He recovered liao lor :) He's now 16mths, he got the bacteria at 4mth old....

This is the post from his mum's blog on that hospitalization. It's so xin-tong to see a 4 mth old baby hooked up to the drip....
ethanzlau.blogspot.com/2009/07/sickly-e.html

Tracy, really thanks for the info. We never thought of that. Then I must be very cautious in handling those library books. Hope the baby is fully recover now!

hey..you can keep the Young Parents magazines :)

Saw that you are borrowing children's books from the library. Just wanna let you know about mike's nephew hospitalization saga, which may be helpful to you :)

His nephew caught some nasty bacteria and was warded for a week. After several rounds of tests, the doctor was unable to find out what is the bacteria. Later, muitin asked me if mike's nephew has contact with library books, then we realised...oh shit! he did touched the library books..and you know lah..babies like to stick their fingers into their mouth...and their immune system is low...

He's been tested for the usual bacteria that babies will get from home or from child care..all negative...so we are quite certain that he could have caught those nasty bacteria from the library books coz there's no way for the doctors to test for those bacteria on library books that could have been sneezed at/thrown on the floor/touched by sick babies.....

so..rule of thumb is...anything that is publicly used - gotta disinfect first or dun let young babies touch :)