Frustration
3 posts reporting sicknesses in a row, what kind of a lousy mom am I?
Soon after he survived Prevenar, a red area started to develop at a corner of his mouth. I left him on the 19th, it was a small red area , and 5 days later, it became a pretty bad ulcer. More than that, his gum looked very red, his breath smelled, and the coating of his tongue (the white stuff on one’s tongue) was unusually thick and yellowish. I don’t know how western medical theory would interpret these symptoms. But in the traditional Chinese medical theories, all these symptoms suggested that the “balance” in his body was disturbed, and the element “fire” was taking over. So I took the traditional measure—took off his extra clothes, made chrysanthemum tea, increase his water in-take, added more vegetable and fruit to his plate.
I really wish I have enough wisdom and courage to circumvent and deal with all these sicknesses. Lele is a wonderfully happy baby who almost never cries, so when he does cry, my heart gets ripped off.
Livia wrote:
I saw you managed to get to my blog!
This is not necessarily correct, but the symptoms sound like a typical Herpes infection. Considering the the vaccine temporarily weakened his immune system, that also makes it likely…Did his mouth hurt before the ulcer came out? Herpes infections typically hurt a lot before the lesion becomes visible.
If it didn’t hurt, the other most likely illness (I don’t know the English name of it) requires a local antiseptic “Gentian violet”, which is antifungal. -> I got this from my pediatrician friend.
Posted 28 Feb 2010 at 3:14 pm ¶
scorp wrote:
Hey, yea, unfortunately only the PC at my in-laws’ has all necessary programs to visit your blog, so I can only do it on weekends.
And I doubt it hurt, he didn’t seem to be bothered before the ulcer came out. This is also why it is hard to diagnose sicknesses for little babies, they can’t really tell you what is wrong, you can only make guesses……. Luckily he’s all better now!
Posted 08 Mar 2010 at 12:40 am ¶