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no tonsil hockey for my kids lol |
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by celtica189  (November 2006) (rank 500+) |
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my baby has tonsilltis and i wondered if anyone elses baby has had that and how they dealt with it any tips. What sort of symptoms they had?
My first daughter suffered severly with tonsilitis and sleep apnoea and as a single parent it was terribly difficult.
she had it from a baby till she was two years old and spent only one week a month well the rest of the time she was on some sort of antibiotic,
when she was a baby the only way i could tell she was sick was
1 temperature
2 restless
3 grabbing at her ears ( usually ear infections come with tonsilitis
4 refusal of food or bottle
5 her breath would smell terrible due to the puss on her tonsils
it got to the point that as she got older she could tell me when she was sick(but i knew before her because her breath changed. she also got to the point that all i could do when she was a baby was feed her smaller bottles more frequently and then as she got older she ate lots of yoghurt and i would use a potatoe peeler to slice vegetables and steam them then i would cook up a pasta and sauce and mix them together she would then eat small(and i mean small) amounts of this often,
then it became really bad and she stopped eating propery i gave her a childs iron mixture which help pick up her appetite. she was put on the two year waiting list to have her tonsils and adenoids removed but oi was told that even the emergency waiting list she was on would still be two years. i went ballistic and wrote a rather urgent letter to the head of the hospital telling them that i will not stand by and watch her suffer or slowly starve to death, she got an appointment two weeks later and has never been sick a day since and she is 13.
if your child is having more than say 7 to 10 bouts of tonsilitis a year they will remove them, if it is offered then have it done because her tonsils and adnoids were so swollen she used to stop breathing in her sleep.
just keep pervserveering with different foods and cool food is soothing toi them , also lots of fluids too.
good luck its always hard when a child is sick.
