Last night Jasmine was put on 48 hours continuous dialysis with antibiotics in the dialysate to tackle a suspected infection. Her white cell count had reached 1000 when it should normally be less than 100. It doesn’t seem to be peritonitis as she doesn’t have the other symptoms such as a high blood temperature, abdominal pains, vomiting. Although, she was vomiting the other day, but that might have been due to the increased amounts of protein in her feed. Hopefully, with the dialysis the infection will clear up.The nurses took another sample from Jasmine’s peritonium last night and got it tested to see if she had had an allergic reaction to the dialysis. Thankfully this test came back negative. So, the increased white cell count could just be a reaction to the lipids and resulting chyle. It is difficult to know for certain because chyle in the peritonium is such a rare thing.
Jasmine seemed better in herself today but was struggling with her feeds and pulling faces and sometimes spitting it out. Poor thing will be on this feed for a month yet, so hopefully she will get used to it. I had to put some of her feed through her NG tube using a gravity tube. Later, she was put on continuous feed for her 7pm feed as she was still sleepy and didn’t want any of it.
Neil cleaned the PD catheter exit site again today and said it was much easier than the first time. He touched the wall when trying to turn the tap off with his elbow and had to redo his threes minute handwash. Six minutes is a long time when you are holding down a naked wiggling baby whilst watching your husband wash his hands.
Being a popular girl, Jasmine received, through the post, a new t-shirt (Thanks Trish), dummies, socks, two outfits, and a pair of Middlesbrough FC slippers (Thanks Barbara and Lee, and for the shortbread – my favourite). So, Jasmine is all set for her next football match. She may be needing her dummies as the Boro have some tough fixtures.
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