Roseola

Brandon came down with a fever on Monday. He wasn't acting sick but his babysitter mentioned to me that she had to wake him after a 3 hour nap and he still seemed really tired to her. He hadn't slept great the night before so I thought at first that was why he was really tired but then he was having a hard time keeping his eyes open in the car during a 10 minute drive after being awake for 30 minutes after his 3 hour nap. I felt his head and it felt warm so when we got home I took his temperature and it was 101.6. He didn't have any symptoms but had the fever that the tylenol would lower but not knock out of his system. I couldn't give him motrin because when I tried he threw it up since he didn't like the taste of it. His fever got as high as 104 on Tuesday after work so I brought him to the pediatrician and she agreed that he had no symptoms (ears and throat looked good). He ran a fever, over 103 at times, until it finally broke on Thursday afternoon. Thursday morning he was miserable. He threw up a few times and had diarrhea. Yesterday afternoon I noticed he had a rash on his back and shoulders and part of his face and was acting really irritable. The pediatrician wanted me to bring him in and it turns out he has roseola. Hopefully he will be back to himself in a few days. He is still really irritable. He weighed 23 pounds, 11 ounces yesterday and that is after not eating much all week. So I am guessing he had finally cleared 24 pounds.