Ek Khwab

This had to be the most low moments of my life, nothing is working on Geet’s infection and now she has some group of blisters in the entire hand.

We are not referred to Pediatric Dermatologist, I believe there is one in Bangalore ( may be Iam wrong ) The doctor did all the arrangement of calling the Pediatric Dermatologist, explaining the situation and most importantly explaining why this has to be treated as an emergency.

His name is Dr. Ravi Hiremagalur, and he visits Malathi Manipal & Main Manipal Hospital. We took an appointment with him and with visited him the next day.

He looked at it in detail and said it looked like Herpes Zoster Simplex ( even we made strange faces when heard ), he explained that these satellite like blisters, grouping and alignment all points towards this, but this is not likely to be found in kids, and if found only after the age of 2.

He said that this was a very rare case and even rarer that this Zoster Simplex started in the nail bed and now spread all across.

He took the samples of her skin and also collected the substance in couple of her blisters and gave for some reports, he told that we can wait for about an hour, while he will get the tests done immediately.

He was still confused as he went on saying that he has never come across this infection in infants nor has he heard, may be extremely rare, he repeatedly asked if either of us had chicken pox recently, but we never had chicken pox.

He again spoke to my Doctor in Wockhardt and explained the diagnosis, he gave us some tables (200mg) and told to grind them and mix it with milk and feed the baby in proportions as explained by him. Also one lotion which has to be applied after we clean the blisters with salt & luke warm water.

He assured that if the diagnosis was right, it should start showing signs of recovery within 48 hrs. and assured that it will sorted out as soon as possible and the Surgery may happen as scheduled.

We were relived , atleast we now knew what this infection was, but the such rare cases happening repeatedly to Geet was a little surprising, Her Bilateral Cleft Lip & Palate, Then her Tooth at 40 days and now this…

It was a freak infection, coz this infection could hamper her mail Cleft Lip Surgery, like Sachin getting Hitwicket after scoring 99 ( ahh men & cricket )