My 2 year old last week ended up with a stye in her left eye - was quite red and inflamed and she had a pus filled lump in her eyelid - we managed to do warm compresses and it has now almost gone.
However, by Friday last week at about 2.30pm had a call from my daughters nursery saying she had barely eaten, struggled to go to sleep and was very tearful and had a temp. I collected her not long after the call and she came out with tears running down her face but was glad to see me and her sister.
Since Friday she’s got progressively worse - all she wants is apple juice and milk, she’s managed two evening meals since Friday and had tolerated jelly/grapes/puff crisps/sweeties/ice cream (not ideal I know). Over the weekend she developed a hideous cough (my guesses are she has covid). She’s waking 2,3,4 times in the night, the temp seems to have gone (with help of calpol). Me and OH are exhausted, we really don’t know what else to do - her cough sounds awful (it’s not croup) but she sounds as if she is choking when she does and gags often.
We’ve started giving cough syrup and have used saline solution to help her breathe too and Vicks baby vapour rub and the diffuser at night time. Nothing really seems to be helping. She’s exhausted, irritable and constantly crying throughout the day. She’s barely been napping either (only 40 minutes when she usually sleeps 1hr 15/30 mins) when she is well.
Not sure what I’m asking here but I’m utterly exhausted and I feel touched out and the constant screaming and crying since Friday is really getting me down as nothing I do seems to be helping her 😞