Parents of sick babies: always check the neck!
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Anonymous
| I thought this was also common knowledge. Seriously, we need parent licensing exams..... OP glad your baby is ok - she got lucky. |
Anonymous
| You know, I knew this about adults but I do not think I would have ever checked for it in a baby! Thanks, OP! |
Anonymous
| What a bunch of bitches. |
Anonymous
+1 assholes. OP - thank you so much for posting this. So glad your child is ok!!! |
Anonymous
| I did not know this. Thank you. |
Anonymous
+2. why even post to state "it's common knowledge". sheesh. |
Anonymous
| I guess I had heard it at one point, but agree it is not something I probably would have thought of with my baby. Thanks for posting, OP. I will definitely keep this in mind! |
Anonymous
Seriously, you people chastising the OP for not knowing this are assholes. I also knew that a sore neck could be a symptom of meningitis but probably wouldn't have thought about it in a pinch or known the best way to test a baby for it. OP, I'm glad everything worked out and thanks for posting this because now I know too! |
Anonymous
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It infuriates me that the ER nurses treated you like you were being overly cautious. I've experienced this again and again with my LO -- doctors not listening to me because my LO looks healthy in a quick exam. Okay, but I'm telling you, there's something wrong!
We see our kids all the time, and these people (professionals though they may be) see them for a few minutes. They need to remember to take what we say seriously. I love, love, love my ped because she does, but I have seen many other doctors who have not (and we later found out we were 100% right in feeling something wasn't right). OP, I'm so glad that your LO is okay and sorry for the scary experience! My LO was treated for meningitis as a newborn in the NICU because he showed signs 3 days after birth. It turned out to be nothing more than dehydration (!), but I was happy that they took it so seriously, even though we were freaked out and totally upset to have him in the NICU. |
Anonymous
| OP, thank you for posting. I truly had no idea and I'm not a first time mom. Also, I've never heard it from any of the pediatricians we've seen over the years. |
Anonymous
| Didn't know this. Thank you for posting. So glad your toddler was OK. |
Anonymous
| Also didn't know this and am not a ftm. Thank you! |
Anonymous
| OP, thank you for posting. I didn't know this and I am also not a FTM. |
Anonymous
| I did know this (my parents always asked me to look at my navel when I started running a fever-- my town lost two teenagers to meningitis and everyone was on guard), but did not check my daughter on her recent high-fever bug. I fretted about flu, because the fever was so high and because she had a stuffy nose. I guess I DON'T know what other symptoms to watch for with meningitis. Is it a fever and a stiff neck and nothing else? |
Anonymous
| Fever, headache, stiff neck. Sometimes confusion or extreme tiredness. Little babies don't have enough neck muscle to reliably get a stiff neck with meningitis, which is why doctors almost always do a spinal tap on a baby under 2 months with a fever. |