Monday, July 7, 2008

We have a cause

WOW! It was a long afternoon at the doctor but after her stool sample came back my doctor had to do some research as she had never heard of what the lab came back with (neither had another Dr. fresh out of med school. I guess this is something relatively newly discovered and a couple of years ago would not have been found.) So on with it.... apparently she has some weird kind of bacterial infection (a form of traveler's diarrhea.)

The crappy party is we can't specifically pinpoint how she got it. It could have been from improperly cooked meat, veggies, or seafood (she said it's more common during grilling season with mishandled food) or from feeces. She seemed to think it was from the sand bottom pool
that we went to. She told me that she highly suggests we avoid it at all costs as it's a breeding ground from bacteria and nastiness even though it's chlorinated (goose poop city as she called it.)

However, it could have been from something as simple as a cook at a restaurant not handling meat properly, or it could have been from us, although we're very very careful and pretty liberal with the anywhere sanitizer spray, so I'm fairly doubtful it was from us.

So L is now on a "3rd or 4th generation antibiotic" to properly kill this thing. Apparently the cephalexen and amoxicillin are 1st gen antibiotics and won't kill it off. It was not the cheapest scrip either, so let's hope it does the trick quickly and our beanie can be back to normal.

1 comment:

Shannon said...

Poor Baby! I hope she gets better fast!