Olive Oil in The Ear

I don't know about you but I find nothing more exciting than putting olive oil into my sons ear in hopes to cure his ear infection. This is now his fourth ear infection and I am just getting uncomfortable with loading up his little body with antibiotics each time he gets one. Just in case you didn't know ... while antibiotics do a great job on snuffing out the infection, they also do a greater job in snuffing out a lot of the other 'good germs' that we have in our body that serve a good purpose.

So far this is the second night that I am trying it out. He was a lot better today. We had to stay home from work because he did have a slight fever (hasn't been back since the olive oil). We have to wait at least 24 hours of fever free before he can go back to day care. We should be fine for tomorrow.

Poor little guy of course hasn't been eating right and is very fussy ... but who can blame him.

Getting Over It

This weekend I discovered I had what I think was the flu. I had the swore itchy throat, the fever and migraine head ache, oh and stuff nose. But now the worse is finally over and I am getting better. Now I just have a burny nose and slight head head but I am up and working and getting on with it.

The hardest part was being concerned about what effect this would have on the baby and what medications I could or couldn't take to help pass the time. The hardest part was because it was the weekend and we couldn't just call our doctors office. In the end I took Robitussin for the cold part and Tylenol for the fever. Small doses, not the full strength so recovery was a little longer. But lots of fluids and rest helped also. As far as I know baby and I are fine ... and so far Chris has not gotten sick ... YEAH!!!

Peace Out,
Philippa Channer