Vaccination Debate

Well, ds (9) came home from school yesterday, glassy eyed, flush and seemed hot. His temp was 98...then an hour later it was 102.5

Took him to the doctor today (after I called them to see if I should or just do the fluids thing at home). They said come on in and low and behold after he was swabbed type A influenza most probably H1N1. The kicker is, the child is bouncing off the walls as usual, lol. He is running a slight fever today and has a decreased appetite but other wise it's hardly noticeable he's sick. Keeping up the fluids and waiting it out.

Oh well, now to watch the other two (and myself).

Dee

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You might find this study on flu shots and asthmatics (children) interesting:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519172045.htm

I was battling with this all last week (thus my obfuscation) back and forth between my two youngsters. Fine one day... then spikey fever the next. We don't have a thermoter at the house, so I couldn't tell you how high they got, but when I had to pick them up at daycare it was 102.9.

Between us and the inlaws, we've been taking care of them. My hypothesis is H1N1, but, I have not taken them in. Battled with two days myself of the icks and feeling like crap - but as I'm sure most of us can contest, as mothers, we just don't get the down time to be sick, so I can't tell you if I had it or not.

They weren't eating, and did not care to drink either, but we forced fluids down them. So far, the major battle was getting them to drink fluids.