Lucas is Sick :(

Just a few days back I was commenting on how good breast milk was in building up Lucas's immunity, now he is sick! :(

Last Tuesday he got infected with viral fever, the temperature was still quite ok during the day ranging from 37.5 to 38.5 degree. By 8pm, he hit 39.8 degree, for a moment I thought my thermoscan was spoilt!
Quickly rush him down to the GP and it was really 39.2 degree. Doctor gave us some medication to bring the fever down and he did a urine test. Thank god there isn't any infection.

By 3am, he hit 41 degree, I almost got a shock. How can it be so high when his urine test is normal. I quickly wake Des up, get changed and rush to KK. As usual, given medication on the spot and they placed a urine bag on him to do another test again. We waited for 3 hours before Lucas urinated!! Phew!! But luckily he passed the test.
The doctor reckon that this is just viral fever which will last for 3-4 days with the temperature going very high up for the 1-2 days. She advised that if Lucas's feeding is ok and he is still alert, there isn't a need to go to the doctor every now and then when we see a high reading on the thermoscan (this would just make us more frustrated). We can give him medication to control the temperature (don't let it go beyond 38.5 degree) and sponge him to bring the fever down. The main area to sponge would be forehead, neck, armpit and groin. These are the areas where the big blood vessels are.

Finally his fever was gone by Thursday midnight. However, by Friday evening, rashes started to appear on his tummy. According to my mum, this is normal but I never see such things before, so was quite concern. The next day, we went to GP again and before I could ask he already know why I was there :)
Gave us some anti-itch medication saying that the rashes will go away in a few days time. This is commonly known as false measles which is normal after a viral fever attack.

Before the rashes are gone, he is now down with diarrhoea. OMG!!! My poor poor Lucas is being hit by so many sickness one after another. His butt is all red and sore now.. dare not even sit on the floor and wants to be carry on the while. Won't even let Des carry him cos he didn't manage to handle him properly and hurt his butt...
Hope he recovers soon!