False Alarm

Not trusting the urgent care doctors and needing a doctor’s note before we could take him back to daycare, we decided to do a follow up with our pediatrician. The good news is that Troy has been doing better the last two days, but we took him in anyways.

Good thing we did, because it confirmed my suspicions. He was misdiagnosed at urgent care. When I told the pediatrician that Troy had hand, foot, and mouth with no sores on his hands, feet, or mouth, he laughed and asked, “How is that possible?” My thoughts exactly. He checked him again for it and confirmed it was not that. He suspected it could be strep throat, so he ran a test for that. Initial results came back negative, so he sent it to a lab for further testing. In the end, he believes it to be a viral infection that will eventually go away.