The last week has been very hectic and a bit scary in the Zink household. We started Will on the nebulizer last Thursday and he seemed to be doing well with that. Saturday night he came down with 104.7 fever. We called the doctor's and they said to give him some Tylenol and check his temperature in two hours. The fever decreased but on Sunday morning when he woke up his eyes were glued shut. We called the doctors office again and they said to bring him in. He was given another nebulizor medication to add to his regime and some eye drops.
Sunday night his fever was up to 105.1 so the doctor's recommended we take him to the Emergency Room. After being there for 5 hours, he was diagnosed with Severe Bronchiolitis. They did a chest radiograph and an RSV/ flu swab and all three of those were negative. He was sent home with some steroids and alternating Tylenol and Motrin for the fever.
We went for a recheck at the Pediatricians on Monday and they said he was still pretty wheezy so we were to nebulize every 4 hours around the clock. This morning while I was nebulizing him I noticed he was breathing really fast and was using his abdomen to breathe. I called the doctors and they had me give him a second treatment. Once we saw there was no change with the second treatment, they recommended we take him back to the Emergency Room. 2 1/2 hours later we were discharged with no additional medications. But they reassured us that everything we were doing was what we needed to do to get him better.
8 days later we may be finally seeing some improvement. We did not hear much coughing at all overnight last night and he ate a descent dinner and breakfast today. Surprisingly with as sick as he has been, he has still been his happy self for the most part. Once we overcome this bug the doctors are planning to keep him on a nebulizing medication once a day for the duration of the winter. I guess this is farely common, especially in preemies. It has been mentioned that this is how asthma starts in babies, but we are keeping are fingers crossed that he has just got another cold that went right to his chest. Hopefully he will be 100% healthy really soon; it is so hard to see your baby so sick.
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Sending big hugs to the little guy. Feel better soon Will.
Eleanor came down with bronchiolitis herself this week, although not as severe a case as Will's. Although I've treated patients with bronchiolitis, I've found it's a completely different thing to see your own child not be able to breathe well!
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