Thursday, December 29, 2011

Brooke's ear infection

Half way through our stay at my parent's house, Brooke complained of her ear hurting her -- she did it several times during the day, to several different adults, at different times. The next morning, she woke up with a low grade fever (100). I watched her closely to ensure the fever didn't go up too high -- it only got as high as 101 -- to make sure it wasn't another PFAPA fever episode. Since it didn't get into the 102 - 104 range, I was confident it was an ear infection. Esp. when an hour after she woke up, she crawled onto the couch and fell asleep again -- for almost 2 hours -- with all the household noise around her (she is typically a light sleeper). Even with antibiotics, she has a low grade fever for about 3 days and then it cleared up.

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