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What caused you to bring your child to the ER?
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Anonymous
| The post about how to get to the ER got me thinking -- what ailments have caused you to bring your child to the ER (versus waiting it out)? |
Anonymous
| Serious cuts that my pediatrician recommended I take them to get sutured. Both times, I called the pediatrician first since cuts aren't life threatening, but there is a window during which suturing can be done. One of my friends took her kid after a broken bone. |
Anonymous
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Nursemaid's elbow. Twice.
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| DD stuck something up her nose. |
Anonymous
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What's nursemaid's elbow?
We took our one-year-old in for wheezing with a bad cold. It was a waste of time, but now we know what's serious and what's not in that vein. |
Anonymous
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I'm embarrassed to admit that my not even 3 yo son has been to the ER four times --
1. ~ 1 yo with a bad stomach bug, ended up with a bit of blood in his vomit by nighttime. He was very dehydrated and was in the hospital for 2 days. 2. ~ 18 months, he face-planted from a sofa onto our coffee table, requiring stitches to the gash on his forehead. 3. ~2 yo, nursemaid's elbow, which is basically when the joint becomes dislocated. In our case, our son was being uncooperative and dropping to the floor. 4. ~2.5 yo, son had fallen in a furniture store over a weekend, hit his face on a chair and had a bad bloody nose. We didn't take him in for that, but two days later at daycare, he was complaining that his head hurt, and then he threw up. To be safe, we took him to the ER, but it was likely just a mild stomach bug unrelated to the bloody nose. Who knows what's next. |
Anonymous
Here's the description. They told me that it's one of the most common toddler injuries. It's horrible. ________________________________________________________________________ What is nursemaid's elbow? Nursemaid's elbow occurs when the radius (one of the bones in the forearm) slips out of place from where it normally attaches to the elbow joint. It is a common condition in children younger than 4 years of age. It is also called pulled elbow, slipped elbow, or toddler elbow. The medical term for nursemaid's elbow is radial head subluxation. What causes nursemaid's elbow? A sudden pulling or traction on the hand or forearm causes nursemaid's elbow. This causes the radius to slip out of the ligament holding it into the elbow. It can occur when an infant rolls himself or herself over, from a fall or from pulling, or swinging a young child by the hand. |
Anonymous
| 11-month old had extreme labored and rapid breathing. Diagnosed with RSV and admitted to hospital for a week. |
Anonymous
Similar here. Once for croup, once for RSV, and once just because yet another cold settled in his lungs, causing wheezing, and his blood oxygen level was low. |
Anonymous
| Pneumonia. We had no idea. 18 month old had a high fever that didn't respond to Tylenol. They had to do xrays and intravenous antibiotics. Scared me badly. It's one of the reasons I am seriously worried about over use of antibiotics for my children. I shudder to think what could have happened if the pneumonia hadn't been responsive to the IV drugs. |
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At 4 months, my daughter had 2 episodes of gasping and called 911 both times. The first time, we did not go but went the second time. Diagnosed as symptom of GERD. We were taught how to aspirate and get her breathing back on track, but it was very scary the first two times.
She is 4.5 yo now and we have only been back to ER (as it was afterhours and we are overseas and doctors are not "on call" to respond over the phone) a couple of times in the last year with very high fevers that did not respond to tylenol/motrin. We now keep suppositories, which work quickly, for such emergencies. |
Anonymous
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At 13 months my son grabbed the roller blade under our vacuum. He was playing with his toys and I was vacuuming the floor. I stopped vacuuming to attache the hose and in a split second the vaccum tipped over. I heard a cry and looked down and he had his hand in the spinning roller. It was all a matter of seconds. It happend so quickly. At first his hand looked fine but again, within seconds his plam and fingers turned pink and skin started peeling off.
We did rush to the pediatrician which is connected to Shady Grove Hospital. The nurse escorted us into the emergency room staright to the ped dept and to a room. He needed to have the wound cleaned and wrapped. Thank God there was no damage to his nerves, hand or any scarring. It was very scary and took weeks to heal. Needless to say we threw the vacuum off and bought one with automatic shut off. My teenage son has been to the ER umpteen times for asthma attacks, migraines, horrible abdominal pain, xrays due to Little League and soccer injuries. |
Anonymous
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Once when she was two months old. We fell down the stairs together. She fell three or four feet and hit her head on the wood. I broke two toes. Watching her fall was the one of the scariest moments of my life. They did a scan of her head and all was well.
Also when she was 15 months, 5 days into the rotavirus. She was so dehydrated that she had not peed all day. It has been 15 or 16 hours. They sent us home with some advice on how to get more liquids into her. Her 18 mo old cousin, whom we lived with at the time, was hospitalized the following day because he was so badly dehydrated. That was a rough week. |
Anonymous
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I've taken my son 3 times:
1. At 18 months he was standing on a chair, fell backward, cut head open on chair. Required staples. 2. At 2 years, slipped on the ice and broke his leg-had his leg wrapped in a splint and ace wrap. 3. The next day we were back in the ER when he grabbed the little metal clasp holding his ace wrap on and stuck it in his mouth. He swallowed it and made some gasping choking sounds, even though he was breathing fine, I drove him to the ER just to make sure the clasp had not gone down his windpipe. He had an xray that showed everything was fine. Now we've gone 8 years without an ER visit |
Anonymous
This is probably my single biggest fear. |