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Rough few days...
Date: 2/2/2007
Time now: around...7:31 EST
DD's been fighting a bad cold and it finally got a hold of her something fierce. She sounded horrible on Thursday evening when she woke up from a nap. There was a rattle and wheezing. Luckily her pediatrican told us to come on to the hospital and he'd wait for us. We got to bypass the ER.
He admitted her that night and had chest xrays made, bloodwork done, and an RSV test run.
The RSV test came back positive, she had an elevated white blood cell count, and was dehydrated. She was put on IV antibiotics and IV fluid for dehydration.
Based on the information we gave her pediatrician, he figures as of today she is either in day 2 or day 3 of the RSV issue. If she is in day 2, we can expect her to continue to have breathing treatments, continued breathing problems, and her IV in until this time tomorrow. If she is in day 3, then as her fever comes down (it has been running rather high) he will begin to wean her off the IV as long as she increases her eating (drinking).
If she continues to stay hydrated and eats, we are on the downhill slope and are fortunate it wasn't a "bad" case. I've learned from this, when your child can't breathe because of an abundance of congestion in her head an chest, "bad" is a relative term.
It seems that everyone's first response has been, "Why was she even on Synagis (the RSV shot) if she still got RSV?" Her pediatrician explained that not all immunizations or vaccinations can protect everyone from everything. He thinks the reason her case wasn't as bad as it could have been (like the other children on the hall) is because she was on the shots. I read all of the literature about Synergist before we did the shots. It compared itself to the Flu Shot where they focus on one most common strain to create the vaccination/immunization (whichever is correct...I'm too tired to look it up) and sometimes they miss. PCP and I spent about 20 minutes discussing how medicine isn't an exact science, etc., blah, blah, blah, but I digres...
I'm going to say YEA SHOTS and not think twice about it. I visited for a mintue with a mother of a 6 month old with RSV on the hall. They had progressed to having to have oxygen and breathing treatments every 2 hours. They were contemplating bypassing Macon and sending him on to Atlanta.
We are so lucky. Seriously, L U C K Y .
As long as her fever goes down, she'll be coming home tomorrow. Dave and I both were with her last night, and I was with her today. Dave is at the hospital with DD tonight and CarrierD and I are at home.
Ultimately, I just think we're fortunate to have a pediatrician who errs on the side of caution when it comes to our dear little one's health.
<b>Here are a few questions out there for folks:</b>
1. Has RSV been a trigger for an asymptomatic CF child that you know of?
2. Our PCP has been handling her RSV case since it was, as he put it, "mild" compared to the other kids on the hall, what sort of things should I expect at her clinic appointment on the 13th? (They communicate well.)
3. Do CF children who get RSV culture anything afterward?
4. Why do I feel this is the just the beginning?
Thank you all for reading. I'm about to drop, so I think I'm going to collect my 2 year old, tuck her in, and go to be myself!!!
Em
EDIT:
THANK YOU HEATHER! I was so tired I was stupid about the medication name. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> Have a great one
Date: 2/2/2007
Time now: around...7:31 EST
DD's been fighting a bad cold and it finally got a hold of her something fierce. She sounded horrible on Thursday evening when she woke up from a nap. There was a rattle and wheezing. Luckily her pediatrican told us to come on to the hospital and he'd wait for us. We got to bypass the ER.
He admitted her that night and had chest xrays made, bloodwork done, and an RSV test run.
The RSV test came back positive, she had an elevated white blood cell count, and was dehydrated. She was put on IV antibiotics and IV fluid for dehydration.
Based on the information we gave her pediatrician, he figures as of today she is either in day 2 or day 3 of the RSV issue. If she is in day 2, we can expect her to continue to have breathing treatments, continued breathing problems, and her IV in until this time tomorrow. If she is in day 3, then as her fever comes down (it has been running rather high) he will begin to wean her off the IV as long as she increases her eating (drinking).
If she continues to stay hydrated and eats, we are on the downhill slope and are fortunate it wasn't a "bad" case. I've learned from this, when your child can't breathe because of an abundance of congestion in her head an chest, "bad" is a relative term.
It seems that everyone's first response has been, "Why was she even on Synagis (the RSV shot) if she still got RSV?" Her pediatrician explained that not all immunizations or vaccinations can protect everyone from everything. He thinks the reason her case wasn't as bad as it could have been (like the other children on the hall) is because she was on the shots. I read all of the literature about Synergist before we did the shots. It compared itself to the Flu Shot where they focus on one most common strain to create the vaccination/immunization (whichever is correct...I'm too tired to look it up) and sometimes they miss. PCP and I spent about 20 minutes discussing how medicine isn't an exact science, etc., blah, blah, blah, but I digres...
I'm going to say YEA SHOTS and not think twice about it. I visited for a mintue with a mother of a 6 month old with RSV on the hall. They had progressed to having to have oxygen and breathing treatments every 2 hours. They were contemplating bypassing Macon and sending him on to Atlanta.
We are so lucky. Seriously, L U C K Y .
As long as her fever goes down, she'll be coming home tomorrow. Dave and I both were with her last night, and I was with her today. Dave is at the hospital with DD tonight and CarrierD and I are at home.
Ultimately, I just think we're fortunate to have a pediatrician who errs on the side of caution when it comes to our dear little one's health.
<b>Here are a few questions out there for folks:</b>
1. Has RSV been a trigger for an asymptomatic CF child that you know of?
2. Our PCP has been handling her RSV case since it was, as he put it, "mild" compared to the other kids on the hall, what sort of things should I expect at her clinic appointment on the 13th? (They communicate well.)
3. Do CF children who get RSV culture anything afterward?
4. Why do I feel this is the just the beginning?
Thank you all for reading. I'm about to drop, so I think I'm going to collect my 2 year old, tuck her in, and go to be myself!!!
Em
EDIT:
THANK YOU HEATHER! I was so tired I was stupid about the medication name. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> Have a great one