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My mum, very fully active, vital 75 yrs old lady who was never ill until 2022.
Last week Thursday she went for Tetanus jab and also had an annual check up blood test Crp, this was 105.
Gp contacted her Friday morning saying seems like some infection and gave her Amoxyclav antibiotics as my mum mentioned she had cough for approximately 2 weeks so GP thought crp is high cos of that.
On Monday mum went for another blood test and crp went to 147.
On Tuesday it was repeated and crp went to 178.
Gp sent mum to local hospital for more blood tests.
They did some liver function, this was bilirubin 16.8, ast 0.67, alp 2.46, ggt0.92.
Leukocytes 11.17..the rest of fbc was normal.
They don't know what it could be.
She has no symptoms. Feeling well, eats well, no symptoms no pain.
Only the cough.
The cough is so much bad now when she speaks on phone, she gets heavy cough fit after every word.
She says its nonstop tickles in her throat.
They say chest clear, apparently had xray, ok too.
Also had ultrasound on her liver and around, all normal.
She has pacemaker since 2022 when she had hip op and heart failure after the operation they said it was mixture of the op drugs caused it.
They also checked the pacemaker on Tuesday- apparently ok.
They said have no idea what's wrong.
They did covid, flu etc tests, all negative.
She is alone on the infectious diseases ward ( abroad)
Nobody knows what will happen.
They gave her IV antibiotics Cefuruxim I worry she has pneumonia ...
I spoke with the dr - she thinks some autoimmune illness but not sure.
Mum has absolutely no symptoms. She says if she had not had the first blood test last week, she wouldn't have know ...