Category Archive: Sherilyn

July 30th, 2009
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A Very Bloated Sherilyn

Since infant, Sherilyn has been a very constipated child.  When she was a newborn,  she would only poo poo once in 8-10 days, which got me worried sick.  But when she finally poo pooed, it was explosive and she normally spent a good 15-30 minutes pooping lots.  All these years up until now, Sherilyn needs to drink lots of water, prune juice, eat papaya and dragon fruit to assist her with an easy bowel movement.   Every now and then, she even needed enema to induce her to move her bowels. 

Lately, Sherilyn’s appetite has been really bad.  She used to love drinking milk but for the past 1 month, she avoided milk and when she drank her milk, she would take forever to finish a cup of 6 ounces milk. This fler just doesn’t seem to get hungry at all lately. When she didn’t want to eat her dinner one night, we punished her and didn’t give her any milk before she went to bed. I thought she would be famished the next morning but I was wrong. The next morning, she sat at the dining table daydreaming, with the cup of milk untouched for almost an hour (and she was already late for school) until I flashed the cane at her. When it comes to meal times, she would need 2-3 hours every day to painfully swallow her food. I suspected that something wasn’t quite right with her.

Lately, she has also been complaining of having tummy aches.  Last week, the hubs and I were shocked when we saw blood in the toilet bowl during one of her poopie sessions.  There was quite an amount of blood and when asked if she felt pain at her bottom or in her tummy, she said no. This got the hubs and I to be concerned. A few days later, we brought her to see the paed. Our paed touched her tummy and commented that it was bloated and hard. You see, Sherilyn has a habit of holding back her poop… even when she keeps farting, she would resist going to the toilet. This happens when she’s either too lazy to sit at the throne or when she’s overly engrossed playing or watching TV. According to our paed, the poop have accummulated in her intestines, thus the bloatedness, tummy ache, frequent flatulance and the lack of appetite.

She was given Duphalac syrup (Lactul Solution) by our paed. She has to drink the solution thrice a day, until she gets a diarrhea, after which the solution can be reduced to once a day. Once she has a regular pattern of bowel movement, the medication can be stopped. Frankly, I am not really keen in feeding her with laxatives. I may try feeding her with psyllium husk (natural fibre) one of these days because this has helped me tremendously in my bowel movement.

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Constipation, Sherilyn
March 14th, 2009
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Both Older Girls Down

…with cough and runny nose.  With only 3 more days left before their trip to Hong Kong, I didn’t want to let them heal on their own, so I told hubby to bring them to the paed this morning.  Flying with a runny nose can be really disastrous and torturous as the ears will most likely get blocked.  My ears got blocked for several days one time when I had the sniffles and boarded a plane for a vacation.  Moreover, Alycia has quite a bit of phlegm irritating her throat and has been coughing and throwing up since yesterday.  She has no appetite and has not been eating much.  Alycia has not been this sick for many months and she must have caught the virulent bug from either one of us in the house as almost everyone is having the sniffles and cough lately.  The paed prescribed them with a cough syrup, a cold syrup, fever meds and a bottle of powder antibiotics (not reconstituted yet) to be on guard, just in case their condition worsens.  Praying hard that Baby C will not get bitten by the virulent bug too!

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Alycia, Cold and sore throat, Cough, Sherilyn
February 9th, 2009
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Peanut Butter With Egg Yolk

When it comes to eating, Sherilyn my brat has her own moods. In general, she loves eggs and I’m thankful that she does coz eggs have very good quality protein. I try to ensure that Alycia and Sherilyn eat an egg a day. On school going days, I will fry them each an egg but on weekends, they will eat half a hard boiled egg during breakfast.

Last Saturday, Sherilyn wouldn’t want to eat her egg yolk during breakfast. I was coaxing her to egg the yolk but this brat of mine has yet another bright idea. She wanted to mix some peanut butter into her egg yolk. She seems to be very bizarre  creative in her combination of food and in the way she eats them. So peanut butter it is that I gave her and there she goes :


Eewwww…. I wouldn’t even want to taste it… but this brat  walloped the egg yolk wrapped with peanut butter!

In case you’re wondering why there’s an ugly wooden tray beneath her bowl, well, I now have to put a tray under her plate of food, bowl of soup and cup of water coz this clumsy-pot has a habit of spilling drinks and dropping food on the table/floor at every single meal every single day. I’ve yet to find the time to go shopping to buy a more decent looking tray for her.

