Ever since Baby C had her first serious attack of Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) when she was just a few days shy of turning 2 months old, I have a phobia of smelling foul smelling pee in her diaper. Foul smelling pee means that there is most likely an infection in her urinary tract system. Each time I change her diaper, I would instinctively smell her soiled diaper, not just once but many times. I would sniff so hard that my nose would touch the soiled diaper. At times, my nose would be playing tricks on me when I imagined that the pee smelled foul, i.e. like the pee of someone who had eaten petai or stinky beans the day before. On a second sniff, it didn’t smell foul afterall.
I don’t throw the soiled diaper away immediately. I would put it aside first and after putting a fresh diaper on Baby C, I would then carefully inspect the diaper by checking the color of the urine in the diaper and then sniff the diaper, which btw makes me look like a crazy soiled diapers-addicted mum lol! But hey, this can be life-saving yer know. At the onset of an infection in the urine (which can first be detected from the smell of the pee) , she can be treated immediately. If I wait a little longer, the mild infection could accelerate into a full-blown UTI with fever and vomitting and requires hospitalizatin.
Shireen, salute u ~ u have 3blogs , i have frequently drop by ur other 2.. i like to look at ur 3beauties. You are so lucky & like i mentioned earlier, someday i am sure my daughter and i will bump into u ~~
Yvonne… thanks for visiting my blogs 🙂
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