Fever go away

As I am typing this, I actually on my second day of holiday...hmmm...what a nice feeling. Pang, wake up to reality. No, I am not really on holiday but instead I am on my second day of emergency leave. Yes, you heard me. Hanif Aiden is down with fever these past few days, so I had to put away my jobs and focus on him. He started off with a flu last weekend but on Sunday night, his temperature started to hike. He couldn't sleep well and wake up between hours because of his blocked nose. Poor boy :( I think my baby got a fever probably because of teething. Yes...he has 3 teeth now!! One tooth already showing half way up and another two teeth just started showing its surface. He's growing up so fast!! Soon we know, he will be in school and Mommy starts to count wrinkles on her face. Hmmphh.

He is such a happy baby, always smile when we make jokes/faces and hey, he'd even smile back if you're smiling to him. But on his fever, he just frown and even we gave him toys, he just look at it blankly. Hmmphh..Mommy is sad :( he is so crancky and wanted to be carried all time. It breaks my heart to see him in such condition. If we adults feel uncomfortable during fever, let alone babies...huuaaaa. 

Despite the cool air cond, wet cloths on his forehead, his temperature doesn't seem to go down. That's it, we went to Klinik Perdana in Taman Puncak Jalil yesterday for the check up. I've been going there from my pregnancy check-ups and we just love the lady doctors there. Oh my, there are so many people at the clinic! After only like an hour or so then only it's our turn. 

                                   

                                   

                                   

                                       

Doctor prescribed us medicine for his flu (the one that you insert on the nostrils) and a fever syrup. We tried not to give him the syrup best possible and tried to lower his temperature in traditional ways. You know, like soak him longer during bath time, keep the air cond on, wiped with wet cloth and stuff. We'd even put on children's cool fever on his forehead and back head. Oh yeah, noted, you can't put cool fever on children's forehead for long time as it may lead all the heat to be collected there and it may damaging the brain. All of these were lead to no avail and that's it, we had to give him the syrup. My baby swallowed it ok and his temperature seemed to lower down a bit last night. We still continuously checking the temperature hoping that it will not rise and Alhamdulillah, he slept soundly last night.

                         

                         

As for today, he seems quite ok but still cranky because of his runny nose and a little cough. Oh boy, that doesn't stop him from being active. He is now practicing to stand on his own! Numbers of falling drama and head bumps to the floor but he did not give up. As I write this, an hour ago he just fell off his baby cot!! Luckily the floor is carpeted it somehow minimize the impact but still! Haih lah this boy. It happened right in front of my eyes. He cried a bit but stop when I picked him up. Such a brave boy! I don't think he will ever giving up from doing that again, so, my husband took off the upper part of the cot making it like a playpen now.  

For runny nose, I'd usually use traditional medicine that is to use fresh tumeric on his forehead as turmeric will help to dry up the mucus. You doing it by taking a fresh turmeric and peel the skin off and then draw (yes draw, imagine you're using a chalk) vertically from the bridge of the nose up to the forehead until it forms a line. Not like a tiny dot like the Indians wear. 

We might want to do steam percussion as it is effective to clear the blockage. We did quite a few times before this and it works! The flames will either coming out through vomit, nose or even from his poop. The one thing I hate about doing this is to listen to his crying when the hot steam covered his face although that is actually the point. Sometimes, I just did the percussion on his right and left of baby's backside minus the hot steam. It seems to work too although not immediately, but few hours after that, you can actually see his green cendol-like slimy mucus flowing out from his nose. You can YouTube how to do it correctly without hurting the baby. I learned this from my doctor sister. Do not do it direct to your baby's back because baby's backbone is still soft and you might injured it. If you go to hospital, apart from nebuliser, the doctors will actually do this percussion thing to clear the lung. Because nebuliser actually only clear the upper part of the flame not entirely suck them all out. So, by doing this percussion it actually enhance the process  by making the mucus/flame lighter/thinner so it could be easily out. 

           

Hopefully Hanif Aiden will get well soon so Mommy can go back to work without worries. Yes, as much as I love the idea of staying at home taking care of him, I still has to work, gotta earn to give the best for Hanif Aiden. Amin.