I feel like an horrible mother..
Long but please read!!
Let me start off by saying my daughter had the flu last month and has leftover medicine from that which is the tylenol, ibuprofen and tamiflu. 2 days ago I noticed she woke up with a cough I started giving her medicine that day for cough and that was it but yesterday it started getting a little worse running nose, coughing and crying more than usual. I've been giving her tylenol and so far she HASN'T had no fever whatsoever just those symptoms that I've explained. Looks like she's already getting better today, but she still does have that cough I'm aware that's always the last to leave. reason I don't want to take her to the er or doctors is because last time when I took her to the children's er for her flu they themselves told me to avoid bringing your child in if you get it controlled because if they don't have the flu and go in they're most likely going to leave with the flu because of all the infected kids in the room. Second once I see her get a fever or looking worse you bet my ass will be rushing to the doctors or er for her, it's not that I'm being lazy or just not wanting to take her to the doctors. I feel like such a bad mom though! She's 11months BTW she turns 1 March 15. I've also been letting the shower steem and we stay in there for 10-15min seems to help a lot! I check her fever every diaper change and it hasn't gone past 98.5. I noticed since she started coughing she doesn't want nothing to do with her bottle not sure if it's the bottle or the formula itself because she eats and drinks everything else perfectly fine from her sippy cut been giving her lots of liquid such as lots of water and some pedialyte . If she's like this still on Friday I will be taking her in.
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