Caleb did.
When he first developed the fever on Sunday, we didn’t think much about it, only perhaps he’d caught something; maybe from his sister.
But you wouldn’t know it.
Caleb has been running around being his cheeky self, toddling around in circles at tv jingles, walking after HM when he sees her, playing and demanding the toys that Caitlin is playing (and Caitlin demanding it back). If you didn’t touch him, he certainly wasn’t showing any of the visual signs of suffering from fever.
Naturally worried, we took him to the nearby children’s clinic Tuesday evening- yup, it was already 36 hours since the fever started. The pediatrician kinda went “Yup, fever”, poked a spatula making Caleb puke on his floor, “Yup, sore throat, and stuffed nose too” and charged me RM80 for making us wait for him almost 3 hours (when we registered him we were told to come back in an hour. We did, and still had to wait our turn), and prescribed paracetamol and rhinothiol, two of which you can already buy from your neighbourhood pharmacy, and also what Dr Pixie‘s already prescribed before.
Yesterday, Wednesday, his fever had subsided. Again, you wouldn’t know it because of his still normal (ie high!) level of energy. Last night in the lift on the way upstairs, HM was carrying him. He had knocked out- and I still thought Why not, he’s probably lethargic from the fever. I had noticed Caleb had rashes starting from his jawline going down under his pj’s collar. Since he was already asleep I didn’t endevour to examine him, and subsequently forgotten about checking him at all when he did wake for a while.
I made a conscious decision not to administer any more medication, since the fever was going away, and let his own defenses fight the other symptoms.
Today at work Grandma calls me and says the rashes seem to be getting worse. Since HM was mobile today, I left it to her to administer to the little man.
Tonite, after coming home from work and a work-related function, HM tells me that she had spent some time looking for another children’s clinic, and was about to go to a further suburb when Dr Pixie returned call (Dr Pixie’s hours were later in the evening, at the other side of KL, during very peak rush hour). Spoke to Dr Pixie about Caleb’s condition, and without mentioning beyond “Caleb’s got a rash and he’d just recovered from fever”, Dr Pixie correctly asked questions related to all the above conditions-
“Did he have fever for 3 days?”
“Yes…”
“Did he otherwise act all normal?”
“Yes..”
“The rash doesn’t seem to be annoying him in anyway, right?”
“No..”
She called it roseola infantum
Without reading all the contents of the above link to Wikipedia, HM says Dr Pixie said:
- that kids aged under 3 get it;
- there’s really nothing we can do;
- nor need to do, and
- it will go away eventually; probably also in 3 days.
Good thing Caleb left his mess on the dr’s floor. Honestly that was our second visit to that clinic with Caleb, both times the 2 different dr’s got their diagnosis wrong.
It’s very worrying when the kids fall ill!!! WHy does this fake measles hit almost every kid I wonder!
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Really? Every kid you know?
This was so new to us that we did have a panic attack, a slow attach but still!
My little boy had roseola when he was around a year old. When I called the pediatrician’s office the day he developed the rash I didn’t even get through my sentence describing the fever for 3 days then the rash 3 days later before the nurse said, “Roseola!” So it’s pretty common, and apparently not really a big deal. Did you know it’s a form of the herpes virus? At least it’s one of those things they (should) only get once!
Hi Ashley,
Thanks for dropping by my blog
A form of herpes?? OH MY!
hai….i a mom to a 9 mths 2 weeks baby boy…this is my 1st child…this what precisely same situation that i face now…me & my husband was so worried that we didn’t sleep thru 3 nights on a row just because of taking care of our lil baby boy..
I woke up in a fine morning, as usual i would kiss & TLC my baby..when i touch his forehead, it burns,the neck & the ample also super hot..not knowing whats going on..we immediately gone to see a child & baby specialist which cost me almost rm200….
When the nurse check his temperature, they immediately ask me to go to another room & ask me to strip my baby off so they wrap him with this towels around him..i was so sad,almost cry thou…they put a panadol in his anus, they said it will help to reduce the fever..my baby temperature was then shoot to almost 38….
The doc said it might be these 3 sickness…
1. common flu/sore throat
2.measles
3.lungs problem!! OMG
So they take my baby urine sample & promise to call me back after the result….so a few hours they did called me & turn to be negative in everything…so it was a relieve…
BUT……
Atfer all that, my baby boy had 3 days on & off high fever, the doc prescribe me this orange Nurofen,uphamol 120 & zithromax antibiotic. we followed everything, feed my baby the right amount & the time. I even bought a standby panadol to put in his anus if the bad fever is ever occurs again…i bought myself a thermometer just to check his temperature then do the towel wrapping our own.
After 3 days…i notice that my baby high fever was gone & he was active & laughing,talking & etc…but then what bother me the most is, i notice this small dots like rashes *ruam merah* all over his face but none seen in his body yet…sooooooo if anybody kind enough sharing a good thoughts or maybe a tips with me, i would really appreciate it…
so my big question is, is this normal?
Big Thanks
concern mother….GBU everyone
Yeah My son just gotten his fever,after going to see the
doctors about it 2 days later BAM he have gotten the rash.On his
2nd day with the rash atm but the Doctors also said its some kind
of virus that every kids under certain age gets. Hope this might
help some people
Thank you, thank you, thank you. My kiddo just woke up from a nap covered in this rash. Fever went away last night. Now I can stop worrying.
That’s good to hear, Wendy
It is common for any child under the age of two to get a rash during or after any sort of viral illness. It is the body’s way of getting rid of a virus that does not happen as often in adults.
My daughter is 16 months old and had a fever two days ago her appitite is not good an today I notice a heat rash type dots from in her diaper to her neck an now her fore head any sugestions
My 2 year old had a fever for 3 days from teething and the 4th day developed a rash like the ones described above. Worried, I went online to research what it could be and came across this website. I was very relieved to read many similar stories relating to my child’s symptoms. Thanks dadeeyah.com!