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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks all for your answers.

For context, the nurse line we have access to pretty much always recommends urgent care. We don't want to go unnecessarily and either get a more vulnerable child severely ill, or catch something worse. In fact it's quite possible she caught this bug at urgent care this weekend (for an unrelated issue). Plus, my child has full on meltdowns when they do nose and throat swabs. Just wanted to get a sense of what other parents typically do when a child is coughing hard but otherwise breathing fine.[/quote]

They do that because they have to cover themselves from liability. They don’t have any other choice. If they tell you to go in, and you go and nothing happens, then nothing happens. You’ve wasted time and money but that’s not their problem. If they don’t tell you to go in, and it turns out that your child has a serious illness, they could be facing a lawsuit.

Often times, this is simply a judgment call and weighing the risks of not going in vs going in. And everyone has a different risk level as well as medical knowledge. I would suggest that if at any point you feel uncomfortable, and need the doctors to rule out things, just take your kid in. Better to waste time and money to find out it is nothing serious than to have regrets later. At least that’s what I would do.[/quote]

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