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Sick Baby Questions... Answered

Sick baby questions are very common among parents. The first cold, fever, stomach virus... And then it just continues.

Below you'll find all the sick baby questions answered here at Easy Baby Life's Help Line. As you will see, you are not the only one looking for advice on how to handle your little sick baby.

By browsing the questions and answers below, you'll find tips from our mom experts here as well as from many other parents contributing.

Questions include what to do when your baby has a cold, is running a fever or seems to have a stomach bug. You'll find babies with eye infections, mucus, seizures, a bad cough and many more issues.

Sometimes it is difficult to know if a baby really is ill or not. Here are some signs that your baby is sick. This is not a complete list, and since you know your child the best, following your intuition regarding changes in your baby's health is important.

Some signs that your infant is ill

  • Fever equal to or greater than 100.4F (38 C) by rectum. If your baby is less than 6 weeks old with a fever of 100.4F (38 C) or higher, call the doctor immediately.
  • Vomiting (not just spitting up) more than one feeding in a day and your baby doesn't usually do this (for example from acid reflux).
  • Diarrhea or loose watery stools that are more frequent than usual.
  • Refusal to eat for more than one feeding, gets unusually tired while suckling or falling asleep in the middle of successive feedings.
  • Lethargy or listlessness, i.e. sudden and prolonged decrease in activity level.
  • Unusual skin rash.
  • Fast breathing (over 70 times per minute) or difficulty breathing. Fast breathing can mean a high fever so check your baby's temperature.
  • Convulsions.
  • Persistent irritability.

If you are in a hurry, simply use the search box below to find the questions dealing with your baby's particular problems. OR, find answers to questions you didn't even know that you had by simply browsing all the Q&As below.

Either way, I hope you will find help around here, because that is what we are here for.

You can ask questions or offer your help by posting comments at each question below, but if you don't find your answer, you'll have to use the forum in our new Community. Sign up here for free, and we are trying our best to give your questions full attention there.

To see what other types of questions we have answered over the years, visit the Baby Help line main page.

Hope you'll find the help you need!



Sick Baby Questions Asked - And Answered

Click below to read answers and comments to all sick baby questions. And why not help another mom in need while surfing around... ;-)

Lactose Intolerant or Milk Allergy   I am not sure if my 3 month old is lactrose intolerant or has milk allergy. All I know is for the first month and a half I breastfed and supplimented ...

4 Year Old Passes Out When Upset  My son is 4 years old, when he gets hurt or angry he starts to cry but nothing comes out, his eyes roll in the back of his head and he starts to have seizures,...

8 Month Old Baby Coughs Til She Throws Up!  In the beginning of the week she was running a fever, we gave her Tylenol, brought it down and she seemed to be feeling better. She was still congested ...

1 Year Old Baby Shakes Eyebrows Up And Down  My baby just completed 1 year and after few days I noticed some unusual activities; she shakes her eyebrows up and down for 2 to 3 seconds and she does ...

Baby With Rash And Fever  My 1 year old little girl has little red spots on her vagina and her bum and vagina are a little sore. Also she has a temperature tonight of 38.5. What ...

Cold, Ear Infection, Throwing up , Itchy eyes  My son had gotten over a cold, or so I thought. He seemed better but was pulling at his ears, so I took him to the doc and he had a small ear infection....

Baby Nose Bleeds  My 11 month baby gets a very stuffy nose at night and I have the vaporizer. But he sometimes wakes up at night and I try everything to find out why he'...

Baby's Eye Rolling  Hey, my baby amari is nearly 6 months old and for as long as i can remember he rolled his eyes up and gasps for breathe . It's really scary.

I've ...

Toddler Passing Out  My daughter (20-months) for the first time 6 days ago cried to the point where she started to faint. She was knocked over backwards and cried so hard she ...

3 Month Old Baby Throwing Up Blood  3 month old baby is throwing up blood, what is that??

Sick Baby With Fused Labia  My five month old little girl has a fused labia , not from birth but because of adhesion caused by diaper rash . I found out at three months but it keeps ...

White Stuff In Baby's Mouth  My baby is 10 months and is teething. She is also coming up with her third tooth but she has white cloudy stuff in her mouth . What can it be and how ...

Cramping Baby Daughter  My daughter is ten months old and for the last four months or so she has been clinching her legs up, holding her breath, and eventually crying .

The ...

Baby Passing Out  My son is 13 months old, and since he started walking 3 months ago, he of course has been clumsy and tripping and falling. But when he hits his head ...

Eye Infection Or What  My 10 month old start getting a mucus at first white coming from his eye. When he woke up he had a build up of yellow around his eye and as the day progresses ...

Baby Shaking Head  Why does my 5 month old son shake his head from side to side ?

I am worried that he is sick or that something is wrong with him. What can be wrong ...

Vomiting Yellow Mucus  What could be the possible cause for my 6 months old baby to be vomiting more than once within a few hours, clear to yellow mucus?

I am worried that ...

Think My 3 Week Baby Is Sick  My baby is almost 3 weeks old and she sounds congested. She's not coughing but when she cries it sounds like shes sick and I'm really worried and don'...

Yellow Mucus From 9 Month Old Girl's Vagina  I was cleaning and changing my nine month old daughter's diaper and noticed a thick yellow mucus discharge from her vagina . Is this normal? I only have ...

Is Something Seriously Wrong With My 11 Month Old Baby?  He had chicken pox 2 months ago which wasn't too bad. Two weeks later had the flu and recently diagnosed with Bronchiliis. He hasn't been to daycare since ...

