Julia has had a high fever since Friday. The pedi said at our appt on Saturday that it was just a virus. It has now been 6 days and she is still running a high fever. So we went back to the pedi today. The pedi was also concerned that the fever is dragging on this long. Her ears are clear, her heart and lungs sound fine. Her throat was a little red, but nothing to indicate she caught the strep throat I had last week. But they took a swab of her throat anyway and are culturing it overnight. They also collected a urine sample to rule out a UTI. The initial tests looked fine, but they are also going to culture it overnight.
The pedi said he is not sure the cause of the fever. If the cultures are negative tomorrow and Julia is still running a fever, they would be doing bloodwork to figure this out.
This afternoon, her temp spiked up to 104.2!!! Luckily it was time for another dose of Motrin and once that kicked in, the fever came down. She is not eating well, but she is luckily still drinking. It is times like this that I am glad she is on the chunky side, so I don't have to worry about too much weight loss on top of everything else.
I am worried about my baby.....
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