Category Archive: Urinary Tract Infection

Ever since Baby C developed a phobia of eating antibiotics after her recent hospitalization for her 3rd attack of UTI, she will scream, struggle and bawl big time till she puked almost every time she’s fed with her daily antibiotics. I’ve tried everything to lessen her phobia by giving her biscuits, baby carrots, yoghurt and last week, I got her some

Haegan Dazs ice cream and Calci Yum,

Heinz yoghurt and strawberry dessert and Heinz pear juice.

The outcome?  She rejected almost everything except the pear juice, which is quite tasteless and is sugar free.

In the end, I used the Heinz yoghurt and strawberry as bread spread for my 2 older gals, which they liked. 

I must try and find a way to make Baby C’s daily antibiotics feeding less stressful and traumatic for her and for me.  I am really burnt out and I almost wanted to cry last night when she kept crying and coughing the meds out and splatter the meds all over my face, clothes, couch and floor.  This has been my daily battle for the past 6 months.  Everyday, I ask myself when this will come to an end.  Sigh…..

That’s the hole caused by the IV line on my poor baby’s hand.  The IV line was to have been removed on Wednesday morning but when the nurse tried to put the antibiotics drip through the line on Monday night, she noticed that my poor baby’s hand was swollen and the hole has enlarged, thus making the antibiotics fluid drip out from the hole. 

Gotta put Baby C back to sleep now. To be continued…..

Baby C and I were ‘discharged’ from the hospital today. We don’t have to go back for the antibiotics drips as the urine culture done on Sunday (results out today) showed that there is no more bacteria growth. I can only pray to God that there will be no more growth of bacteria ever, period. It really breaks everybody’s hearts to see what Baby C has to go through but this tough nut of mine is really resilient and strong willed.

Pictures taken yesterday. Baby C refused to be placed in the hostpital crib. The moment she’s placed on the crib, she will start wailing for she would assume that she will be poked and pricked. So hubby and I had to take turns carrying her throughout the drips.

Her IV line was removed prematurely last night. I shall blog about this when I have the time.

Baby C on daddy’s shoulders. She had cried till she fell asleep.

Baby C is admitted to Pantai Medical Centre for another UTI but we were allowed to take home leave. She has to be brought to the hospital for the antibiotics drips twice a day, at 10am and 10pm.

These pix were taken yesterday morning. She was fast asleep during the drips and didn’t cry…. but things weren’t that smooth sailing during the evening drips as the IV line got jammed up. The needle was hooked to her skin and the nurses spent almost half an hour trying to fix it…. with her bawling and screaming away in pain till she puked. Luckily I brought along a small basin in my bag and she didn’t puke on her clothes or on the bed.

The left bottle contains glucose and the one of the right is the antibiotics.

Baby C has another UTI.  This time there’s Proteus bacteria in the urine.   Hubby and I spent the whole afternoon at Pantai Medical Center to get her admitted, but as usual, we were allowed to take home leave.  The same torturous procedures took place where the doctor had to find her vein to set an IV line.  Thankfully it was a success this time as Baby C has lost her chubbiness and thus, it was easier for the doctor to see a vein.  This time, I wasn’t allowed to be in the Procedures Room and all I could do was to wait outside, hearing her wail and praying hard that God will remove all her pain.

She was given a bottle of antibiotics through the IV line on her hand, which lasted several minutes.  The antibiotics has to be injected twice a day – 10am and 10pm for 5 days. 

The bacteria Proteus is resistant to most antibiotics that’s considered safe, so our 2 doctors had a hard time trying to find an alternative antibiotics for Baby C.  Proteus is sensitive to 3 antibiotics but these antibiotics have adverse side effects, if given on a long term basis.  One of the side effects is that it may hinder bone growth. 

I really wonder why Baby C is so prone to getting UTIs despite being on daily antibiotics and despite me trying my level best to keep her diaper area clean and doing everything that the doctor had advised me to do.  Sigh…..

Baby C’s pee has not been smelling foul anymore for the past 3 days.  After so many foul smelling pee incidences, I can now see the trend quite clearly.  The foul smelling pee goes hand in hand with diarrhea / loose bowel movement.   Each time she purges more than 3 times a day for several days, her diaper area would turn red and sore.  Next comes the foul smelling pee.  As soon as the diarrhea is under control and the diaper area not sore anymore, her pee would also not smell foul anymore.  

I think what could have caused her to have frequent loose bowel was the cranberry juice that I had been feeding her.  I’ve since stopped feeding her with cranberry juice and have only been giving her freshly grated apple juice, grape juice and pear juice.   Cranberry juice is well known for preventing UTI but looks like it could be the culprit to Baby C having frequent UTIs coz her little tummy just can’t stomach the sour cranberry juice, thus causing her the diarrhea (I am just assuming). Sigh…. case of the devil and the deep blue sea…..  just praying hard that no more bacteria, WBC and RBC will be detected in her pee ever again, period.

Anyway, will be bringing Baby C’s pee to the hospital for another culture test tomorrow.

Baby C was purging for the past 2 days and yesterday, my heart sank when I smelled her soiled diaper at around noon.  It smelled foul a little.  So for the rest of yesterday, I kept feeding her with plain water, barley water and my milkie in the hope that she would pee more coz our doctors told us that the bad bacteria could be flushed out through pee.  I also washed her bum each time I changed her diaper.  I was like a cuckoo mummy with OCD wiping all her toys, her 2 cribs and playpen with diluted Dettol (suggested by Mott) a few times in a day.   I was just obsessed with washing her bum, changing her diaper and smelling her soiled diaper.  I told my mil and hubby about the foul smelling pee and my mil asked me if I was just imagining the foul smell but I told her I wasn’t.  I trust my senses and my instinct.   Today the pee doesn’t smell foul anymore.  I will just have to continue smelling the soiled diapers.  Hopefully Baby C’s body will be strong enough to fight off the bad bacteria this time and win the battle.

continuation from here. 

I called our pediatric nephrologist this morning.  The urine culture test shows that there is very scanty growth of bacteria in the urine.  Our dr. said that the amount is so insignificant that it is not considered a UTI.   That’s why the initial urine FEME test done on Monday showed that there was no bacteria and no WBC (white blood cells) in the urine.  Only 2 RBC (red blood cells) were detected.

Today will be the last day I need to feed her antibiotics twice a day.  Tomorrow onwards she only needs to be fed antibiotics once a day, 2.5ml a day.   So am I glad or sad?  I am glad that it is not a full blown UTI but sad that there is still some bacteria lingering in her urinary tract.  Looks like I will have to continue being trapped in my nightmare, continue to smell her soiled diapers everyday, continue to check her urine several times a week and make endless trips to the hospital until only God knows when they will all come to an end.  Sigh….. really sien and I am really, really mentally and physically frazzled 🙁