Hey,
Just looking for some advice, or reassurance on where to go from here.
Last week Monday ( so now we are on day 10) my 4 year old come home from pre school unwell High Temp and then vomited twice which then stopped when temp come down, she had a little cough and was refusing to eat. I just assumed that it was a virus.
By Friday last week, the cough sounded horrendous, she has a history of pneumonia, which she was hospitalised with in 2021, as she had parainfluenza too which made her so poorly. With this in mind we went to the GP who said he could hear small crackles which might clear on its own but prescribed amoxicillin for over the weekend if she got worse.
She did. So Saturday we started the amoxicillin. Since then, this cough has just got worse. So I'm like is it more a virus, with the antibiotics not touching it.
Last two nights she's been really wheezy, and she walked upstairs last night and tried to talk to me and was so out of breath she couldn't really speak.
However other than this, there's no normal signs of her struggling to breath, she's playing, no temp but still not eating. Drinking enough but not as much as normal, and a bit more tearful.
My question is... would you be getting her reevaluated? I know the service is so stretched right now with babies and tots with RSV struggling a lot more than us, and don't want to be one of those mums with her otherwise looking ok. But I have this mum gut feeling something is off!! ( if you know you know)
Maybe looking for reassurance I'm not being dramatic and if anyone else has had similar... or even better a medical professional lol
TIA xx