Bout After Bout of Flu

There seems to be a series of flu outbreaks going on over the last few months and poor gabe managed to catch a few bouts. This is his third. To make things worse, this particular episode involves a yoyo-like temperature. After the initial wave died down in a day, it returned in a low-grade but persistent form.

With his cough getting more intense (derod's doctor uncle said rule of thumb was that if the child started coughing in the night, it's time to visit the pediatrician), we decided to take a trot down to the PD. Turns out the boy's got an ear infection. According to PD, if a child's fever returns after subsiding, it usually signals a secondary cause, so though gabe started out with the flu it's the ear infection that's the culprit now.

The visit ended on a rather interesting note, for me. I asked if any food should be laid off and PD said that other than cold foods/ drinks, "which you shouldn't be giving to him anyway", the rest should be fine. It sounded like a warning, a statement to fish out any bad parent behaviour and a piece of advise all at once. I'm just thankful for the encouragement that I've been doing the right thing in restricting his diet all this while.

Oh, and on a separate note, I wish I had a picture of him after a sneeze, with two channels of mucus down from his nostrils. If I had it, it'll have fronted this post :=p