Litle Red spots

Had a somewhat busy week. As a mom, i seem to learn lessons every week. This week, I learn never to under-estimate the cleanliness of our home.

I live in a 3-room HDB and with my MIL. My MIL keep herself contended with cleaning the house every few days with dry and wet wipes, whereas I will try to top it off by vacuuming the flat once a week if not bi-weekly. Sometimes when I'm really tired or we had too many parties to attend, it becomes once a month. Oops, I know.

The job of cleaning up the toilet basically lies on my shoulders, but Thank God for Magiclean Mold Killer. With this Magic solution. I usually get to clean up the entire toilet without breaking a sweat. Just spray generously, ReaLLy Generously at all the evident mold, the same way you kill those zombies in Resident Evil. 10 minutes later, Ta-Da! spick and span toilet walls and floors.

Once in a while, I would dust the shelves and wipe the TV console and furniture. Our lack of discipline may have resulted in Baby Z breaking out in red rashes all over his face, body, hands & legs on New Year Eve. We had a shock, thinking it could have been Hand Foot Mouth. As it was New Year Eve, we could only monitor him over 2 days before rushing to our private paediatrician Dr Darryl at Kinderclinic. Thankfully it wasn't any serious food allergy which had to be admitted to hospital. Baby Z show no signs that he was ill, as he play as hard as usual, no itchy signs, milk feeding as usual. Just seems to get sweaty pretty often.

Turns out, it is a case of skin allergy that could have resulted from Dust, House mites and others. It was awfully embarrassing, when he asked if our place was really dusty. We were advised to change his shower gel to Cetaphil($21) and his moisturizer to Physiogel ($21)

Hubby and I gotten really disappointed. Cause we went to purchase 2 Sharp Air Purifier 1 week ago when Zyan had his cough, Doctor confirmed that Baby Z had sinus, and the back-drip causes the cough. Doctor recommended us to buy an Air purifier to improve on Baby Z sinus. So to still have a skin allergy due to dust AFTER we install 2 Air purifier, we are confused. Thus we went down to Clementi Polyclinic and ask for a referral letter to NUH for a skin allergy test. We deduce it is gonna be too costly to go back to our private PD for the same test. But We are determine to find out the root cause. Our appointment is next month, so I guess in the meanwhile we can only try to take precaution as much as possible.
We have ever since, change his mattress cover, placed order for a new mattress, cause we are very sure that after 1 year of usage, all that 'clean' urine should have cause bacteria to build-up to a considerable amount. My MIL often implies that baby's urine are 'CLEAN' but I guess with the rashes, she can't argue any further.

We clean-up his toys and play yard and donated all his good soft toys away. The not so good ones were thrown away. We even hired a part-time home cleaner.

We are definitely taught a lesson. Cleanliness should never be taken for granted.