{"id":3591,"date":"2014-03-20T07:43:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T11:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2014-03-22T21:31:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T01:31:39","slug":"sick-with-sixth-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/20\/sick-with-sixth-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick with Sixth Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I was faced with what was perhaps my roughest few days of baby mommying ever.\u00a0 Doodle had cut his first tooth and was working on his second.\u00a0 Honeybun had brought home a little cold from school which Doodle of course caught.\u00a0 And then the fever hit.\u00a0 He felt warm one morning and by nap time he was at 102.5\u00b0.<\/p>\n

For the first time in I don\u2019t remember how long I pulled out the baby Tylenol (the plastic wrap was still on the bottle I got before Doodle was even born!) I don\u2019t usually use pain relievers except to reduce fevers and only in cases of really high fever like this.\u00a0 I then realized I had no idea what his does would be.\u00a0 So, a call into the doctor and wait for the call back from the nurse. \u00a0I informed her of the sudden high fever and that he had a small cold.\u00a0 She told me his dose and said it was probably viral so as long as we could manage the fever with Tylenol there was no need to bring him in, though if his fever went higher, like 105\u00b0, we should head to he ER (umm, duh?)<\/p>\n

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So my usually busy, happy, energetic, on the move, getting into things little guy spent the next day and a half nursing, snuggling and resting including a marathon cuddle in my bed one morning from 4 am to 8 when I was so hungry I had to get up!\u00a0 The Tylenol did its job and took the fever down for 4-6 hours before we would redose and the fever broke about 36 hours later and I didn\u2019t think much of it.<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>\u00a0That is until the rash appeared about 2 days after the fever broke and I knew: Roseola.\u00a0 Roseola (sometimes called sixth disease) is not a big deal, it\u2019s just a viral reaction to a herpes strain we all have in our bodies.\u00a0 Most kids only get it once and it usually occurs before they are 2 and it is usually unheard of after age 4.\u00a0 As Doodle\u2019s went, it starts with a high, unexplained fever followed a few days later by a rash of small pink\/red bumps mostly on the trunk.\u00a0 The child is contagious during the fever stage but not by the time the rash appears and you know it\u2019s roseola.<\/p>\n

My first Roseola experience was with Honeybun.\u00a0 She actually got it after she was 2, when she and I had returned to Florida to await the arrival of Sugarplum.\u00a0 The fever didn\u2019t concern me but when she got the rash just days before my due date, I panicked.\u00a0 I called the doctor, concerned I was at risk or that if they baby were to be born during the rash phase she might get it too and a fever that high in a newborn is always dangerous.\u00a0 He eased my concerns, told me I was not at risk since I\u2019d probably had it as a child myself and that even if the baby arrived that minute, Honeybun was past the contagious part so there was no risk there.<\/p>\n

This time around, I was concerned about Sugarplum again because she\u2019s never had it and is still within the 4 year old range.\u00a0 Luckily she did not get it (though I think one of Doodle\u2019s girlfriends got it).\u00a0 Luckily, the whole ordeal only lasts a few days and aside from a fussy and overly needy baby, it comes and goes without much trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I was faced with what was perhaps my roughest few days of baby mommying ever.\u00a0 Doodle had cut his first tooth and was working on his second.\u00a0 Honeybun had brought home a little cold from school which Doodle of course caught.\u00a0 And then the fever hit.\u00a0 He felt warm one morning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[39,122,123,120,119,121],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baby-business","category-family-life","tag-baby","tag-fever","tag-rash","tag-roseola","tag-sick","tag-sixth-disease"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}