Toddler with a bad breath

Over the last few days Caelyn had a blocked nose and was breathing through her mouth. Night time and daytime it was all the same and she'd be snoring in her sleep. She had just recovered from her cold and I was surprised that she seemed to be having a recurrence. Then yesterday she started having really bad breath and also a fever. I still thought she was probably having a cold and the bad breath is due to her breathing through her mouth. But last night I decided to google it and see what came up, I was actually looking for a solution on how to get rid of the bad breath, but what my search turned up instead was that having bad breath and the nasal congestion is actually one of the symptoms to a Sinus Infection and that she should be brought to a doctor as soon as possible as it would need treating with antibiotics.

So if we went to the doc first thing this morning. Sure enough the doc confirmed that it was a sinus infection and she needs to be on antibiotics for a week. The antibiotics will help to clear up the nose and drain the fluids away thus alleviating the pressure around her eyes (I had noticed her 'eyebags' which was actually fluid from the sinus) and best of all her bad breath will be gone too. If not treated could lead to a throat infection from breathing through the mouth and also and ear infection.

So there goes our plans for the long weekend next week...wat a bummer