Cold and cough - 7 week infant

Thank you fitness and gavinimurthy!

I am taking ferrum phos and nursing her regularly.

My mother insisted on taking my daughter to an allopathic doctor nevertheless.

He said she has a viral infection and prescribed her an expectorant for the cough, another medicine for the fever (very slight - 98.2 underarm) and an oral antibiotic to be given over a course of five days.

I am averse to the idea of giving her these, especially the antibiotic since she's not even 2 months old yet and weighs only 3.7kg.

However, I don't want to risk it either.

Do you think the antibiotic is warranted. Is there something I can alternatively give her? Or just the breastmilk and Ferrum Phos would suffice?

Thank you so much.

Thank you gavinimurthy! Reinforces what my gut instincts were telling me. Appreciate the response. :)

Hello again gavinimurthy and fitness

Her underarm temperature spiked to 99.2F (equivalent to 100.2F actual, I beleive) today, so gave her infant paracetamol the doc prescribed. She isn't even 2 months yet, so pretty scared about the fever rising.

I don't want to suppress the fever and worsen the infection however. Being a FTM I worry a bit. She still has the cough.

Is there some remedy I can give her for the fever, should I repeat the paracetamol or wait the fever out? It seems to spike particularly at night.

Thanks!

Thank you gavinimurthy! Will get bico 11. She is feeding well and is active when the fever is down. She only coughs when awake and sleeps deeply otherwise.

Okay. Hoping for the best. Thanks for all your help so far! :)

Reporting in.

Did not give her paracetamol again. Gave her bioco 11 all of yesterday. Fever is gone now.

She's doing good. The cough has gone down quite a lot - It seems to come from deeper though, but that's probably me being a worrywart. Sneezing is negligible. She is alert and active when awake, but she is sleeping a tad more.

Overall, looks like the little girl fought it back. :)

Thank you so much!

Hello gavinimurthy,

Reporting in. She is active and alert. Coughing may be once in a couple of hours.

She's feeding well. She spits up the mucus with milk. She gets quite distressed when she can't expel the mucus.

Also, I hear a rumbling from her chest when she breathes, probably from the residual mucus.

I have been giving her bioco 11.

Thanks!

Immediately after feeding.

Okay. I do burp her. She often spits up on my shoulder while I am trying to burp her. But, it doesn't seem to trouble her too much.

Should I give her bioco 11 or stop? Also, the mucus that I hear rumbling would clear up?

Hello gavinimurthy,

I was planning to wait a full 24 hours before reporting again, but it seems like the cough is back.

Yesterday she had barely coughed, but tonight she was coughing again and this morning too. The rumbling sound in her chest is gone.But where yesterday she'd take very shallow coughs, now they are deeper.

I think she was running a fever too at night, but I am not sure.

I'll observe her for a few more hours and report back.

Thanks gavinimurthy!

Hello gavinimurthy,

She still has the cough and nose congestion. No fever. She is alert and active otherwise.

I am not using any topical creams, to answer John's message. In my third trimester, however, I did have unbearable body itching at night (I couldn't sleep unless I took a cold water bath). When it would get too much, I used to apply lactocalamine lotion.