Mummy decide to bring Zethan to the PD on Mon (24th) as she's worried about his feedings decline as well as the 2 white spots/lumps observed on Zethan left gum.
without appointment, the wait is going to be terrible and to make matter worst, it's a Mon night! due to the swine flu precaution, waiting area in the clinic is moved to the corridor which is bad since it's rather warm. We registered and decide to go for our dinner since it's not a good idea to be among coughing and feverish kids.
daddy received a call from them after our dinner but Zethan is having his milk (without much success). He refuse to drink his milk for almost like 7 hours and yet subsequent feed only down 70ml.
this trip to PD wasn't vey fruitful and conclusive as the PD did not address my query on the white lumps on his gum despite repeatedly posing the question. He only attribute it to probable teething which should sprout around 6th mth. But initial teething should be the front lower incisor which does little to explain the spots on the left side of his gum.
He agree that his milk intake is a little too low and asked about his poo and urine patterns. Suggested that we can try to switch formula if drinking more water doesn't help to alleviate his hard initial poo issue. Zethan love to use force while peeing which PD asked if he is 'shooting' properly. A tough question to answer since when he pee, it's hardly visible behind the diaper. Anyhow his advice is if the teething gel doesn't help resulting in increasing his milk intake to close to 800ml, we would have to come by for a review and urine test for UTI (which can be asymptomatic).
As of now, his total milk intake is still fluctuating between 600 - 750ml thus perhaps will monitor for a few more days before deciding the next course of action!
without appointment, the wait is going to be terrible and to make matter worst, it's a Mon night! due to the swine flu precaution, waiting area in the clinic is moved to the corridor which is bad since it's rather warm. We registered and decide to go for our dinner since it's not a good idea to be among coughing and feverish kids.
daddy received a call from them after our dinner but Zethan is having his milk (without much success). He refuse to drink his milk for almost like 7 hours and yet subsequent feed only down 70ml.
this trip to PD wasn't vey fruitful and conclusive as the PD did not address my query on the white lumps on his gum despite repeatedly posing the question. He only attribute it to probable teething which should sprout around 6th mth. But initial teething should be the front lower incisor which does little to explain the spots on the left side of his gum.
He agree that his milk intake is a little too low and asked about his poo and urine patterns. Suggested that we can try to switch formula if drinking more water doesn't help to alleviate his hard initial poo issue. Zethan love to use force while peeing which PD asked if he is 'shooting' properly. A tough question to answer since when he pee, it's hardly visible behind the diaper. Anyhow his advice is if the teething gel doesn't help resulting in increasing his milk intake to close to 800ml, we would have to come by for a review and urine test for UTI (which can be asymptomatic).
As of now, his total milk intake is still fluctuating between 600 - 750ml thus perhaps will monitor for a few more days before deciding the next course of action!
haiz, worrying!
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