Little Rachel Recovering. It's Mummy's Turn Now - lol

Little Rachel's fever finally stopped recurring since yesterday ... after 6 days 6 nights of me freaking out. Her rashes broke out on Sunday..spreaded on Monday.. and on the way to recovery now. She is still having rashes all over but it is less red and swollen now. The better outcome from this ordeal is that her double eyelid emerged again - she's cute with it.

Some people advised me to give her young coconut water to reduce her body heat in view of the viral infection or 'kar mar' in cantonese. I asked my confinement lady - they know alot about such things and chinese remedies :) - she said coconut water is not suitable for my little girl since she is under 1 year old. Cause 'wind' she said. The better is to look for a Chinese medicine called 'ling yung' and 'sai ngau' and double boil with a bit of rock sugar for 2-3 hours. It will help reduce body heat and detox. At the chinese medicine shop, I got the 'ling yung' (look like shredded white flakes') plus some other stuff prepacked. Unfortunately, 'sai ngau' has been banned by government. When asked about the young coconut water again, same advice. Don't give my little girl. Combined with the chinese medicine, it will be too 'cool' ('leong' in cantonese) for her which will lead to cough. Boiling the medicine now. Gonna feed her tonight and see if it works.

As for me... I have been having dry cough and mild flu for over a month. This was the remnants of the last cough and flu that I had almost 2 months ago. I have been going to quite a few GPs to try and get rid of it. Didn't work. I had it really bad this morning. Eyes tearing, nose running, heavy head and coughing like mad. I was finally referred to an ENT specialist. Went today. Diagnosed 'chronic allergy la-di-la-di-la' - sorry forgot the other half of what he said :). It's related to bronchitis. What actually happened was my earlier virus aggravated my sinus allergy and it has worsen since then. The mucus has flowed backwards into my throat and lungs causing my frequent and worsening dry cough. My nose - the insides - were so swollen, blocking air passage. That's why all cough syrup and antibiotic didn't work for me. It wasn't virus infection. Which is kinda good thing - coz I want to rule out H1N1. I had to go on 2 weeks medication and follow up with him again. Worse case - if this doesn't - I have to do a scan to check my sinuses. I hope not!

I told my friend who had a similar problem - prolonged dry cough and such - and advised him to seek specialist advice. Any sickness prolonged (though mild) is not good. Normal GPs may not know how to treat or even have the right medicine to give -my GP told me :(

There ... the story of the week for me - countless visits to docs :) ;p