Poor Matthew. He has been sick since Wednesday night. It started with a fever of 38.4degC. We gave him a dose of Panadol drop, but it did not go away in the morning.

Then we brought him to see his pediatrician Dr Dorothy Ong. He was diagnosed to be having sore throat, fever and blocked nose. Dr Ong saw some rash on him and warned me that he might have caught the measles. She confirmed that when I called her in the afternoon. She said the most tell-tale signs would be the rash and red eyes. She told me to follow up with her on Saturday.

Friday and Saturday - Matthew seems to be feeling ok. Playing and screaming! More rash. No fever, which was a good sign.

Dr Ong confirmed yesterday that Matthew is down with false measles, i.e. he gets all the symptoms of measles, except red eyes. At least it would not be as serious as the real McCoy. According to my colleague Mitch, whose little girl also came down with it some time back, it would take almost two weeks for all the rash to clear. *sigh*

I think his sore throat got worse today. Started coughing. Super cranky and whinny. No appetite. Did not even finish his milk... poor thing. He's sleeping now. Got to wake him up at 1am to give another dose of cough syrup and panadol drop (to relieve the pain from his sore throat).

The first photo was taken on Friday, during his nap. see that the spots were still pretty small. The second photo was taken yesterday, bigger spots. Today's photo showed more and bigger spots. *sigh*