Rubella

So last week it was pretty crazy. Eliza was diagnosed with Rubella. She has been immunised and we did all the right things. It was so out of the blue!

On Wednesday after being fine in the morning, when making lunch for her she came up to me holding her forehead saying that it was hurting. I asked her if she had walked into something and she said 'yes.' Not helpful. I made her lunch but she refused to eat it and kept clutching at her forehead. I asked her if she just wanted to go to sleep and she said yes so I put her to bed for her nap. After about 30mins she woke up saying that her forehead was still sore. I decided to take her temperature - 38.9. Ok. Panadol time. She had the panadol and went back to sleep. Around bedtime she started to complain again of her head hurting. I took her temperature again and it was 39.5. Not good. I gave her more panadol and that helped her go to sleep. Around 10:30pm she woke again and I took her temperature - 38.5 so I gave her some more panadol. She then slept the rest of the night which was good. 

On Thursday morning Eliza's headache was gone (which was good) and her temperature was back down to low 37s. Both these things were good. Then I noticed that she had some spots on her feet. I looked at her tummy and she had spots there too. Looking closer she had spots from her head to her toes.

At nighttime her spots were still there but over the whole day she wasn't really fazed by them. I called up Health Direct to check if I should take her to the doctor but they suggested that I just keep an eye on them and if they hadn't gone after 3 days then take her to the doctor or if her temperature returned. 

In the morning when Eliza woke up her spots were worse, particularly on her face. 

I decided to call up the doctor and make an appointment just to be safe. We were able to get in so went to the appointment. Paul looked at Eliza and asked if she had any injections in the last couple of weeks. She hadn't. He took her temperature and it was still a little high (mid 37s). He looked at her ears and throat and both were clear. He felt her glands and said that there were quite a few there. He said that she had a mild case of rubella. There wasn't anything that he could do but she needed to stay away from pregnant people for the next 3 days and other kids (tricky to do with having Alexander and Daniel but other kids). Fortunately she was fine and her normal self - not really fazed by the rash which was good. 

The rash was basically gone by Monday but I still kept her home from preschool pick up/drop off just to be safe (thankfully Mum and Dad were able to help out). Tuesday she was perfectly fine. What a random illness to have happen. I'm glad that she has had the immunisations because I'd hate to think how she would have been without some immunity in her body. Crazy times!