Aston's First Sickness...... :(

Never did I expected Aston's first sickness to be so severe.  I was expecting more common sickness like cold or cough but sadly Aston's first sickness was Urinary Tract Infection (UTI).  I was in shocked firstly to discover his urine was no longer yellow but brownish on the diaper and it has a strong smell.  I told papa about it and he said maybe he's heaty.  I knew deep down that something is not right about Aston because I also noticed that he showed discomfort for a few seconds and after that sudden outburst he will be fine.  So I told papa I suspect he's in pain when peeing.  Anyway, I didn't want to push it to papa to bring him to the hospital because I know papa will think that I'm over-reacting.  So I told him, we'll see what happens after lunch if still no improvement we will go see doctor.

After lunch, I told papa to check his diaper and he found a few droplets of blood on the diaper.  I told papa to just maintain the diaper as we need to show it to the doctor.  So off we went to Aston's paed in Pantai and told him what happen.  We had to take a sample of Aston's urine and the doctor suggested that we do an ultrasound to make sure everything is OK in terms of his kidney down to his bladder.

The urine test came back there's bacteria in the urine and thankfully the ultrasound shows that everything is normal.  So doctor said that it's probably a bacteria infection.  I asked how does he get the infection and doctor said Uti is hard to tell.  It's either through the blood it enters the kidney or through the penis up to the bladder.  He mentioned that there's always bacteria around that area and usually even if they go up to the bladder, the bacteria will be out when we pee.  The infections comes about when the bacteria manage to stay in the bladder and start to breed.  Anyway, doctor prescribe Aston antibiotics (Augmentin) for one week while waiting for the lab to culture the urine to see what type of bacteria it is.  It turns out that it is E.Coli.

Aston is a very strong boy.  Eventhough he was sick he didn't show any signs of sickness at all except for the discomfort.  Usually symptoms of UTI is unexplained fever (no cough or cold).  I guess it was a blessing in disguise that it was quite severe to the extend that there's blood in his urine for us to find out he was not well because he did not have fever.  Otherwise, we would not have known that he was not well and I cannot imagine if it was not detected early.  After the trip to the hospital his urine was back to clear yellow but the smell was still not normal.  Noticed that the smell lasted for about 5 days.  He was also very cooperative in taking in his medication.

One week later, we went back to check his urine and thank god that the bacteria has been cleared.  Yayyy!