Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / November 2005

Hi everyone,

Little John has had a rough week. Hes had a fever the last few days of
no more that 102.5. He had all the classic cold symptoms as well as a
rash on both cheeks. We treated him with the typical otc infant stuff
to keep the fever in check and now his fever is gone. Heres the thing
though, he is having trouble with foods and keeping it down. This
started mildly a few days ago, 5 days maybe but didnt seem that bad.
Today he has thrown up 3 times including a major projectile vomit. He
seems ok, he mood is good and he seems really hungry but he cant hold
anything down. We tried allimentum mixed with cereal which he gets
everyday and he immediatly starting hurling, not alot but you can tell
he just had a tough time with it. Hes drinking pedialite though, that
stays down fine.

We though he might have fifths disease because of the cheeks, they
looked slapped. he has no diahrrea or anything else like that. He looks
to have alot of mucus in his vomit, its gooey and nasty. He just got
over twin ear infections just 2 weeks ago, we arent sure what to make
of this becase the fever is gone.

Any ideas?