A peaceful week or so passed by after Sophie's traumatic diarrhea episode... Meanwhile, we quit Pat's Schoolhouse, partly due to HMF outbreak and her susceptiblility to infection.I wanted to start weaning her since she was approaching 5 months old. Suddenly, we heard her cough for the first time. Could we have heard wrongly? Maybe she choked on her own saliva? We could not be further from the truth. She had developed a real cough. As it turned out, it was again, a viral infection. Dr Koh gave her some syrup for her phlegm and whizzing. Nothing unusual...except she did not recover.
Her cough soon escalated to nasal congestion, breathlessness and eventually whizzing. We had to rent the nebulizer home and administer ventolin, atrovent and steroid every four to six hourly. My poor Sophie could not drink her milk, sleep or do much. Dr Koh warned us that it might be her first asthmatic attack and we must monitor her closely for lung infection. Her condition only improved after almost 3 weeks. We ended up buying the machine (nebulizer).
Phew! What a relief? Sophie bounced back to health, happily gulping down her milk and putting on weight for the next few days. Then our heart sank again when she started to cough. Her cough was even worse than before. We repeated the procedure of nebulizing her but to no avail. We tried physiotherapy and manually sucking her mucus out, but she did not respond well enough. We almost sent her to have her phlegm pumped out at Mt Alvenia. Finally, we begged Dr Vella for antibiotics.
A few days later, Sophie was slowly recovering... in a wink of an eye, almost month had passed and she had not started her solids.
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