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I guess I was so caught off guard because we've been to the ER dozens of times with each of our kids and were never contacted by the school nurse after a visit until now. [/quote]

This jumps out at me.  If you've been at the ER dozens of times for multiple kids without diagnoses, then something is really wrong.  I can totally see them calling in extra support.  [/quote]

This is the OP again....please don't be a jackass. Yes...we've been to the ER DOZENS of times...ear infections, asthma attacks, allergy flare ups, sprained ankles, strep throat, ingrown toenail, suspicious rashes, food poisoning, spider bites, covid testing, stomach viruses, respiratory viruses, concussions, chicken pox...and more. Anybody that judges a parent for getting the appropriate medical care for their child is a moron....[/quote]

You have said your kid has no diagnosis.  Now you're saying they have asthma and allergies.

That many ER visits, especially for things that are usually prevented by vaccines, or medical care, or handled by urgent care or a primary care provider is a red flag that, at a bare minimum, your kid isn't connected with routine health care. [/quote]

I think you misunderstood...there was no new diagnosis made at this particular ER visit. And this particular child does not have asthma or allergies. But please tell me which of the things I mentioned are prevented by vaccines (with the exception of chicken pox, which one child got a few days after getting the varicella vaccine)? And which are prevented by medical care? And doubt that you're a parent, but if you were...would you take your child to a drs office or an urgent care clinic if said child was having trouble breathing? Covered in a strange rash? Had been bitten by a spider that caused an entire limb to swell? Had hit their head so hard during PE that their vision was blurry and he was throwing up (by the way the school was going to call the emt to take him to the ER, but I got to him first)? Had irretractable vomitting? Has their foot swell so much that they couldn't get on a shoe...this was the ingrown toenail case by the way, and they had to do surgery...yes SURGERY on my kid to resolve this issue. No PCP or urgent care clinic would have been able to do that...you know what they would have done? Told me to take him to the ER!!! How about if you had a kid that woke up and out of the blue had a 102 degree fever on a saturday...would you wait until monday to see the PCP? Maybe you would...but I didn't and I never had an ER dr or nurse tell me that I made a bad call...never, not one time.[/quote]

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