Friday, March 1, 2013

High fever that wouldn't go away

Approximately one and a half months ago, Brendan had to missed school for 3 days as he had extremely high fever at 39.9 degrees. We took him to see the dr who said that he didn't require any antibiotics and the fever should subside after a few days. We were given paracetamol which unfortunately didn't help very much.

The fever did go down for just a little while but would go up quickly again especially at night. Brendan was extremely weak and his body was extremely hot. He didn't have an appetite for days. He couldn't even finish a cup of water. I had to keep reminding him to drink sips and sips of water every now and then.

I wanted to try the egg white and flour rub down but decided to send him to see a lady who specialised in 猪毛   (“zhu mao tan” or also known as Chinese typhoid fever or demam kepialu in malay) in Seri Kembangan on the 4th day, upon recommendation by a friend.

She did a quick check on Brendan and asked him to lie down while she rub a watery mixture in red on his chest. Within seconds, there were tiny little hair on his chest. She proceeded to pass us a few packets of some powdery medicine to be taken every 4 hours for the next 2 days plus a packet of clear water. It was all done in a jiffy. There were no description of the herbs or the water which I later found out to be some sort of cooling water.  She didn't even confirmed it to be 猪毛 丹. So, to this date, I'm still not sure whether it was 猪毛 丹 or "atapchee" fever.

This traditional chinese remedy believes that the appearance of the harsh looking hair on the body is the relieving of body heat. If not treated, it can lead to death.




She passed us a small piece of paper which states "Diet: rice, egg, apple, sweet potato, pork, chicken, fish. No Bath for 2 days. Diet for 4 days". I thought that was the diet Brendan was supposed to be taking until my friend who recommended me this lady said that those are the food to avoid.

His fever did subsided 2 days after that lady's treatment. It was a big scare for us as his fever was so high and he couldn't even walk.

Over the CNY holidays, I had the privilege to consult a very experienced sifu in treatin猪毛 丹, shingles, snakebites and centipede bites. He taught us how to identify whether it is  猪毛 丹and how to treat it.

Here's the video taken. Hopefully this helps anyone who is looking for any sort of info on this. Kindly excuse our bad Chinese in the video.



Contact of Sifu Tan :

Tan Eng Huat
013-7046165 (updated : 011-1077 6165)
21, Jalan Muhibbah, 
Taman Kerjasama, 
86000 Kluang, Johor.
              



10 comments:

chinnee said...

fever is most scary because we are so afraid it might damage their lil brain. When fever happens, its always 39 degree too for my kids. so worrying :(

Blackswan said...

Thks for sharing your experience with us! That's so scary especially with high fever in kids. Glad all turned out well.

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Anonymous said...

Hav been visiting that place at Seri Kembangan since I was a kid and am in my early 30s now. That place was a famous zhu mao dan treatment place. When those "thick hairs" came out after rubbing those watery red liquid, that proves that it is zhu mao dan. Nothing will come out if u do the same on a person without zhu mao dan, experienced that before when my parents insisted that I hav zhu mao dan but that treatment was done by d father of that lady who has passed away some years ago. They use d method of "da màk" (checking pulse) to determine whether one has zhu mao dan or not. Great for sharing that interview with Sifu Tan using green peas. There is also another method that my aunt taught my mom bout using chicken feather or something but it is a very troublesome kampung method.

Babysmooches said...

You're most welcome. The green peas method was rather interesting to know. I've heard about using chicken egg and chicken feathers too.
I hope this beliefs will continue for generations to come.

Anonymous said...

hi,

can you share the location of the sifu in seri kembangan or the contact details ?

thanks :)

Babysmooches said...

The Contact is Seri Kembangan is as follows :

Ms Ng / Mr Ng
No. 563, Jalan SK 1/2, 43300 Seri Kembangan.
Tel : 03-89489497
Opening hours : 10am-1pm, 6pm-9pm.

Unknown said...

There is another store located in Taman Pertama, Cheras.
Address is:
No 44, Jalan Selangat,
Taman Pertama,
56100 Kuala Lumpur.

I didn't get their telephone number though. They open at 11am and close at 8pm.

Babysmooches said...

Thank you for the info Darryl Foong.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the info, Daryl & Babysmooches

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