Monday Update February 4th

We are seeing lots of all the typical winter woes.

My most common complaints have been the kids with the basic cold/ cough/ mild-moderate fever illness.
The fevers have been gone within 3 days but the cough can linger for several weeks

There is active influenza in our office and out in the community.
I am seeing more type A than type B, (likely because the shot seems to be protecting against strain B and many of our patients are protected)
The flu patients look SICK. They are low energy and have body aches. There is always a fever and most of the time they have some cough and congestion. The fever may last 5 days, if it is any longer than that they need to be seen.

There are lots of kids with conjunctivitis.
Ideally we will take a look at them to get a firm diagnosis.

There is some strep throat around. High fevers with no congestion make me want to rule this out.

There is some slap cheek out there. Theses kids will have on and off bright red cheeks and some of them seem to have mild hives. This may or may not come with a fairly high fever. This comes and goes for more than a week.

At this point we are still wanting to look at these kids, but if I keep seeing loads of the same presentation, I will probably slow down about bringing them in.

...and now for the fun news!!! Dr Anne is at 35 weeks and counting.
She is feeling fine and thanks everyone for the well wishes.


Stay well,

Judy