2hot: My little girl's fever lasted for about 2 days. maybe you can give the pd a call and speak to him about your concern over the prolonged fever? Something's not quite right if the fever has been going on for a week! I speak to my pd over the phone whenever there're any concerns.
My little girl is 22 months now and I started giving her cordyceps and ginseng after her 1st birthday. But of cos at that age I gave only 2 tablespoon of the soup. Now she takes half a small bowl though she always asks for more.
This is how I make the cordycep/ginseng soup -
Ingredients:
1. Abt 5-6 pieces (average ones, not the fat fat ones) of cordyceps or 1-1.5 stalks of ginseng
2. 1 piece 4cm lean pork
3. 10 seeds of wolfberries
4. 1-2 red dates (seedless)
If using ginseng I also add:
5. 2 rolls of shihu (to neutralise the heatiness)
Instructions:
1. Blanch the lean pork
2. Rinse all herbs
3. Place all ingredients into a double boiler and fill with hot water (abt 1 small rice bowl or less)
4. Place pot into slow cooker filled with hot water that rises to half of pot's height, leave to double boil for 6 hours.
5. Serve only soup and wolfberries with dash of soya sauce or without any seasoning.
The amount I've given above actually makes enough soup for both my girls as they should only be drinking a small amt, e.g., half a small bowl.
Reutefene: this is expensive though I can't recall the price right now. I've never tried other probiotics as my pd is the one who recommended it based on taste and effectiveness. As for phlegm from Vitagen so far that does not seem to have happened with my girls leh, and such drink are really good for children's digestive system leh.
Mycoplasma: My older girl (turning 4 yrs on Monday) has hypersensitive airways and she used to come down with a cough every month. eventually with the Omega3-6-9 Complete and all the herbs it became once every 2-3 months. So though the pd had always suggested that I put her on the puff I've been resistant and my pd respects my decision. So together my pd and I have been trying to put her on as little medication as possible. But this time it is really bad and I've never seen her cough so badly before. The treatment was either oral steroids or inhaled steroids and I felt inhaled steroids is way better due to the much much lower dose compared to if it were given orally. Steroids have a multitude of side effects and I dun want her to be exposed to steroids if I can help it. Knowing my concerns, my pd decided to put my girl on what is known as 'rescue therapy' in which my girl uses the puff only when she has a bout of cough. Once she recovers I will take her off the puff. However you need to note that my girl is on Ventolin puff (not steroid) as well as Flixotide puff (this is the steroid). I can just take her off teh Ventolin the moment she is well but because Flixotide is a steroid I have to taper the dose when I withdraw it from her. Sudden withdrawal of long steroid therapies can be very dangerous.
Klacid: This is an antibiotic that's prescribed for mild to moderately severe infections of the respiratory system which includes chronic bronchitis and community acquired pneumonia. When one is on the right type and dose of antibiotics there should not be any flares of fever. A fever signifies an infection and so when one develops a fever while on antibiotics you should speak to a doctor and get the person assessed again to see if the antibiotics need to be changed. My little girl's antibiotics has been changed to Augmentin as it's possible that she caught a secondary infection from some other children.
My little girl is terrible with taking medication and I have to disguise it in milk. For strong and bad tasting medication like Klacid I give each dose separated into 2 small milk feeds. Other types of med like oral ventolin and rhinaramine I will just mix all into milk and she will drink cos she can't tell the difference. When she was slightly younger (a few months ago) or even now when I really do need to force feed her med, I will mobilise maid and hb to hold her and I will syringe into her mouth 1.5ml at a time. Anymore than that and she is sure to gag, cry and vomit everything out. I'm basically quiet a cruel mommy, if the medicine has to go down it HAS TO GO DOWN. Even if it's gonna take me 1 hour to get all the med into her body, I will.
No need to be heartpain, it is for her own good! At this age they are unreasonable, and frankly BEYOND reason anyway, so just do what you've gotta do.
Oh, and if you dun see ANY improvement or very little improvement 3-4 days after the antibiiotics, it is definitely time to visit the pd again.