Very sick little boy

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Hi,

My 4 y.o. son is very sick, and I'm very scared.

It started in mid-August with a cold, runny nose and coughing. It cleared

up, but that week we had a follow-up with his ENT (he's had chronic ear

infections since he was 18 months), and he had fluid in his right ear (the

tube in that ear had very recently fallen out). Since he was scheduled for

surgery on another part of his body, we decided he should get a new set of

ear tubes at the same time. Surgery was on 9/1 and went EXTREMELY well. He

was not sick going into surgery. Both surgeons said swimming was fine, and

it was hot and my twins just learned to swim, so we went to our neighborhood

pool two days after surgery. We put wax in my son's ears, but it did fall

out during his swim, so we dried his ears and put " the drops " in and left

the pool.

Five days after surgery, his left ear started oozing. The next day the other

ear started oozing. He was fussy, but still went to school and did his

afternoon sessions. We used Floxin drops in his ears, but nothing else. A

week later, it was getting worse, so the ENT cultured his ears and he had

pseudomonas and the ENT px'd Omnicef (high dose for 5 days) and Ceprodex.

His ears cleared up. One afternoon that week, he had a fever, then vomited

~midnight that night. I kept him home from school the next day, but he

seemed perfectly fine.

Seven days after finishing the Omnicef, he vomited once, then had several

bouts of diarrhea, which was this past Monday. He is still having diarrhea

at least once/day since. He is very lethargic (napping 3 hours each

afternoon, plus asleep from 7-7). Very small appetite. We did see Dr. G this

week and his bloodwork all came back normal. He is drinking liquids. He has

not been to school all this week. He is not himself, very quiet, pale,

whimpering at times. No fever at all this week, but he feels hot when I hold

him. He was already thin, but he looks really thin now. He seems really

vacant, too.

Any ideas??? What might be going on and how I can help him?

Thanks,

Kristy