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[Abraxaz1]

Decided to phone 111 about my daughter's fever and rash, after 30 mins on hold I finally get through. Women asks me what the bugger is doing.....

Typically she's dancing to dougie whilst shoving her face full of food...


Ten minutes earlier she was refusing food and screaming bloody murder

 

[Bar]

Got to love kids for this. Its even better when they are still ill, you get asked to go to the out of hours, the cool air drops their temperature just enough so you get that "ahhh so youre one of those exagerating parents" looks.

Its also amazing how your own reaction changes based on the number of kids: Child falls over and bangs head

1st child: OMG we need to get to A&E
2nd child: im really worried I think we should go to the out of hours
3rd child: hmmm lets keep an eye on and if they arent right in the morning we will go to the doctors
4th child: get up child, it was barely a bump
5th child: still breathing? Excellent, they will get up when they are ready

 

[robj20]

Hello mate! Congrats ! Welcome to the whisper club hahaha

Whisper club?

Not felt the urge to phone 111 or anything like that yet. He's never more than a week away from seeing someone anyway.

Were waiting for the colds the wife and I have had last week to take hold on him now wonder what that will be like, only concern there is breathing and aspiration while feeding is his nose is blocked.

Feel a little better about such things knowing we have direct access to the ward so no need to go A&E.

 

[Devrij]

Yeah I had a similar experience recently. Temp over 40C, call 111, they send out an ambulance, who recommend bringing her in to hospital. Worried faces all round as we carry our limp roasting daughter out. Get to the hospital and she's all jokes and smiles and temp has dropped to a high 37. Now any time she has a cough she says "Not very well, need a ambulance".

 

[robj20]

Yeah I had a similar experience recently. Temp over 40C, call 111, they send out an ambulance, who recommend bringing her in to hospital. Worried faces all round as we carry our limp roasting daughter out. Get to the hospital and she's all jokes and smiles and temp has dropped to a high 37. Now any time she has a cough she says "Not very well, need a ambulance".

Until you have some experience though it's hard to judge what to do. You can't overreact to something you have no experience of. It's good they don't judge you about it though stops you feeling like Twit when it turns out to be nothing.

Did anyone do the baby first aid course. It was mandatory for us. Well worth it I would say.

In the case of a high temp like above you strip them off to start with.

 

[haz_pro]

I really wouldn't worry about "over reacting".

Back in summer one of my girls fell off the slide - screamed like I've never heard before, saying her arm hurts.

Get her in the car and drive to A&E, a couple of minutes and she's asleep. I'm thinking to myself, this is mad, go back home... I didn't though.

Get to the hospital, she's fine, chatting and jumping around, using both her hands like normal. This is crazy I think - what are we doing here.

X-ray completed and back to the waiting room, again, absolutely fine - I know the x-ray is goign to be clear.

Nope - broken arm - seems adrenaline is even more powerful than I knew!!

 

[Buddy]

Whisper club?

Just an in joke between me and Robocod. We've played ps4 together for sometime. I had a kid for a while and he's enjoyed taking the mick when I've been whispering over comms when the kids been asleep.

 

[robj20]

Had some funny moments recently. Had the in laws round recently and they commented why i change him from the bottom up, so gave the other way round ago.

He was greatly amused at my efforts. I cant do it any other way than bottom first.

 

[ShortWarning]

I really wouldn't worry about "over reacting".

Back in summer one of my girls fell off the slide - screamed like I've never heard before, saying her arm hurts.

Get her in the car and drive to A&E, a couple of minutes and she's asleep. I'm thinking to myself, this is mad, go back home... I didn't though.

Get to the hospital, she's fine, chatting and jumping around, using both her hands like normal. This is crazy I think - what are we doing here.

X-ray completed and back to the waiting room, again, absolutely fine - I know the x-ray is goign to be clear.

Nope - broken arm - seems adrenaline is even more powerful than I knew!!

Similar thing when my daughter had croup. Woke up in the middle of the night crying and unable to breath. It's the only time I've ever said, lets go to hospital now (it's normally wait and see). On the way in the car she perked up and was joking around, she still sounded like a horse but was otherwise fine. Got there, they diagnosed her, gave her some steroids and she was good as new. Could have played the wait and see game and I'm sure she'd have been fine but it's always better to be safe than sorry. If she had it again or my youngest did, even if I was 98% sure it was croup, I'd still take them in to be safe.

 

[antijoke]

Congrats!

I'm 5 weeks in:

This is Theodore Elliot. I don't think he likes me.

Hahaha, congrats. I have a picture of my eldest doing that as a baby, my GF is convinced I posed his finger like that, but I swear I didn't.

 

[Abraxaz1]

So news on the diseased midget front....


Good new; she doesn't have a cold....

Bad news she has hand, foot and mouth.


Starting to think about pulling her out of nursery, she hasn't been at all well since joining.

 

[NiCkNaMe]

So news on the diseased midget front....


Good new; she doesn't have a cold....

Bad news she has hand, foot and mouth.


Starting to think about pulling her out of nursery, she hasn't been at all well since joining.

How old? My daughter is 2.5 and went through a right time of it from about 1-2 at nursery. Caught it all.. thankfully seems much more resilient now, although we've had bad colds this week (and a trip to a&e with blue lips)

 

[Abraxaz1]

How old? My daughter is 2.5 and went through a right time of it from about 1-2 at nursery. Caught it all.. thankfully seems much more resilient now, although we've had bad colds this week (and a trip to a&e with blue lips)

14 months yesterday.

So far since August she's norovirus, flu, colds x2, scarlet fever and now she is covered in blisters.

 

[Bar]

playgroups and schools are biowarfare factories, every time my kids come home from school after a holiday between terms they have some new bug or disease. Just one of those things, but crucially it helps them build up their immunity.

 

[Devrij]

Yeah mine was the same. They're like plague houses those play groups, but they do get over it eventually and then it's just the usual sniffles and coughs.

 

[theone8181]

TBH the one thing you really want them to get is chicken pox, my daughter went all the way through the first 2 years of nursery then when my son went, he got it then so did she.

 

[RoboCod]

Just one week and #dadlife is already the best thing.

Barry cat has gone from assistant midwife to chief baby sitter. A solid cat bro he does make.

 

[Resident]

playgroups and schools are biowarfare factories, every time my kids come home from school after a holiday between terms they have some new bug or disease. Just one of those things, but crucially it helps them build up their immunity.

The issue is that most parents do not follow the 2 days clear advice. Usually because of the financial implications of being off work.

 

[ci_newman]

So news on the diseased midget front....


Good new; she doesn't have a cold....

Bad news she has hand, foot and mouth.


Starting to think about pulling her out of nursery, she hasn't been at all well since joining.

Pulling her out of nursery doesn't fix the issue though. Kids have to pick up these illnesses when they are younger in order to help build up their immune system.

The reason you dont catch hand, foot and mouth as an adult is because you built immunity to it as a child. You cannot keep them covered in cotton wool for all their life, they have to deal with these illnesses eventually. (And let's be honest, they are completely mild really. Just hard work to deal with).

 

[ShortWarning]

Pulling her out of nursery doesn't fix the issue though. Kids have to pick up these illnesses when they are younger in order to help build up their immune system.

The reason you dont catch hand, foot and mouth as an adult is because you built immunity to it as a child. You cannot keep them covered in cotton wool for all their life, they have to deal with these illnesses eventually. (And let's be honest, they are completely mild really. Just hard work to deal with).

I agree. All kids will pick up loads of things when they first start at nursery but it's important to build their immune system.