Mom and Baby having fever and feeling sick Dad not arround what to do

Hi Thanks a lot!

I meassured with clinical thermomether (i got a baby one for her) its a german brand one and said its 38,2 and the display is red discription says if its red its fever. its increasing from 37,3 to 37,8 to 38,2 in several hours (display stores last temperature for comparison).
I gave her a medicine named ben-u-ron, the doctor gave when she got vaccination.
beginning of this month she was 8.5 kg she is a tall girl (and chubby).
She drank milk pritty normal which is huge reliefe to me.
She is very fussy and cries and moans a lot her head feels hot and her cheeks changed color like she is toothing but she isnt.
She ate bit pumpkin mash but she cried in between (she is a foody and loves all sort of food so that fussyness is not normal for her).
No cough
Nose is alright she breathes freely nothing runny.

Lady in practice told there is infections going arround and i might gave to her as i seem to have same.

 

Hi Pinky2Cute,

thanks a lot for your advices. Me to never heard before about mother passing on deaseses to baby over milk but it alertet and shocked me as its never been my intention to harm my baby, i just thought of doing best by giving her breastmilk.

I used dettol hand sanitiser to clean hands hope thats enough as she still got it. Whats confusing me is that we developed fever both exactly same time and over less hours without any other symptom like sneesing.

I breastfed her just again, she seemed calm. She sleeps now as she was very much tired. Im glad she drank enough at least i feel it was pritty much normal. Should i wake her in the night to check her temperature? She will need milk in middle of the night shall i meassure then again? Or will it risk to make her fussy again as i have to undress and wake her up fully to do so?

Relative told me i have to stop breastfeeding if my own temperature increases to high. If it is so why? Is it really true? I actually still beliefe its best to continue bf but im insecure now.

Ben-u-ron has 75 mg of paracetamol the package says i can give her every 6 hours 1.

All im having for adults is panadol (arabic medicine) as i dont understand arab well enough and i dont get french at all i have no clue wether its ok to take during bf all i understand is it contains 500 mg paracetamol and 65 mg coffeine which i think is too much for bf... shell i take that or just try without and wait till tomorrow?

 

Hi Pinky2Cute, thanks again for your great help and advice i feel really lucky you helped me out so much, may god bless you for your good heart

Her fever reduced a lot (i always check rectal as its most precice isnt it?), she drank the whole night so frequently (every alternate hour or 30 mins) and was quite fussy but i felt by kissing her forehead (didnt wake her totally and was quite mashy myself) that it slowly starts to be better. I guess the paracetamol was enough in combination with the milk but you are right i too think its less content. Package says highest dose is for babies over 3 month upto 6 kg´s and mine was already far above that when the doc gave the medicine to us, no clue why he did so.

She plays with her toys today normally even she is moody.

She was coughing a bit in the morning but im not sure if she had something in her throat or its real cough as she stopped doing it.

She can still drink and keeps on being at breast for longer time to comfort herself and have a sip every now and then, i let her to make her relax and get enough liquid plus it assures me her nose isnt blocked as she breathes normally wile sucking.

I didnt take the medicine as i already had a coffe in the morning and was concernd it might be too much coffeine. My fever increased during night with heavy body pain but dropped a bit in early morning out of no reason. I too just kept on drinking like my baby did. So i guess it was just some viral infection and i hope we are over the edge now..

thanks a lot again i hope fever will keeping on decreasing and no more symptoms will come, i keep an eye on her couging in case she does it again.

Thanks a lot again

 

Thanks Sister Saisakthi, You where totally right, i kept on breastfeeding her during the night and it seems she needed it a lot and it helped her to recover although im not sure if it was more the fact she needed liquid and physical closeness or if the breast milk itself made the difference but it doesnt matter as long it helps. I had some soup so you where right with that too, even we dont feel like eating we should at least try and thanks for keeping us in your prayers I beliefe that too helped us

 

Hi @VanithaSudhir, thank you too for dropping by to help me out, no i couldnt ask someone. I thought of whiping her off with a cold wet towel but got scared to make it worse but i guess you are right i should have done it. I used the paracetamol as i dont have crocin here. What do you mean with fits? Im sorry i didnt get it. Else is your suggestion totally right and others who read this should have less concern to whipe baby with tepid water or let the water dry on baby i think it helps.