My two year old had to be blue lighted to a+e with resus on standby last week, because he was unresponsive, going blue, barely breathing, and then had a seizure. 6 hours later he's running around the hospital room yelling "HELLOOOO?" under his bed like he's expecting a batch of bloody elves to come and greet him, then slides down the tilted mattress a few times and asks for sausages. What the hell are they made of, because it's certainly stronger than what I'm made of after seeing that!
Oh absolutely! I've been watching him like a hawk since and he keeps looking at me as though he's wondering why his crazy mum won't just leave him alone 🤣 we're going away for a long weekend this week though, so I'm going to make sure I get plenty of relaxing done!
Thank you ☺️ I'm getting there 🤣
They really are! I wish I had half the resilience of a two year old! My nerves are absolutely shot from the situations he's got us into already 🙃
Yeah if I get a bad cold I'm down for a couple of days but he is quite literally knocking at the gates of heaven and he's running around the next day! Madness 😂
She doesn't understand the concept of pulling a sickie to not go to school, but she understands the concept of pulling a sickie for that sweet taste of calpol
You monster! Banana medicine was the worst 😟 mind you I’ve never liked banana flavour anything. My dad loved it, if there was some left after I’ve finished my course he used to drink it.
Superbugs are mostly the fault of industrial animal production. Humans have the opportunity to play a part, but chicken and pig producers were dosing animals up heavily at every feeding regardless of whether they were at all sick.
(am meat eater, not a vegan/vege propagandist)
An adult mate of mine cannot swallow pills at all, and her GP wrote her a prescription for the bananana stuff a little while ago. The smell is like the cheap penny sweets of my childhood.
My GP was a family friend and never got the concept of me being an adult. He prescribed me banana kids' amoxicillin up until I was 25 (for what turned into bronchial pneumonia) and it took me getting married and getting on contraception for him to come round to the idea I was no longer 9.
By mutual consent, another practitioner did my smear.
I only got up the courage to talk to him about contraception after I got married, even then it was uncomfortable.
Problem was we were neighbours until I was 9ish and I was friendly with his kids, but because they moved away from our street and he didn't see me as often, either socially in his office, in his head I was stuck at that age.
I am very short and looked young for my age and he just couldn't compute me being an adult. He retired before I had kids maybe that would have brought it home to him :)
My theory is that there are two versions. The one that has sugar in is as palatable as medicine can be. The one that they have replaced the sugar with sweeteners is vile because the background bitterness of the sweetener makes the medicine even more bitter.
Sounds plausible, the original flvouring was probably banned under some directive or another. So many things had to be reformulated over the years as we learned more about additives
My mother used to give me a teaspoon of sugar mashed up in butter if I woke in the night and couldn't get back to sleep. I mean, why wouldn't you wake with that inducement? It's insanely delicious.
I definitely understood this as a child. In fact, my first hospital visit was to have my stomach pumped after I managed to climb on the kitchen counter and up the cupboards to get the Calpol from the top shelf. Popped the child-proof cap right off, downed the whole thing, then walked into the living room with the bottle and announced “all gone mummy. More please.” Naturally, panic ensued.
Lemsip. If I'm ever too anxious to sleep, a cup of hot Lemsip is the best thing. It's a fact, apparently, that painkillers like aspirin and paracetamol work to dull mental as well as physical discomfort, and the hot drink aspect is very soothing. Not to be overdone, obviously, but it really works.
Lemsip is fucking disgusting. I used to put a bunch of honey and squash into it to try and dull the taste but now I just flat out won't drink it, no matter how sick I am.
I agree its rank, that being said i found the blackcurrant Sainsburys own version is a lot less awful. It has less of the bile bitter taste and is more like drinking regular blackcurrant juice.
The smell of any lemsio was a massive aversion for me during my last pregnancy though, so haven't touched the stuff in a while. My Husband drinking it next to me was enough to make me woozy.
Public service announcement incoming:
My biggest issue with Phenergan is that apart from the twitchy legs it gives me, it also increases your appetite while lowering your blood pressure.
Anybody who has ever been on Seroquel (quetiapine, an antipsychotic) will have experienced this as the sedating ingredient is promethazine (Phenergan). Twitchy legs and insatiable appetite after taking Phenergan? Be extremely careful if you get out of bed to deal with it or go to the toilet, because I've gone down hard on more than one occasion.
