Pneumonia

A couple of weeks ago, Porter suddenly woke up in the middle of the night coughing so hard that he sounded like a barking seal.  He was also having a lot of trouble breathing. Porter has had a couple of friends that he has played with recently that have had the croup, so we were for sure that is what it was.  The next morning he wasn’t any better so we took him into get checked.  I almost died when they told me that he had pneumonia.  They said that the majority of the pneumonia was in his left lung and that he would have to be placed on antibiotics.  Porter seems to get sick a lot, but never with anything this big.  He ran a fever of 103 for about 3 days before it broke.  He was so sick and this is how our days were pretty much spent. 

And he had never been on antibiotics before.  After being on the antibiotic (amoxicillin) for about a week, we noticed that he started breaking out in horrible rashes all over his body.  He was so uncomfortable.  I called the pediatrician and were told to cover his rashes with hydrocortisone cream and to give him Benadryl.  They were pretty sure that it was an allergic reaction to his antibiotic.  Poor little Porter.  We switched him to a new antibiotic and the next 3 days his rash would seem to clear and then in the evenings it would come back full force. 

So we kept giving him the cream and Benadryl and eventually it has seemed to clear up.

He is still coughing (2 weeks later) but is feeling much better.