There is an old song, children's nursery rhyme, about the flu. I don't recall the exact words but its about shutting the windows and doors to keep the bird Enza from flying in the house. Well, we've all got it. Even LD. Of course I, like every mom, want to make my child feel better. But not at the expense of his long term health. So before we packed him up for the pediatrician's office I ran out and got baby vitamin C. Attempting to slowly and safely reach vitamin C saturation in an infant...not so easy. I don't want to scare him by giving him explosive diarrhea.
Knowing that RDV means nothing for practical purposes and/or therapeutic dosing, I had to go with common sense. So a dose and a half 3 times a day. Didn't reach saturation that day. But, I didn't want to up the dose either. A little can go a long way if you're on the cusp of saturation. The next day we went to the quack. And I say that lovingly, I adore our pediatricians. It's the flu. Awesome. But good news was/is he's handling it really well. So I've continued the vitamin C 3x daily. No diarrhea, but then it occurred to me he isn't likely going to get diarrhea when he is using everything he's consuming to fight the flu. He hasn't pooped in days. Well he pooped today and it was runny. Four days of slowly reaching saturation and we did it.
After seeing the pediatrician today I can say that it looks like LD will be on the mend soon. He is no longer getting worse, so we should see improvement in a day or so and then continuing improvement from then on. I think I will continue the vitamin C therapy though, just to ensure he doesn't get any other illness that might come home with dad.
