Morning everyone. Will try and make this short, 5 year old brought home something absolutely vile last Wednesday which we’ve all since caught. I suspect it’s Covid but the tests are negative. Symptoms: Fever, cough, exhaustion, loss of appetite, congested nose, headache, really bad body aches (like really bad I was actually in tears) and sore throat etc. oh and everybody has been sick at least once or twice.
18 month old came down with it Friday but didn’t seem quite as poorly as the rest of us. Just took longer naps and had disturbed sleep at night, he did also have a temperature of 38.7. He has still been eating tiny bits of crisps, chocolate just anything to get him interested. Yesterday he just wanted to sleep ALLLL day and every 15-30 mins would wake, cry, have a drink and go back to sleep.
Made an appointment with the GP who checked him over everywhere and confirmed he’s now got tonsillitis as a secondary infection from whatever the first thing was so is on antibiotics. He’s had two doses so far and has slept from 5pm yesterday and is still asleep now (almost 7am the following morning) he has been disturbed to have meds, a drink and he oddly did a poo around midnight which I was happy about as it had been about 4 days. His temperature is also back to normal now too as yesterday it spiked to 38.7 again.
I just want to know is this normal? I’m trying to remind myself of how I also feel and I have spent a lot of my time alongside him in bed asleep and so has my 5 year old who still also isn’t right.