Still wondering
Rotavirus and new food allergy? I am hoping this was some virus and just the banana. The last of the lower GI tests came in negative, but they were all for bacteria (salmonella, e.coli, and so forth), and inflammatory bowl syndrome. I suppose since they tested for bacteria, then they haven't ruled anything out from lack of fever. What I remember from medic school was, generally, acute bacterial infections had high fever and accute viral infection had low fever. I talked to the nurse today about rotavirus. She said it can be active upto 30 days. Much longer than I expected. I guess two weeks is just an average. I also looked it up quickly and read, 'children under 5'. I also saw some clinical study results stating that of the test group, 77% of kids who tested positive had fever. So DS could be one of the 23%. Now I have no idea why he wasn't tested for it. He had another episode last night. But tonight he was wanting to play, and went outside with daddy for a while. The remaining three allergy results still aren't in. There appears to have been a glitch somewhere at the lab (across the country). Hopefully we'll hear something Monday. Odd to have given us only one result of four, when they all came from the same blood test. I am betting we'll be told it needs to be redrawn. My son is frantic that he not have to give blood again, and I'm pretty irritated. I asked them to do one draw for any tests they wanted. We've had three now. if they do ask to have it redone, I'm going to tell them that we'll have it done at Dr B's office, the allergist we are seeing next week. If the scratch and the I Cap are considered equal, then I want to do an ICap because I think a scratch is just too hard on him. And I really don't want her to do a scratch test on milk proteins. I don't want to have to take him to the hospital. When the nurse said she was going to have to track down our blood tests results I almost laughed. I know I haven't learned patience yet. For me not knowing is worse than the worst case scenario. So it figures. God is giving me another few days to learn to trust in Him, I guess. If my husband tell me one more time to 'think positively' I'll kick him, I swear. So the plan now is, see the allergist (Dr B) and have the Pedi do a Celiac's panel, simultaneously, if no positives on the last three.