Hello
My son is very unwell. He has:
- had a temperature since Tuesday, which I bring down with Calpol and Nurofen but which pops up everytime
- very congested, streaming nose, slightly infected ear (says doctor), sore tonsils (says doctor) but not coughing really
- wakes repeatedly betewen 11pm and 6am, for up to 3 hours, screaming, hurling himself against me, against the wall, refuses to lie down at all, is hysterical, and so loud the whole house is awake, including step son two floors down. He will scream for up to an hour at a time.
I am giving him Calpol and Nurofen around tea time and then at around 10:30 at night, to try and get him through the night painlessly but often I need to give him even more Calpol around 3-4am. I hate giving him so much medicine. He's had an awful lot of Calpol and Nurofen since July (molar teething was bad) and I just hate having to administer it on such a regular basis.
- I am unable to console him which is unusual
- bites and chews as if teething, but his eye teeth are just through and only the last four molars are left and they are miles off by the looks of it.
This follows a two month period of an infection in the sinus passage leading away from the nose, which took 2 weeks to be picked up and was treated by antibiotics, a nasty coughing/congested cold that seemed to come to an end at the end of last week that left his struggling to breathe at nights but was nowhere near as bad as now, and also the four eye teeth came through which caused discomfort.
I have never come across such hysterical behaviour at night, along with a four day temperature. The doctor says 'viral cold, will pass, may take up to six weeks, use decongstants a lot'.
Anyone have any thoughts?
p.s. and yes, I am the poor sod whose daughter just had chicken pox, who is expecting son to come down with it next week, and whose husbands special birthday is this weekend!!!!