She woke up at 3.30am on Wed (6 May) morning with a 38.9degree fever.
Visit to PD next day and tested her urine (only traces were collected in the urine bag coz it took a long time for her to pee and some leaked) and found presence of bacteria. As UTI is left untreated in young children may damage kidneys, PD's SOP is always to start them on course of antibiotics first before the full urine culture comes out.
So poor Jaz took her antibiotics, and her mommy feel so heartpained.
However, when the culture came out, the following Monday, it says "mixed bacteria". It didn't say the name of any predominant bacteria but at that moment we didn't know the significance of this. By now Jaz's fever has already gone since 24hours after that 1st antibiotics dose, and we went back to see PD at the end of her course as instructed. He explained to us the necessity of further invasive tests, and another 28 day course of antibiotics as a "preventive measure" before these tests. By now, the terms "radioactive dye", "DNSA", "MCU" etc etc already rings a bell due to all the reading up the past few days.
Reluctance to submit her to such tests and that extra antibiotics prompted us to spend the whole day seeking 2nd opinions. We had length conversations with 1 other PD, and personally visited a 3rd PD, both of whom are nephrologists (kidney specialists). What they said put our mind at ease, and helped us realise the significance of the urine culture results, or lack of. And we made our decision not to do those extra tests.
It was a draining 1 week, and during the period before we spoke to these 2 paedestric nephrologists, hubby and I felt so lost and bewildered and pained, at the thought of putting her through those procedures which has such high amount of radiation.
This is Jaz's temp monitored those few days.
The pink squares are when paracetamol was administered and the orange ones are nurofen.
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