to heal. He was also running a low-grade fever of 99.3-99.7.....so i wasn't shocked when the pediatrician wouldn't give him his RSV shot yesterday (since LJ can get pneumonia easily we've gotten approved to have the RSV shot each month during the winter season so this was a routine schedule appointment). In fact, she confirmed that he had cellulitis. If we gave him the shot, his body was trying to fight off something and the respiratory vaccine would most likely be ineffective. So off we went to the GI doctor to confirm our fear.
For me the highlight of the description linked above is "left untreated, the spreading bacterial infection may rapidly turn into a life-threatening condition."
I guess now's not the time to get all hippie health food with the homemade carafate paste and hot compresses. My initial response is always just to let things run their course, but when running its course = death, I have only the mommy worry to thank for the motivation. Thank goodness for heavy-duty antibiotics like Keflex! At least we got the go-ahead to give Noodles probiotics in his formula everyday. Hopefully that will help balance out his digestive system with 10 days of antibiotics. And we've deferred the RSV shot until next week.
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