Liam has been sick this past week, but when he started pulling on his ear, we decided it was time to take him to the doctors. Turns out he has a ear infection in one ear, the other is completely filled with fluid and has started to get infected, and he has pneumonia. Dr. Lockhart said that if we did bring him in last week she prob would have sent us home thinking it was a cold, since its been going around and he didn't have any symptoms other than a runny nose. If he did have an ear infection then, she said it prob won't have been far enough long yet to even give Liam meds. By waiting a couple of days it is a lot easier to diagnose him correctly and it saved us an extra trip to the doctors. The antibiotics will work for his ear and the pneumonia if its bacterial, if its viral he will have a cough for the next 3 weeks and there isn't much we can do. However, if his cough is worse by Friday, I need to call so we can put him on breathing treatments.
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Poor Liam. I hope he feels better soon. He is the 3rd baby this week I have heard that has gotten the ear infection/pneumonia combo. Keep me posted on how he is doing!
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