Ouch! My throat hurts!

On Wednesday of this week Anna started developing a fever. It got to 103 that night, so I brought Anna to the pediatrician's office on Thursday. The doctor we saw (not her regular pediatrician) said that her tonsils looked terrible and that she had tonsillitis and possibly strep throat. He said that it is unusual for a child as young as Anna to have strep but b/c her throat and tonsils looked pretty bad he wanted to start her on antibiotics while we waited 48 hours for the strep culture to come back.

On Friday Anna had her 15 month check up (she's in the 60th percentile for height and the 30th for weight, for those who are interested) with her regular doc. She was skeptical that it might be strep but agreed that she had tonsillitis.

By Saturday Anna had had three nights where she had slept very little and had fevers of 103. She also had several long bouts of hysterical crying that day. She hadn't been eating or drinking well. The previous night her breathing had started to sound whistely and when she slept she snored (something she's never done before). I called the ped's office Saturday afternoon and because of all these things the nurse on call recommended we take Anna to the ER.

We spent three hours at the ER. The doctors said that she had blisters and ulcers on her tonsils and throat that looked viral. They gave us the okay to stop the antibiotics. They also gave us some short acting medicine to give Anna prior to eating and sleeping that would numb her throat a little. We tried it out while we were there and Anna drank more than she had all day long. They also recommended that we alternate Tylenol and Motrin every three hours and follow up with her pediatrician on Monday.