PLEASE take your baby to an urgent care clinic or after hours clinic if you can't get into a family dr's clinic.
I got sick Friday afternoon. By Friday night I had chills and was miserable. By Saturday, my throat was on fire. My Saturday evening, my face looked (literally) like a tomato - it was beet red and starting to swell. By Sunday morning when I got up, I looked like I'd gained 30 lbs - my face was swollen horribly, and the redness was then going down my chest and shoulders. I caved and went to the urgent care clinic (I'd been holding out thinking that the whole thing was just a bad cold and would pass w/in @ 72 hours).
Diagnosis? SEVERE strep throat and scarletina on top of it (caused by the strep throat). If I'd gone Friday evening, I would be feeling great today - and my nine yo dd wouldn't have it (we did catch hers immediately though - when she said she had a sore throat, we took her straight to the family dr's office this morning).
My face is still red and splotchy (it's Monday night now as I'm typing this). I have tons of little bumps all over my face, neck, and chest, and it ITCHES. ANd I have a week of this to look fw to and then a great icky peeling of the skin (like a sunburn) once the seven days passes. YUCK.
All this to say - I can't even imagine what it would be like to have been that sick and not be able to communicate to anybody that it was my throat hurting so badly (it literally felt like I had glass shards in my throat, and the nurse said it was almost swollen closed when she checked me Sunday morning).
The nursing lots but no appetite sounds like me - I couldn't eat but was so thirsty I couldn't stand it. I drank and drank and drank water and tea, but nothing helped me feel any better.
PLEASE take your baby b/c if the baby has strep, that would just be horrible to have to go through for days w/ no way to communicate it.
And for what it's worth, I'm one of those people who generally avoids the dr like the plague!
