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She's been running a fever since last Wednesday and she's been coughing with a runny nose. I called the pediatrician on Thursday to ask if Abby should be seen. By this point, her temp was starting to climb towards 103 under her arm where I take it. The nurse said it sounds like the flu and Abby should be fine in a couple of days. Friday her temp was mild all day to the point I thought it had broken. Saturday, same thing up until 3 AM Sunday morning, when it went up again to 103. I took her to the pediatrician yesterday. It's not flu, it's not strep they said. Take her home, make sure she's comfy and if it's not gone by Wednesday (WHAT??) bring her back. Well after we got home, her temp went up to 103.4 and I gave her Mortrin. The Motrin brought it down and she was acting fine but I noticed what I will call welts (too big to be hives unless she had a ton of them all bunched together) on the backs of her legs and little ones on her arms. I gave Abby some Benadryl so she wouldn't scratch them and so she could get some sleep since it was now bedtime. At 11 last night, she woke up again with that high fever (not over 103 this time but pretty close 102.7). Instead of giving her the Motrin (since the number one allergy listed on the bottle was hives) I gave her tylenol again. The fever finally came down and she slept the rest of the night. Right now, her fever is low grade (only 100) but instead of acting normal, like she usually does at this temp, she's in the living room not moving. The welts have gone down but her skin is red where they were and now she's got diarrhea on top of everything else. What in the world has she got? Not only am I taking her back to the pediatricians office today, but I also have a call into the nurse "triage unit" (called them about 45 minutes ago and still waiting for a call back). I couldn't believe that I walked out of that office yesterday and they said give it to Wednesday. Hello!!! My child is sick. Don't shove cotton swabs up her nose and down her throat and say that's all you can do since both tests are negative. Something is wrong and if I have to take her to the ER, I am not going to be happy about it (nor will Abby). Abby is Autistic and is still afraid of the hospital (she has been since my father got sick and died from Cancer in 04) no matter how many times me and her daddy go in but come out fine. Can you imagine how bad she'll be if I have to take her for her illness?
Sorry this is so long. Thanks for listening to me.
***UPDATE*** I just got home from taking Abby to the doctor again. As expected, they did another flu swab, which came back negative. But as I was talking to the doctor, she mentioned something about Abby going to the bathroom. When I mentioned that Abby told me at one point that it burned when she went, the doctor wanted Abby to pee in a cup. Based on preliminary results (only those the doctors office could get - normal or abnormal) they think that somewhere during the last week or so, Abby did have the flu and or the cold that's going around, hence the negative result now, but that she also has a UTI, keeping the fever going and keeping it high. The urine will be sent out for more extensive testing and they'll get back to me with the results. If it's not a UTI, then Abby will have to go for bloodwork, but the doctor doesn't feel it will come to that. In the meantime though, she has been put on an antibiotic, which hopefully will help with everything. And now I am so so glad that I wanted to take her back today and not wait until mid week.
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I'd say it's the flu. From what I've heard around here, this flu isn't so much a sick stomach kind, but the fever, feeling really bad kind.
The bumps/welts could be lymph nodes that are inflamed?
I agree. It's probably the flu. I am home today (again) with DD5. Took her to the doctor on Saturday and she has the flu. Lot's of Motrin and Tylenol flu. I've scrubbed the house down three days in a row now. Lysol is my new best friend. Good luck. I hope Abby feels better.
There is so much going around right now. My kids recently had the strangest stomach virus but that's another topic A lot of kids in my DDs school have been sick with what sounds like something similar to what Abby has. High fever, lethargic, etc. for a couple of days or up to a week. At one time on Shannon's (age 9) basketball team three of their best players were down with it and missed a week of school and 3 games (these girls don't miss games or school the day of games for anything they are very competitive so they were REALLY sick )! They are all better now and back at school/sports. It's a tough virus and scary but it will most likely run it's course. I hope Abby feels better soon.
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It sounds like a different strain of the flu, but not the flu per se-her nasal swabs would have come back positive if that were the case & you would have been given flu meds such as Tamiflu to help with the symptoms.
I'd continue giving her tylenol every four hours and push the fluids as much as you can.
If the triage nurse doesn't call you back within 15 minutes (making it an hour total) call them again. The squeaky wheel gets oiled.
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A lot of kids in my DDs school have been sick with what sounds like something similar to what Abby has. High fever, lethargic, etc. for a couple of days or up to a week. At one time on Shannon's (age 9) basketball team three of their best players were down with it and missed a week of school and 3 games (these girls don't miss games or school the day of games for anything they are very competitive so they were REALLY sick 
)! They are all better now and back at school/sports. It's a tough virus and scary but it will most likely run it's course. I hope Abby feels better soon.
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