Elly had fever for the past 2 days and she vomitted yesterday morning. Perhaps was due to her bleeding gums, there was blood in her vomit. To be safe, we sent her to HUKM for check-up. The doctor on call was contemplating whether to admit her or not. After further checks and there were also some rashes on her face and hands, she decided to admit Elly.
The blood test was normal, with normal counts of haemoglobin, white blood cells and platelet. However, her APTT count was high. I was told it is the tendency to blood. So does that explain why Elly has bleeding gums? (donno yet..)
At the children ward, Elly was given Bed11, 4A. It is spacious as it catered for a three-fold chair which can be extended to a bed at night for parent, a children bed, 1 chair and 1 cabinet. As bubble as she was, she refused to rest on the bed, insisted to sit on the 3-fold chair and asked me to rest on the bed instead.
At about 5pm, the doctor on call, Dr Juanita came for rounds. After some interviews and checking on her body and her gums, she gave green light that Elly can be discharged, only with an additional tube of blood for further test. phew.. what a relief!
Will be coming back to the paed clinic and dental clinic on next Tuesday for further checks. Diagnosis given for the referal was gingivitis?? Hope so... and of course not some other illness.
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