Hi All,

I have a five month old baby girl, who has been rather healthy until just recently.

For about 4 days my baby has been sick. Diahrea, fever, and occassional vomiting.

Had the wife take take her to the hospital two times on this. They put her on some pill, and gave her an electrolyte drink.

Then last night I came home, and the soles of her feet were rather red in lieu of pink, and has spread to the sides of her foot. She has also developed small pink/red chalky circles mainly on her legs (not raised.)

Any clue?

PS- just so you don't think I am a complete bonehead, the wife has an appointment at 2pm with a western hospital which I had her make. Will try to join her at some point while she is there as well.

Thanks in advance,

Nick

I am also the father of a near 5 month old baby daughter and the one thing I insist on is that whichever doctor we see must be able to speak good english. I do not want a Thai telling my wife in Thai and then having to rely on her translation skills.

I get the feeling that they would either ply them with unnecessary medicines or just come up with a mai pen rai / doesn't matter / it'll be ok sort of attitude and the Thais just accept it out of deference.

SoCal,

Let us know what the doc said....I Hope its something simple..

Honestly, I was horrified by what I saw last Thurs night when I got home from work. I guess because I had never seen anything like it, and of course being a parent.

In any case, went to doctors Friday afternoon. He basically thew out 80% of the pills the Vietnamese doctors gave, and provided new instructions for the two remaining. The redness of her feet had largely disipated by this time, although still had the blotches on her legs. He said this was an infection. Sorry I do not have more info on this, as I was satisfied to hear it wan't something major. He said it should go away in a couple of days, and if not he would administer antibiotics.

Friday night the baby cried all night. Then by Saturday she was back to her old self (smiling, happy, not crying, sleeping through the night, etc.)

Well, glad it wasn't anything major, and have her set up with a foreign pediatrician that I can actually talk to for future issues that I am sure will arise.

Honestly, I was horrified by what I saw last Thurs night when I got home from work. I guess because I had never seen anything like it, and of course being a parent.

In any case, went to doctors Friday afternoon. He basically thew out 80% of the pills the Vietnamese doctors gave, and provided new instructions for the two remaining. The redness of her feet had largely disipated by this time, although still had the blotches on her legs. He said this was an infection. Sorry I do not have more info on this, as I was satisfied to hear it wan't something major. He said it should go away in a couple of days, and if not he would administer antibiotics.

Friday night the baby cried all night. Then by Saturday she was back to her old self (smiling, happy, not crying, sleeping through the night, etc.)

Well, glad it wasn't anything major, and have her set up with a foreign pediatrician that I can actually talk to for future issues that I am sure will arise.

was the 'western' hospital the FV hospital in HCMC?

Family Medical Practice: vietnammedicalpractice.com

Honestly, I was horrified by what I saw last Thurs night when I got home from work. I guess because I had never seen anything like it, and of course being a parent.

In any case, went to doctors Friday afternoon. He basically thew out 80% of the pills the Vietnamese doctors gave, and provided new instructions for the two remaining. The redness of her feet had largely disipated by this time, although still had the blotches on her legs. He said this was an infection. Sorry I do not have more info on this, as I was satisfied to hear it wan't something major. He said it should go away in a couple of days, and if not he would administer antibiotics.

Friday night the baby cried all night. Then by Saturday she was back to her old self (smiling, happy, not crying, sleeping through the night, etc.)

Well, glad it wasn't anything major, and have her set up with a foreign pediatrician that I can actually talk to for future issues that I am sure will arise.

Glad to hear your girl is back to normal. I can completely understand your fear. While I don't know of any docs in Vietnam, it seems like you found one you can communicate well with. We used to take our boy to Dr. Buppha at Samitivej in Bangkok. She is great.

Did you look up the symptoms on the net? You can try various sites like babycenter.com.

All the best with a sincere heart.

SoCal, Sheryl is our resident health expert on this forum so if you have anything like this again I'd immediatey post it in 'Health' - you will get a quicker response and Sheryl is usually in there.

Glad everything's okay - it's a horrid feeling when your child gets ill

glad she's ok Cal