Blessedmum - I hope everything is ok and you just have the flu.
My hubby got diagnosed with whooping cough 2 weeks ago, via Blood Test, and as a precaution (even though I wasn't at the doctors with hubby that day) the doctor prescribed both me and our DS the Erythromycin(sp?) antibiotic as both me and DS had the flu, had been coughing for at least 2 weeks and DS's coughs had started to sound a bit like the bark that whooping cough causes.
We did a bit of research on it as we weren't sure if it could affect our bub and cause problems for it in the second trimester.
This years flu that has been going around has been particularly bad - I ended up in emergency on a drip 2 days before we found out hubby had whooping cough with dehydration because I hadn't been able to keep anything down that day and a fever of 38.7 (we found out in our research that vomiting caused by the coughing can be a symptom, as well as a fever for 24-72 hours, but the symptoms are the same for a particularly bad bout of the flu as well as many other virus's).
They would be doing everything they can to rush the results of your tests so that they can know whether you have it or not, as you would have to start antibiotics ASAP if you do, and bub would need to go on antibiotics as soon as he/she is born and would need to be monitored constantly at the hospy until they knew for sure that everything would be ok.
Thanks Jenna,
I had a bloodtest and nasal swab first thing this morning and will hopefully get the results this afternoon. Thanks for the information. I am hoping it is just the flu. But yeah, my first thoughts are what about my baby when she is born and like you said, she will have close monitoring if I do have whooping cough. The hospital also said it would be good to know as they would have to keep me seperate from others.
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