Some More Advice - Baby Had Seizure  Thursday at 4:30 pm my 10 month old baby boy awoke from a 2 1/2 nap. When I picked him up he was extremely sluggish. He was acting as though he were on ...

4 Month Old Baby Arm Shaking  My wife and I have noticed that our 4 1/2 month old son's arms start to shake when he is attempting to grab something and can't get his grip on or when ...

Very Congested Baby   My baby boy just turned 7 months and is getting over a flu and cold , his nose sill stuffed and runny, but he's got chest congestion badly.. been t o ...

Baby Eye Waters  My baby's one eye waters all the time and it has a lot of gunk in it when she wakes up. Is this normal or is it due to some infection? What should I do ...

Redness In Corner Of Left Eye Of My Baby  My baby is eight and a half months old.

For the past one week, the corner of her left eye is red in color.

We went to the pead and he suggested ...

7 Month Old Baby Girl Is Sick Help!  My daughter had a fever 103 4 days ago, I gave her Tylenol and it brought her fever down. She has had Diarrhea for 4days and will not drink anything!

She ...

3 Month Old With Wheezing and Coughing  My 3 month old daughter started wheezing today.. been coughing for the past 2 days though. The wheezing isn't severe and she's a happy go lucky baby so ...

Temperature And Teething  My 7 month old baby had a temperature of up to 39 at one point last night coming down to 37. He has had up to two doses of calpol and this morning at ...

8 Month Old With Cough, Should I Be Worried?  My 8 month old baby has had the typical cold for about a week, runny nose and flemmy cough. He got better for about 2 days and now seems to have it again....

Sick Baby Not Eating 
My son is 4 months old and has been sick for the past 5 days. Today he didn't really drink any milk and when he did I could tell it was bothering his ...

2 Month Old, Pink Eye?  My daughter has been rubbing her left eye alot lately and now it waters and she gets clod/sleep in her eye all the time. Only that eye. She also has a ...

Fever And Feeding  What shall I feed a 1 year old baby when he is having cold cough and fever?

Flem In Her Lungs  My 8 month old has flem in her lungs and coughing. It sounds like she's in pain. I stopped giving her formula for a few days and took her to a doctor and ...

What Could Cause A Child To Pass Out?  My 1 yr old gets so angry she starts to hyperventilate, her eyes roll in the back of her head and she passes out.

Doctors say it is just anger, is ...

Too Much Tylenol To Baby  I know a mother who gives her 8 month old Tylenol every day, this is everyday for nearly 8 months of the child's life. Now she has started to give the ...

Yellow Mucus Coming Out Of Eye  My one month old son just woke up ready to eat, I got him out of his crib to feed him and noticed he had yellow mucus in his eye , could he be sick?...

My Daughter Is Sick And Won't Eat  My daughter is 3 1/2 months and she is sick quite bad. She now refuses to eat. She had her last bottle at half six pm last night.

I have tried to ...

My 13 Month Old Daughter Shakes Uncontrollably After Waking Up.  My 13 month old daughter shakes uncontrollably after waking up . It's not an all the time thing.

It started happening when she was about 7 months ...

Chronic Cough For Baby 
I have a 7 month old who has had a cough since 10/18/08 now. I had him to the Dr on 11/7/08 and we tried a course of Amoxicillin for 10 days but it ...

Reflux In 8 Week Old  My son is 8 weeks old and suffers from reflux. He wants to eat all day. He cries a lot and I know I am feeding him plenty. Sometimes 2oz every hr but ...

Physiological Jaundice  Hello doctor, it's almost 40 days for my little boy since he is born.

2 weeks ago doctor said that he is a little bit yellow and needs some treatment,...

Chesty Baby  My baby is 8 weeks. Ever since she has been born, she has had a heavy chest. It sounds like wheezing. I have been to the doctor but nothing has cleared ...

My Baby's Wind  My baby suffers really bad from trapped wind as well as reflux. We can wind him up to 2 hours at a time. He is in a lot of pain and discomfort.

Now ...

1 Month Old Baby Sick   My son is one month old only and had a bit of a runny noise and a cough. He has no fever and eats well. But I heard that newborn babies should not be ...

9 Month With Spontaneous Nose Bleeding And Diarrhea  After a nap yesterday my baby's nose was bleeding profusely .

The blood was thick and coming out like water running out of a faucet. She messed up ...

Winding And Pain  My baby is in serious pain when I wind him and he is making a like gasping noise at the back of his throat as well as cramping in pain he is also struggling ...

My Baby Is 7 Weeks Old With Cough  My son is 7 weeks old, he has a dry cough (meaning no mucous) and he sneezes as well but no runny nose just regular mucous in nose at times.

He doesn'...

4 Month Old Baby Suddenly Shaking   My baby slept when I was feeding her and suddenly she started shaking completly.
I make her awake and she was normal.
I am scared, what this could be?...

Irritable 7 Month Old  My daugther woke up Saturday with a fever, the told me to give her tylenol or motrin to break the fever. She slept and ate fine all day Saturday. Sunday ...

Daughter Gasps Sometimes When Laid Down  My baby has a problem that has happened a few times and we can not find out what it is. On rare occasions when she is laid down for a diaper change, she ...

My Daughter Is 3 Months And About To Have A Cold  My daughter is 3 months old and she's coughing, having difficulties drinking her milk. Her mom is having a cold. I believe my daughter is also about ...



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