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Just got back from the doc.   We’ve confirmed that it’s German Measles that’s affecting my 7-year-old.   I finally completed the prescribed meds after asking the pedia to change the hard-to-find Hydroxyzine to anything equally effective against itching.  She came up with Diphenhydramine.

However, I worry about my daughter’s swollen eyelids.  It makes her face look a little puffy this morning.   Unfortunately, I didn’t get much answer from her pedia about it earlier (she seemed confused too) so I decided to search the internet for some useful information about German Measles.   I’m glad to have found a site that offers valuable information for parents about kids’ diseases and German Measles is of course there.

It somehow gave me a breath of fresh air to learn that German Measles is a mild illness in kids and that it “resolves on its own.”   I also found out that the puffiness around her eyes is one of the symptoms of German Measles (the doctor earlier feared possible complications that may have caused my daughter’s puffy eyes and it gave me the creeps when she mentioned kidneys!).  But the doctor said she’s not raising the alarm since my daughter’s fever has subsided, her blood pressure is normal so it could mean her suspicion is incorrect.

My research helped me understand that my daughter’s swollen eyelids and pink eyes could be mild conjuctivitis which could have been affected by some allergies or infections (like bacteria or viruses) which are also brought about by German Measles.   I also learned that the rashes typically last three days but the swollen lymph nodes may take about a week to cure.

Doctor’s advice is to continue monitoring my child’s temperature and give her the prescribed medication on schedule.   I am less tense now that I know more about German Measles.   I was getting quite paranoid when I was totally in the dark about this illness.

I’d like to give credit to the people behind the website kidshealth.org.  They have loads of useful information about children’s health that every parent must know.  I decided to keep them handy by including them in my Hall of Fame links.

My daughter woke up this morning with a slight fever.   She wouldn’t even eat because her throat was hurting.   A few minutes later, she was scratching all over and rashes appeared on her skin.

It’s times like these when I wish I could transfer her discomfort to myself.      But the most I could do was rush her to the doctor.

It’s not yet confirmed if she got german measles or a scarlet fever.   We need to meet with the doctor again tomorrow for confirmation.   In the meantime, she needs to take an antibiotic, a paracetamol, and something else to relieve the itching (which is out-of-stock in all four pharmacies I went to).

Her inflamed tonsils, rashes, slight fever, and itching are more than enough to make me go nuts.  I wish the day is over so we could go see the doctor again in the morning.

If it’s any consolation, she feels better now that her fever has subsided.   In fact, she wanted to go malling so we could buy one more valentine’s gift for her dad  (She wanted to buy him flowers on top of the gift we already bought yesterday.).   She’s such a sweetheart.

I need to get going.   I still need to scour the pharmacies for this one last prescribed medicine which I can’t even read.

I pray it wouldn’t get worse tomorrow.

I’m not in panic mode…yet.