My little man has been unwell with a bad cough for almost a week. We took him to Dr two days ago and of course he was fine in Dr's office but then really bad as he had been a little while later. We took him back to Dr today, we had to see a different one but he is also trained in Paedeatrics, he said our little man now has crackle in his right lung so he is on antibiotics now.
I know seziures can increase when ill as we have seen this many a times but what we are finding strange this time around is the strange behaviours he has been having more often lately are now becomming way more pronounced as well. He is generally not to bad until around noon then after that he suddenly looks shocking lots of coughing, very agitated, suddenly tired, etc but then will bounce back to an almost normal toddler for 5 to 10 min then back to the NQR state for long periods. He has his nap then wakes into the same NQR behaviour with these strange short "normal toddler periods". With our other kids if they are sick they are sick they only pick up if you give them panadol and often stay OK again until it starts to wear off. I have never seen huge sudden continuious mood/behavious swings like this.
It will be interesting to see how he is now with the antibiotics as if he goes along his usual pattern when he has them his issues will all but dissapear after around 3 or 4 days on the antibiotics then he will often stay with longer "good periods" for around 1 or 2 weeks after stopping them. I have mentioned this to his paed, GP and Nureo but so far no one seems to have really taken any notice of this or if they have can see no reason why it would occur. I am sure it is linked in with his issues and his brain lesion. It is going to be interesting to see if this happens again this time.
Has any one else seen huge/sudden mood swings like this in their child and if you have have these mood swings become more pronounced when they are unwell.
Although I often feel like I am on a never ending search for answers to my sons condition I do feel we are slowly moving in the right direction to finding an answer although I think we are still a way off.
He is also eating very little at the moment, not even a meal a day, so Dr has asked us to give him lolly pops to keep his energy up, he's not really interested in them either but thankfully we have been able to get him to have milk. They are not sure if it is him having trouble coordinating eating, as this sometimes happens and he can only have mash or if it is he is to unwell to eat. My husband and i are starting to wonder if we might end up back at the ED with him in the next day or so if he doesn't start eating more and if he doesn't respond to the antibiotics. Fingers crossed he has a bit better night tonight and we start to see an improvement in the next 48hrs.
Sorry for the long post. Thanks for reading. It helps me so much writing it all down.
Donna
I know seziures can increase when ill as we have seen this many a times but what we are finding strange this time around is the strange behaviours he has been having more often lately are now becomming way more pronounced as well. He is generally not to bad until around noon then after that he suddenly looks shocking lots of coughing, very agitated, suddenly tired, etc but then will bounce back to an almost normal toddler for 5 to 10 min then back to the NQR state for long periods. He has his nap then wakes into the same NQR behaviour with these strange short "normal toddler periods". With our other kids if they are sick they are sick they only pick up if you give them panadol and often stay OK again until it starts to wear off. I have never seen huge sudden continuious mood/behavious swings like this.
It will be interesting to see how he is now with the antibiotics as if he goes along his usual pattern when he has them his issues will all but dissapear after around 3 or 4 days on the antibiotics then he will often stay with longer "good periods" for around 1 or 2 weeks after stopping them. I have mentioned this to his paed, GP and Nureo but so far no one seems to have really taken any notice of this or if they have can see no reason why it would occur. I am sure it is linked in with his issues and his brain lesion. It is going to be interesting to see if this happens again this time.
Has any one else seen huge/sudden mood swings like this in their child and if you have have these mood swings become more pronounced when they are unwell.
Although I often feel like I am on a never ending search for answers to my sons condition I do feel we are slowly moving in the right direction to finding an answer although I think we are still a way off.
He is also eating very little at the moment, not even a meal a day, so Dr has asked us to give him lolly pops to keep his energy up, he's not really interested in them either but thankfully we have been able to get him to have milk. They are not sure if it is him having trouble coordinating eating, as this sometimes happens and he can only have mash or if it is he is to unwell to eat. My husband and i are starting to wonder if we might end up back at the ED with him in the next day or so if he doesn't start eating more and if he doesn't respond to the antibiotics. Fingers crossed he has a bit better night tonight and we start to see an improvement in the next 48hrs.
Sorry for the long post. Thanks for reading. It helps me so much writing it all down.
Donna
