Eye Infection?!

Well this week wasn’t much fun…  Elias managed to get an eye infection.  It was officially pre-orbital cellulitis.  He gets very bad reactions to mosquitoes and one bit him close to his eye.  That lead to an infection which made his lower eyelid swell shut.  So he went to the Dr’s once, then the eye Dr’s twice.  It was serious enough that if the swelling hadn’t gone down with the first antibiotic he would have had to have gone to the hospital for intervenes antibiotics…  He seemed OK and was running around as he usually did, but this of course made for 2 stressed out parents (and grandparents as well).  It also meant (and still means actually) antibiotics 2 times a day which is a TON of fun (he’s learn how to spit it out regardless of how far down his throat you stuff the syringe).

He was Fine by Friday though so we’ve had a great weekend.  Saturday we went to the park and went out for ice cream where Elias had his own cone!  Sunday Dad and I sailed sluff around Jamestown and had a great time hitting 14.7kt max and 13.4kt max 10 second average.  We had a blast and it was the perfect sailing day for the little boat blowing anywhere from 10 to probably 20 in the puffs.  Today was Andy and Debbie’s anniversary and they invited the whole family over for a nice BBQ on their back deck.

2 thoughts on “Eye Infection?!

  1. Omigosh we are going through this for the second time this month!..Did you ever get an answer as to why our children are getting pre-orbital cellulitus from bug bites?…We assume it is mosquitos?..Our daughter Adelina,2 this past June, has had two rounds of this happening..both different eyes each time…after 3 hrs of being bit(which really you couldn’t see anything so i am guessing at time frame)it would start to swell like crazy….today she has had 4 doses of benydryl and the swelling seems to be the same if not worse…she also has had 2 does of antibiotics…did they have you give both to your son as well?…

    • We know in Elias’ case it was a mosquito bite for sure. Not sure on the benydryl, but I’m pretty sure we did that too, then antibiotics for sure and SEVERAL trips to the doctors. NOT FUN, but the antibiotics worked thankfully. It’s a bummer because we’re more hesitant to go outside now unless it’s really nice/sunny/dry/daytime. :/

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