Rotavirus

My 3-year-old son,  Elijah  was struck  by an illness with symptoms like vomiting and loose watery stools. As a mom, I always get terrified and bothered every time my son would get ill. Everytime he gets sick, it is very traumatic to me I guess.

On day 1, his symptoms were only vomiting (I mean projectile vomiting) and low-grade fever up to 37.7.  But on day 2, he stopped vomiting but instead started having loose watery stools (yellow in color and foul smelling).  By the way, he was struck by this illness at 1 year of age. So this was his 2nd time that's why I have a bit of suspicion that what struck him again was rotavirus..Going back, he started losing appetite and did have poor fluid intake then.So I brought him to the ER since his pedia was on his holiday vacation at that time 'coz it's November 1, but fortunately we were discharged home from the ER by the pedia resident. What the doctor told me was to only rehydrate my son with Hydrite and give him only soft diet.They told me that it was not rotavirus, but still I have the feeling that it was. I had his stool and urine checked but they were all clear for infection.

Good thing now day 5 since Elijah got ill, I must say he's back on track. He is frisky now.  His appetite is back though we don't give him hard to digest foods still

My other culprit for him becoming ill again with that virus was when I changed his milk formula from Promil Kid to Grow.  I must say my son's really  "hiyang"  with Wyeth milk products and later I will switch him back to Promil Kid again..Goodbye all other milk brands, we'll just stick to "Promil" for my son's sake.

These were my son's meds....

The yellow pill cost 20 Php and I call it "magic pill" 'coz this saved my son's life for the 2nd time, and I owe that to what we call our "herbalist"



WHAT IS ROTAVIRUS?
Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhoea among infants and young children,^[1] and is one of several viruses that cause infections often called stomach flu, despite having no relation to influenza. It is a genus of double-stranded RNA virus in the family Reoviridae. By the age of five, nearly every child in the world has been infected with rotavirus at least once.^[2] However, with each infection, immunity develops, and subsequent infections are less severe;^[3] adults are rarely affected.^[4] There are five species of this virus, referred to as A, B, C, D, and E.^[5] Rotavirus A, the most common, causes more than 90% of infections in humans. (From wikipedia)