teething or illness??

Well there are many people that believe that their child is just teething when in fact the child could have an illness. Soo since my daughter has been acting a little fussy, kind of hacky, and her sleep pattern is totally different, and off from the norm, I've been wondering if she's coming down with an illness or if i should just attribute it to teething.

In the hopes of finding out what is going on with my daughter I have been looking at some books and reading on the web and I finally found something that I think may actually help!

The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry on webmd did a study of 125 babies and studied what their symptoms of teething were and if fever, and diarrhea were a norm among teething babies. The mothers of these babies did a log every day of temp and any symptom they may possibly have. When the study was over they found that there is an 8 day teething period, and most of the babies did not have any symptoms of teething and others only had symptoms in those 8 days 4 days before tooth comes through and 3 days after. They found that if a child had a fever it was never over 102 degrees and none of them had diarrhea.

This was helpful because my daughter has not had a fever she's not really showing symptoms of an illness other than a runny nose and that is a possible symptom of teething.Yet its been going on for more a few weeks now. I'm glad we're going to the Dr at the end of next week though for her checkup and I can have the Dr determine if its teething, or illness!