Chantal was down with a quiet alarming fever on Sunday evening, it was started around afternoon, when I noticed her palms were warmer than usual. Asked hubby, but he said it was nothing, so I thought I was just too worried. Then after her 2nd swim for a day (yupe, despite my worried I still took her swimming twice!), she was getting warmer, but again my hubby said she was probably too tired. So when I put her to bed, and read her some stories, I checked her temp and find out she was nearly above normal, it was 37.9. Told hubby about it, so he did checked her again, but said it was only 37.2, nothing to worry. Thou I gave her some medicine which was for a fever, but after an hour or so her temp increased to 38.9. So I took her out to the living room, and asked hubby to give her a med for a high fever, she refused to drink it first, but I managed to force the medicine to her, with a little bit of crying. When I want to take her back to the bedroom, she refused again by saying "na..na..na" (her word of saying NO). I knew if we stayed out, she won't be able to sleep, and she need her rest.
This morning, her temp was lower than the night before, thou she still had a fever, so we decided to take her to see her Paed, I did checked her hands and feet looking for any sign of HFMD, luckily she was all clean. Her paed also checked for those sign, checked both her ears for any infection, she said Chantal had only a viral infection which will only last about 3-4 days. Pheww..with all the outbreak of HFMD in Singapore, I couldn't help to be worried. Thus, that Monday we stayed home an rest, she barely eats but still have the energy to play with daddy who take MC for a day. On the evening her temp were back to normal again, and she slept soundly through the night.
