Jac was sick with this cold that he and I caught in LA for weeks! Jac went to the doctor for this cold 5 times! A nasty cold like this one is tough for a little one!
He got an ear infection - which was really almost inevitable when he was congested for 2 solid weeks! Dr. B and I avoided giving him antibiotics for as long as we could but finally we had to do it. The antibiotics helped his ears and his congestion almost immediately but unfortunately they had a rather nasty, and common, side effect.
Within a couple of hours of starting the antibiotics his poop changed colors, from its normal formula baby green, to brown. Tummy flora, gone!
By the day after he started the antibiotics he had started to develop a very raw looking diaper area and by the day after that he was shaking when I cleaned his diaper area! Bad!
We called the nurses at Children's Hospital and took him to see the doctor. We started giving him daily baths (which he hates!) and rinsing his diaper area with water at each diaper change and within 48 hours his diaper area looked almost back to normal. Yeah! It was so hard to see his diaper area so raw, he was so unhappy! He is feeling much better now though and the ear infection seems to be gone also.
We are giving him probiotics to try to help his tummy get back to normal. I found a liquid, soy based one, at Whole Foods. Hopefully once he gets off of the antibiotics (tomorrow is his last day) the probiotics will help his little tummy recover its normal flora!
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