Alyssa's diarrhoea - Part 2

It has been a crazy day. First, I set my alarm clock last night but it didn't sound this morning because the phone was flat. I thought Desmond would have charged the phone last night after informing me that it is almost flat. Goodness. Then, after rushing to get out of the house at the earliest possible time, I realised that Desmond didn't take out the keys from my bag and I have no keys to open the car door since he would have put Baby's bag and mine in the car before he sets off for work. Crazy. Then I had to wait for him to come home to rescue the damsels in distress while trying not to doze off playing with Baby. I must say she's a really adorable girl with a great smile but I was just too tired to appreciate it fully. When I got to the office, I had to rush and finish whatever I was supposed to have done last night or early this morning but didn't because I was dead tired after dinner last night, and Baby wasn't helpful at all as she had to wake up at 10:30pm and climb around till 12+ in the middle of the night. Thank God I managed to finish whatever I was supposed to do and now, I have an additional thing to present to the Big Boss tomorrow.

Alright, enough of me, and back to the story of Alyssa's diarrhoea. So, Bindu called up her doc friend and he asked if she had mucous stool. Now, how does one identify mucous stool??? Stools are mucous if it appeared jelly-like or have jelly-like substances in it. Mucous stools could indicate bacteria infection, which can be intercepted by antibiotics. Therefore I decided to pay Bindu's doc friend a visit and see if he could indeed help with her diarrhoea. Although Baby didn't pass any motion when we got to the clinic and waited for nearly 2 hours to see the doc, he prescribed the antibiotics (Cedax) to me first anyway and told me to send the stool for testing if she passed any. While we wanted to wait for her to pass motion before going back, Desmond couldn't wait any longer to get home because he was ill as well (yes, my poor husband also started to get sick on monday and didn't go to work, but accompanied us to the doc after he visited another doctor). Just as we were almost home, Baby pooped and I decided that sending her stools for testing then was the best thing to do. Poor Desmond had to drive us all the way back to the clinic despite being so sick.

In the meantime, Baby's diarrhoea worsen that day and the day after, passing motion more than 10 times per day on both days. Her poor little bum got so red she couldn't even bear with me washing her bum and would scream and yell whenever we change diapers. My poor thing. By then, we would have stopped all solid food for her and was only giving her formula milk. We thought that would be the best thing to do, to rest her stomach since there was a war going on in her digestive system. Also, both doctors never said to stop giving her milk, in fact the first one said she could continue the milk and both doctors agreed that it was a good thing she was still drinking milk despite her condition and we left it as it.

Tests results came out 2 days later on Wednesday and indeed, she had an E. Coli infection. Bindu's doc friend said the antibiotics should help with her diarrhoea and she should get better after 3-4 days. Indeed, she got better after the 2 horrendous days of pooping more than 10 times, however, it wasn't much better. After 3-4 days, that is, almost a week of taking the antibiotics, she was still passing motion about 5-6 times a day. Again, Bindu's doc friend said it's ok as long as she's still drinking milk, and she should get well in about another day or two. I didn't have much problems with that and thought it's not so bad, since she did appear to be getting better, even though my parents-in-law asked again if they could give other medicine (or medicines) to stop her diarrhoea (no, sorry, let me repeat for the umpteenth time, there is NOT MUCH medicines to be given to a baby with a diarrhoea and she was already taking all the medicines she could be taking. Thank you very much. And no, I was not angry, I was just slightly frustrated.) Also, I thought, maybe after being absent from the infant care for about a week, the caregivers would be ok with her going back to infant care even though she still passed motion quite a number of times a day.

Who knows, I ran into trouble again at the infant care the following Monday...