Croup

My little guy got his first fever ever on Friday and we ended up in the er last night.

On Friday he was not acting like himself and then around 4 pm I noticed he has a fever - so I gave him some Tylenol and put him down for a nap - when he woke up his left eye was puffy and pink - so I called the on call pedi and they said just to keep an eye on it and call back if it gets worse.  His fever went down and his eye went down so I put him to bed for the night.

On Saturday morning he woke up with the fever - running nose and bad cough.  I gave him Tylenol again and again called the pedi - they said they will not see him until he has a fever for 4 days - so on Monday.  They said they wanted to wait and see if it just works itself out.  I was pissed but I got it - there was really nothing they could do.

As the day went on his fever never went down - and his cough got worse.  By 9 pm I took his temp and it was 103 and so I decided to call the on-call pedi and they said to take him to the er.  So we did - and he ended up having croup - they gave him steriods to help him.  They said it is going to get worse before it gets better.  We were sent home.

He was up most of the night last night.  I feel so bad for my little guy.