Double Ear Infection, Cold, Cough

So Lilly caught her daddy's cold which then morphed into a double ear infection. Mark got sick the Wednesday before Mardi Gras and had the cold for about a week. Lilly then picked up his cough and runny nose, earlier this week, but that's all it was. Now mind you, our house was a bit banged up, as I slipped on our front steps last Saturday night (luckily after riding in our Mardi Gras Parade) and fractured my left foot and sprained my left ankle. So the Kitner-Mintz household wasn't in the best physical shape (now I've picked up the cold and battling out with my sinuses).

But back to Lilly. She took a turn Friday. She didn't want to eat. She was fussier than usual. And really slept a whole lot more. Saturday morning she woke up just not being a happy camper. She cried. She still didn't want to eat. And when she did eat an ounce she threw it back up, all over JJ. So we called the doctor, thank goodness they have Saturday sick hours, got an appt. for 9:10 and went over there. Dr. G, our normal doctor, was on call. She listened to Lilly's chest and then looked in her ears before diagnosing her with a double ear infection. She said Lilly is so stopped up that its hard for her to breathe, thus the not eating. And she's got so much mucus in her we can expect to see a change in her stools (not for the better) and with all the mucus it was difficult to drain and thus the ear infection. I had horrible ear infections growing up, I had 4 sets of tubes. I just hope Lilly isn't saddled with them. They are not fun.

So we got a prescription for Amoxicilin, the bubble gum tasting medicine and are to dispense it twice a day to the doodlebug. She fights us on it - she does not like the taste, and thus you can see the pink stain on her pjs. We are going to have to start putting it in her bottle so she can get it that way. But we can definitely see her feeling better. She not as fussy, and her congestion has decreased. We've got a follow up appt. in 10 days to reasses the ears. So hopefully we'll get the all clear sign!