not covid - done a few tests
I started with some horrid illness at the end of last week. Muscle weakness, achey all over, hideous phlegmy cough, nausea, sleeping all day etc.. ive actually never been as poorly and only yesterday starting to feel more normal.
My son had a bit of a runny nose all week but seemed fine so i hoped he'd gotten away with it. All week he's had no temperature, no cough, not unhappy, weeing and eating well still etc.. and nursery had said he was happy all day there.
He is 3yo.
Yesterday they called and said he had gone down hill in the afternoon and wasn't well.
I got him home and he's just taken a nosedive from how he was all week. He fell asleep on the sofa and has barely been awake since. He keeps having high temps of 40 which calpol and nurpfen barely seem to shift if at all. He won't drink although I did manage to get him to eat an ice lolly last night, his eyes are red and puffy when he is awake.
He's been asleep with me all night and woke up about an hour ago in what I presume was a fever induced hallucination of some sort as he was screaming about pizza of all things saying to go away. I tried to cuddle him but he was SO hot, like it was making me sweat just being near him. I've given him more medication and he's back to sleep now but it's not seemingly touching the temp and he's breathing quite fast and just murmuring to himself in his sleep and coughing.
I feel so awful for him I don't know what to do. When he was about 1 he did contract bronch and was admitted to hospital with it for a number of days and since then he does get things badly on his chest.
Should I just keep trying the calpol / nurofen or should I try and find an OOH for him? I know they will probably say just a virus but he's so unwell 😢