LO is 12 months old and so far a cold + ear infection is the worst. I am always so paranoid she's going to get HFM after reading about it so much on here!
What's the worst illness your LO has had?
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She's had stomach flu and HFM. Id say the stomach flu was the worst. HFM really wasn't a huge deal for us.
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Thankfully just one weird fever virus - he spiked high fevers and was lethargic, but those were his only symptoms.
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Croup - we had to go to the ER
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T had a virus last week and we wound up in the hospital because they thought it was meningitis. It wasn't a bad virus, he recovered after a few days (one week exactly and he's 100% back to normal) but the hospital ordeal made it the worst.
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She had a horrible vomiting virus when she was about 14 months and was sick 14 times in 4 hours. We had to take her to ER, she was so poorly, bless her.
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If we're not counting anaphylactic reactions, roseola...she had a really high fever for a few days! It sucked that she was so sick but I secretly loved holding her for days straight.
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ITP
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A nasty virus a couple weeks ago. High fever and sores in his mouth.
thats been his only real sickness so far other than teething related ear infections and a couple minor colds/runny noses.
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Norovirus. On Christmas Eve. Blah.
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Hm croup and double ear infection around Christmas/New Year's was pretty miserable.@Danizaur: what a relief that ordeal is over!!
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Stomach flu! YUCK. And, it was on her birthday party weekend. The worst.
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He had a really nasty staph infection when he was 5 days old. We didn't know if he was going to make it at first.
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An intestinal malrotation (which required surgery to correct).
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Norovirus twice.
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A weird fever virus that lasted for four days.
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@MsLipGloss: my DH had that! Needed emergency surgery when he was a kid.
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@hilsy85: same- croup with double ear infection.
at thanksgiving and out of town. Horrible.
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DS: pneumonia. It was so sad
DD: she had a bad virus when she was a few months old, and she had diarrhea so bad for 10ish days. Her butt was so raw, I felt so bad -
@MsLipGloss: Have you read Drew Magary's book "Someone Could Get Hurt," or specifically, the first chapter (also a separate article somewhere) called "Malrotation"? Oh my gosh, all.the.tears. I cannot imagine.
J had severe jaundice and dehydration as a newborn - his bili spiked at 21 or 22 when he was 3 days old, he ended up under the lights in the NICU for 3 days, it was horrible. After that, probably croup. Super scary when you have no idea what it is at 2 AM and your baby can't breathe
Most of the time, he's healthy as a horse. But when he gets sick, he really goes all out!
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HFM sucked bad, but the double ear infection spiked a fever that landed us in the ER.
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@hilsy85: we were really really lucky they caught it when they did!
@keepcalmcarrie: I have not! I will certainly think about it. But we had a really scary moment in recovery, and I still have a hard time keeping my shizazz together when I think about it.
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@keepcalmcarrie: OMG that book made me cry so much! I loved it (masochistic much, lol!).
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Croup and double ear infections. Croup was our first ER visit. Ear infections were a solo visit to my parents with me in tears about him not feeling well.
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@hilsy85: Me too!!! The book is amazing, and I love Drew Magary anyway. My husband is not a crier, but that book got him a few times too.
@MsLipGloss: I understand that. The chapter could definitely be triggering. But maybe in a few years... it's just a really amazing, moving piece of writing. I'm so sorry you went through that experience
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Hfm was the worst.
He has also had many viruses and colds, roseola, and a few tummy bugs. Aside from hfm I can think of two other viruses that were really, really bad.
He's 27m. Most of his illnesses were from 5-14 months when he started daycare.
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herpetic whitlow. she had sores under her finger nails that got super swollen/pus filled. she was miserable for about 10 days and we were quarantined that whole time! sucks because she can get it again but hopefully it won't present that bad.
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@winniebee: the daycare plague is so tough for those months until immunity is built up.
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LO is 23 months and her worst has been croup (luckily only a moderate case) she's had a cold 3 times but that's it.
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Pneumonia.
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HFM. It was miserable
We are incredibly blessed and I am eternally thankful for his good health thus far
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Pneumonia. Twice for both kids. Stomach flu was pretty bad too.
RSI. Thankful there hasn't been anything worse so far. -
A cold. And an ear infection (separately).
The worst he's ever felt though was last week and it was a mix of allergies/fever/teething. I've never had to sleep in his room before and I did it two nights in a row because he was so pained and didn't want to be alone.
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Only a bad reaction to banana, twice (puke, so much puke). Bananas aren't allowed in our house anymore.
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Croup was probably the scariest.
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Bronchiolitis 5 times since December. The last one in June almost needed to be admitted into the hospital.
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Norovirus and roseola. Bleh.
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Just a cold-- but she got it at 3.5 weeks old and we couldn't do anything for her and it was really sad.
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Norovirus was the absolute worst. And then I caught it, which was fun. All of this while on vacation!
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@JennyG: we were admitted in December for it when little one was 3 months. Worse thing ever. He's had it twice and RSV once. It's so scary when your child can't breath!
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