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January 15th, 2009
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Sherilyn’s All Well Now

After 5 days of being down with high fever, a swollen throat and stuffy nose, my little cili padi is back on her feet again.  She started going to pre-school again yesterday, attended her second ballet lesson (and wore her new ballet costume and she was in seventh heaven!), regained her appetite (and boy, her appetite was quite ravenous!) and stopped being crabby.  She was all bubbly, chatty and mischevious again since yesterday.  The fever only subsided on the 5th day of taking the Augmentin antibiotics.  Fortunately, the 5-day course of Augmentin managed to bring her fever down, else she would have to either continue the Augmentin for another 2 days or be prescribed with another antibiotics, just like what happened to Alycia about 2 years back when she also fell really ill, for the same reason.  My 2 older girls are very very prone to throat infections and our paed said that it’s hereditary coz both the hubs and I also have sensitive throats and are easily prone to throat infections and ulcers (esp. the hubs).

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High Fever In Toddlers, Sherilyn
January 9th, 2009
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Sherilyn Is Still Having High Fever

Despite being on antibiotics (Augmentin) twice a day since yesterday, Sherilyn’s fever is still not going down.  Her temperature has been hovering between 38 – 39.7 degrees Celsius since yesterday.   Today, I have given her 2 Volren suppositories.   Whenever the temp shoots up, Sher would tell me that she’s cold and she would shiver.   She is having the same symptoms as me, i.e. a stuffy nose and throat infection.  I hope the temperature would go down by tomorrow, failing which hubby said he will bring Sher to the paed’s clinic again.

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Fever in toddlers, Sherilyn
December 31st, 2008
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BRAT Diet For My Brat

I’ve heard about the BRAT diet for vomiting toddlers but I can’t remember what they are. When Sherilyn vomited 5 times several days ago after she overate some ramen and udon noodles at the Japanese restaurant the night before, I surfed the internet to check what the BRAT diet is.

Just before surfing the internet, I had put in a few slices of bread into my toaster to make toasted bread (homemade organic wholewheat bread with walnuts and cranberries). I was really engrossed reading the BRAT diet, which consists of bananas, rice, applesauce and toast. Suddenly I remembered my toast when I read the word ‘TOAST’. O_o, I quickly ran to the kitchen to turn off the toaster and some of my toasts were partially burnt!


I had to scrape off the burnt sides from my toast. Luckily not all my toasts were burnt and Sher and I could still eat them.

Sherilyn who vomited 5 times lay like a dead dog on the couch.  She was so weak that she dozed off on the couch after her lunch which consisted of toasts and Ribena.

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Sherilyn, Vomitting In Toddlers
December 29th, 2008
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Sherilyn’s Turn Of Over-eating

Last night, Daddy brought Alycia and Sherilyn to the Japanese restaurant at our condo for dinner.  I stayed home with Baby C as she was super cranky yesterday due to another UTI attack.  They had dinner at around 9pm.   According to daddy, Sherilyn stuffed herself full with lots of udon and ramen.  This brat of mine is a noodles lover and can really wallop oodles of plain noodles at any time, without realizing her little tummy’s limit.  After stuffing herself full with noodles, she gulped down half a tumbler of plain water.  When she got home, she requested for milk. 

The next morning, she woke up and cried.  I sensed something amiss coz she would normally wake up feeling refreshed and happy.  After drinking a bottle of 7 ounces milk which my maid fixed for her, she threw up when my maid was brushing her teeth.  After throwing up, she went back to bed and slept for another hour.  When she got up, I gave her some water but she threw up again.  After she had rested for about an hour, I gave her a piece of wholewheat crackers.  She took a few bites and minutes later, she puked again.  An hour later, I gave a few sips of water.  Minutes later, she ran to me and hugged me (which was quite unlike of her to do that).  The next thing I knew, she ran to the bathroom sink, climbed up the stool and puked again.  My poor baby puked about 4 times in the morning.

When I reheated some Unagi (Japanese grilled eel) with rice for Alycia for lunch, Sherilyn demanded to have rice too.  I didn’t want to give her any food but she kicked up a fuss and I gave in to her demand.  I gave her 2 teaspoons of plain rice with some Terriyaki sauce and she was all smiles again.  When I fixed myself some homemade toasts, Sherilyn also requested for some and demanded to have granny’s homemade peanut butter on her toasts.  I was reluctant to give her peanut butter but I know this brat would never leave me alone if her request wasn’t met, so I gave her a small dollop of peanut butter and this brat was satisfied.  When Alycia ransacked the fridge after lunch to look for desserts and took out some organic crackers to munch on, Sherilyn also wanted some crackers.  I gave in to her request since salty crackers are supposed to be good for people who are nauseated. I was really worried that she would puke but thank God she didn’t. 

