What was the worst illness your child had?

Question

Use details! My baby has been pretty healthy but is worst was brochitis, he had it so bad he had to use a nebulizer. I think he was 13months at the time. He's 19mo now.

Answer 1

One of my daughters was sick for an entire year when she was 12. She hurt her knee playing running bases and got a bad infection that they couldn't figure out. She had trouble breathing and was very tired, weak, and started having some memory problems. She was tested for mono, lime disease etc but nothing came up and no medications were solving the problem. It killed me to take her to doctor after doctor, do test after test and them come up with NOTHING One doctor asked her, "Are you faking because you don't want to go to school?" I went through the roof!
After a year of laying in bed, sleeping 14-16hrs a day, the doctors started having her take some antibiotics, lots of vitamins, going to physical therapy and working out. Within a couple weeks she started feeling A LOT better. With her body moving and being active, it helped to beat whatever it was that was in her system. It was a long hard year.

Answer 2

My 1st son had jaundice that required having a wallaby blanket around him at home from the time he came home from the hospital until he was 2 wks old. He had to have his billirubin levels checked every day and was finally taken off the blanket when they went back to a safe zone. The nurse would come to the house and weigh him and prick his finger to test the levels everyday. It was exhausting. When the power went out we had to run to the nearest place we could with electric and plug the machine in. He couldn't sleep with any clothes on and it was hard to hold him.

My 2nd son the worst illness was the Croup. He got thrush when he was just a few days old. They said that was because i had a really bad infection when i delivered him. He then got the Croup right after the thrush started getting better. The antibiotics for the Croup brought the Thrush back so for the first 6 months of his life he was on meds for Croup and Thrush. After he finally got better with the Croup and Thrush he ended up being diagnosed with horrible asthma and was given a nebulizer and now has meds to take on a daily basis plus he has horrible seasonal allergies that triggers his asthma. He has gotten Croup a couple more times since then. The Dr said his asthma and less developed lungs (due to prematurity and GD) put him at high risk for things like that. It was horrible. The poor baby had a hard time eating and coughed all the time and was constantly running a fever. He hated meds but had to take them.

Answer 3

My daughter last summer when she was 2 1/2, had pneumonia. It was not the worse kind but she had hives all over. I felt so bad for her. Then the same daughter the winter before had a bad stomach bug, was throwing up every 20-30 minutes, finally in the middle of the night took her to the ER, and and stopped throwing up until about 10am and then did not stop again until about 6:30 that night, and then a little less than a week she was just miserable and did not feel well.

Answer 4

My oldest daughter's worst illness was when she caught a cold, it turned into croupe cough , which then turned into Phenomia . She was in the hospital for a couple days , and had to have a nebulizer. she was then diagnosed with child hood asthma, which she's outgrown ( she was 2 yrs old when she got sick, she's almost 5 now ) She only used her nebulizer when she's got a respitory infection or a really bad chest cold.

Answer 5

Hello:

When my daughter was in daycare,she got Roseola which is a skin rash from head to toe and I was literally hysterical because I didn't know what she had! My poor baby's skin was so rashy,and it felt like it was on fire and she was running a temp too! I rushed her to our family doctor and he had to do a throat culture for strep and she had that and he put her on Amoxicillan for two weeks to get rid of the skin rash and strep throat.

The other illness is that she had the flu last year and when her fever spiked to 104 degrees,I called 911 and had her taken to the hospital because she wasn't acting right since she had the flu. Our family doctor met us at the emergency room,and he stayed with us until her fever went down and he wouldn't leave her or us until he was positive that she would be ok!

Answer 6

when my son was 2yrs old he started to sleep all day long and after 2 days i was like something isn't right so i took him to the family doctor and she said it was a chest infection and i said but a chest infection doesn't keep you sleeping for 2 days. I took him to the ER and he had massive viral pneumonia in both lungs and was hospitalized for 18 days.
With my daughter she has breathing difficulties right from birth(took the OB nurses 3 min 47 seconds to get her to breathe that first breath) well every 2 days after she came home she had to be rushed to the ER cause she would stop breathing, that went on for 6 months and still to this day no one knows what is wrong with her, by the time she was 2 it became to much for me and my oldest son and i gave her up for adoption to a family that could help her.

Answer 7

My son is really healthy, but when he was born he was running a fever of 104. I was GBS positive. So they took him to the NICU and did a spinal tap which should have shown whether he was GBS positive or not within 72 hours. But, they lost the specimen and tried to lie to me about it. As a result, he had to spend a week in the NICU hooked up to machines.

He also gets febrile seizures when his fever spikes. The first one was when he was about 14 mo. old. I was frantic! He has had 5 of them and last winter he had to be hospitalized for it. He was very sick, had 2 seizures within 24 hours so we went to the ER. After 7 hours of waiting, it was 2 am, we went home to wait till morning and call his doctor. It was county hospital and they had had 3 traumas that night and couldn't get us in and told us to go home and come back in a couple of hours. By then he was dehydrated, vomitting blood, running a fever of 103. So, we rushed him back to the ER and he was hospitalized for 3 days.

Answer 8

I thank God for this, the worst illness my son has ever had (he's 19 months) was a cold last winter!

My sister had abdominal tuberculosis (rare!) when she was 9 and was hospitalized on and off for a year while dozens of specialits tried to diagnose her. Looking back now that I am a parent, I can't believe how frightening that must have been for my parents!

Answer 9

My son was born with asthma and at the age of 3 months he had the flu and it caused his asthma to act up really bad and he was in the childrens hospital for 3 days.They called it baby asthma but he has grown out of it now that he is 6 years old.

Answer 10

My son had pneumonia when he was about nine months old in which he caught at the daycare I had him in. As a result he also had cellulitis of the eye(eye swoll shut) and was in the hospital for a week. He was our first and it hurt like hell to see him go through all that.