I just don't understand why people don't medicate their kids. Your two-year-old has a 105 fever? For two days? What, no Tylenol or Motrin? Oh, I see, you were waiting to see what we say is OK to give to your kid. No call to the pediatrician, huh? Oh, ok. What's that? Your four-year-old fell down and hurt his arm two days ago? And it still hurts? Did you give any Motrin? Oh, I see--you brought him in last night, but you had to wait more than a half hour, so you changed your mind? Ok, so you brought the poor kid home and dragged him back here this morning and HE IS IN PAIN AND YOU NEVER MEDICATED HIM???
Contrast this to the woman who came in with dental pain after an extraction who has been taking SIX tylenol. Every TWO HOURS. Around the CLOCK. FOR THE LAST TWO DAYS. Oh, and now your stomach really hurts? I bet it does.
Ma'am, you now have much worse problems than your dental pain.
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and they dont give those kiddos tylenol because they "want us to see that they really do have a fever". um ok, you are a stupid parent.
And, now the lady with dental pain has a really good dose of LIVER FAILURE! LOL
Yeah, I've heard that one, too. I sort of understand it, too. If your kid has a high fever, enough that you feel you need to take them to the hospital, but you give them tylenol before you go, by the time the doctor sees the kid, the fever is down to 99, and the doc says, "Why did you bring them for that low a fever"
That being said, I send all of my fever kids home with Tylenol dosing cards, so they can get medicated correctly before the hospital next time.
That's why I could never work in Peds; I know there are incompetent parents, but actually SEEING the poor kids right in front of me and seeing the look of hurt, or even that of neglect...I couldn't live with that.
When I was a kid, my dad would have to stop antipyretics before taking me to the doctor. I'd get there with a 99 temp and my dad would tell them I just got Advil. The doctor would never believe him and assume I did not have a fever. I've also had this happen to me as an adult. So, i think we've all been trained to go to the doctor with a raging fever so they believe us
How can people not realize that taking too much Tylenol or any pain reliever is damaging to the body? Morons!
Don't even get me started on parents with children who have fevers that don't medicate them.
So, your kid is sick. Your kid might feel better and not need to go to the hospital - if you treat the fever. In stead, withhold medication in order to be able to justify bring your kid to the ED.
No similarity between this and Munchausen by proxy.
Then we wonder why parents don't vaccinate their children. Without vaccines the diseases kill millions. The vaccines prevent the diseases from killing. Tough choice.
Then there is a crazy mother who gets her kid to run away from cancer treatment that stands a good chance of saving his life. This is seen as a parents' rights issue rather than child abuse. It is no more a parents' rights issue than selling your children into prostitution, but try explaining that to an idiot.
Augh!
I've been the triage nurse wondering why this person's parent card wasn't revoked as their kid sits there with a 102 temp and they didn't give him anything, because they wanted me to "see he had a fever" but I've been the mom whose kid spikes a fever of 104 on Saturday night and after two doses of Tylenol is still at 102. And I was arguing with the pediatrician on the phone about taking my kid to the ER. The pedi doc won. We went (not the ER I worked in, though). They drew blood, gave him a dose of Tylenol and a script for ABX and sent us back home (why couldn't the pedi have called the Rx in?) No I don't think it's Munchausen by Proxy, Rogue Medic, I think it's mostly parents who have been intimidated by cynical docs and their oh-so-pleasant office staff and by us sometimes bluntly honest ER folks. So when I see a parent who isn't a dope and they tell me, "I didn't give her anything, so you would see she has a fever." I immediately get out the Motrin and softly say, "It's okay to medicate the child, I would have believed you."
Hi, I'm new to your blog! I read your latest post and have been reading on for about a half hour now!
Anyhow, I have to say that when I worked in the Corrections field, it would always drive me up the wall when we would have offenders that wanted to take their children to the hospital for a fever. I would make a suggestion to give the child Tylenol or Motrin, and they seemed aghast at my even suggesting such a sensible thing! A lot of these people were the same ones that brought their child into the hospital at 3 a.m., only to bring the child home after a half-hour because they didn't want to wait. Awesome.
Love your blog!
Where I worked the biggest issue was not really about whether the parents treated the fever or not, but the other stuff they did....like layering the child in 5 or 6 layers of clothing (it's a cultural thing) The child would come in bundled so tightly with his bright red little face peeking out- poor thing would be on fire, no wonder!
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