After lunch, Sherilyn dozed off on the couch.  When she woke up, I gave her a glass of Ribena which she took small sips and finished the glass of Ribena over 2 hours. 

Later in the evening, daddy brought Alycia and Sherilyn shopping at Ikea.  Sherilyn had vermicelli soup.  I hope her tummy will be able to tolerate and hold down the food, without anymore vomiting.

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Sherilyn, Vomitting In Toddlers
December 4th, 2008
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Sherilyn Has An Ulcer

in her inner, upper lip for several days and I only found out 2 days ago when we were at KFC having lunch, sei moh!  Had I known that she has an ulcer, no way was I going to bring her to eat KFC, one of the heatiest food. 

Anyway, when we were at KFC, Sherilyn told me again that her upper lip was pain pain. She had been telling my mil and me for the past 3 days or so that her mouth was pain pain but we brushed her aside, thinking that it was just an excuse as she didn’t want to eat her dinner. When it comes to avoiding her meals, she can come up with lots of excuses. She kept pointing to the upper lip, i.e. the part below her nostrils. Since I didn’t see anything red, I thought she had wanted my attention. But I was so wrong. When I turned her lip upward to see the inner part, I saw a medium sized ulcer on the lip.  For a moment, I felt so bad… felt like a terrible mum for brushing her aside and for not taking her seriously when she told me that her mouth hurt.  I quickly asked her to stop eating the nuggets and to eat only the mashed potatoes.  Anyway, she didn’t have appetite to eat much food. 

After lunch, we brought her to see the doctor.  The doctor said that the ulcer was caused by some fungal / yeast infection and prescribed her with Mycostatin Oral Suspension. 

Sherilyn is to hold the Mycostatin syrup in each side of her mouth (1.5ml for each side) for 30 seconds before swallowing it.  Initially, I had a tough time coaxing her to retain the syrup in her mouth and she almost puked.  After a few times, she got used to the cherry flavor taste and all of us had fun counting from 1-30 each time she held the syrup in her mouth before swallowing it and I rewarded her with some Haegan Dazs ice cream.

Sherilyn getting a check from the doctor.

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Mouth Ulcer, Sherilyn
October 5th, 2008
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My Little Brat’s Naughty-Looking Legs

Do you not agree with me that most naughty or rather mischievous kids have their legs and hands covered with scars and bruises? Sher’s legs are covered with mozzie bite marks (though our house is netted), fall marks and blue black marks. Her forehead has a scar from a fall. She fell and cracked her forehead on Valentine’s Day this year but thank God, no sutures were required. Her left thumb was once squashed by a steel door in the kitchen and the bone chipped. Isn’t she a quintessential of a ‘kwai kar’ or rascal?


She got the blue black mark after her trip to MegaKidz on Thursday. She climbed to the peak of the equipment and cried up there and careless daddy was not around! Someone’s kakak brought her down.   Alycia was my whistle blower.  She always reports to me what she and her sister did outside.  Next time, I will make sure daddy watches the 2 gals closely or ask our maid to follow them to MegaKidz.


But Sher can really melt your heart with her wittiness. She is also very sarcastic and can outwit everyone with her words all the time.

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Sherilyn
September 2nd, 2008
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Sherilyn’s Swollen Lymph Nodes

continuation from here. 

After more than 3 months, the lump can still be felt on Sherilyn’s right neck. Though it had shrunk in size considerably but the fact that it’s still there made me uneasy. So upon the recommendation of our paed, we brought Sherilyn to Pantai Cheras Medical Centre to have an ultrasound scan of her neck. The radiologist explained that the lump was only an enlarged lymph node and said that it’s very common in kids, especially after an infection or flu. It’s not a lump or a cyst. So that gave me some relief but I still have to monitor the size of the lymph node.

Sherilyn was so tensed as she lay on the bed in the cold air-cond room.

When the radiologist put the cold gel on her neck, she cried and struggled, so daddy had to hug her and carry her throughout the scan.

For many months ever since the day I discovered the swollen lymph nodes on Sherilyn’s neck, the first thing that I did when Sherilyn woke up was to touch her neck to see if the lymph nodes had shrunk in size.   I read that in some people, those lymph nodes would take many months to subside.  It’s been more than a year now and those lymph nodes are no longer felt on Sherilyn’s neck. Phew, thank God!

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