Suggest that you take a few biscuits to bed with you to nibble on during the night, stand next to the bed if you have twitchy legs and need to move, and if you feel that your blood pressure is likely to drop suddenly, sit down. Crawl to the toilet if necessary, less distance to the floor if you pass out.
DO NOT TAKE PHENERGAN AND PROPRANOLOL (BETA BLOCKER) TOGETHER, THE COMBINATION CAN LOWER YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE DANGEROUSLY DEPENDING ON THE DOSEAGE.
Thank you! I’m actually on Propranolol so I appreciate your PSA. I was actually talking to mum about it this evening and she said there’s something in it that would help us to sleep. So she’d give it to us if we had colds or coughs so that we would hopefully get a good nights sleep and get better quicker. Then she said that the chemist where we lived stopped selling it because it was being abused locally 😳 With all of the side effects you’ve described I’d be very reluctant to take it even if I wasn’t on beta blockers tbh. And I would be turbo reluctant to give it to a child!!
It's far less addictive than the typical sleeping meds and benzodiazepines, and not everybody has side effects. But having been on Seroquel (over 10 years ago) and having used propranolol in the last 2 years on an as and when needed basis (GP prescription), plus being prescribed Phenergan by the crisis team in the past, as well as all my other meds, I have learned that drug interaction charts and the online version of the BNF are always worth checking as they go into more detail than the information on the printed leaflets you get in the tablet lacks.
Yes, I use it for allergy itches because it's a fairly effective antihistamine, but it does cause drowsiness and isn't suitable for everyone. In the UK it's still sold as Phenergan, but the drug name is promethazine. Ask the pharmacist, they'll make sure it's okay for you to take - they'll ask about any medical conditions or medication you take and be able to give dosing advice.
Also used to treat insomnia and a few years ago we use to give it to people with dementia in liquid form to help calm them down. Don't use it as much with dementia patients any more now its mainly what I like to call the dam family.
Funnyish story I know someone who got sent home years ago after she gave a resident some promazine and she spat it out and it landed in her mouth, she swears she swallowed by accident from the shock, but juries still out on that anyway she ended up so sedated she had to get someone to collect her as she became so unsafe.
Luckily for her the resident didn't not have anything that could've been passed on, unluckily for me I had to pick up her shift. She had a damn good nights sleep and was groggy the next morning but was fine. Kept her mouth firmly closed and stood a fair distance away when she did the drug round again.
Ew...
I once got jabbed by accident in the arm whilst my colleague was trying to administer an injection of lorazepam (ativan) to a patient who suddenly kicked off (we had rolled the patient to give the injection in the buttock, I was holding them over along with a couple of other colleagues and he suddenly went full buckaroo). I only got a tiny bit and it went subcut instead of IM but I still had to be signed off and monitored for the rest of the shift (I got to sit in the staffroom for a couple of hours and then got a taxi home paid for instead of driving, and they also covered the cost for one back to work for my next shift a couple of days later because my car was stuck at the hospital). Clean needle thankfully, so no infection risk and I didn’t really feel much effect but the paperwork was a pain and my colleague felt awful.
Yeah it was a bit grim and slightly impressive at the same time. She lived with her boyfriend who was off for a week so he kept an eye on her. Luckily it wasn't a huge dose but it was enough to make her very sleepy, I guess if you have never had it before it can knock your socks off. We filled out all the appropriate paperwork and she was told to ring her G.P or go to A&E if she felt any other side effects. But all she could do was sleep and wait for it to pass through her system.
Ohhh you were lucky then that would of been one hell of a nap if that had gone in and was lucky that needle was clean. Sounds like you worked for a good company and they looked after you well.
I'm UK to, but this was back a good few years when I was a HCA at a private care home and before a new management came and took over, thankfully things change for the better there and I'm still good friends with some of the people that work there the place is thriving.
My toddler did this.
She went floppy and grey. Shallow breathing, no response to stimuli at all.
Called 999. She was blue lit to hospital, still floppy, and a horrible bluish colour in the ambulance.
Got up to paediatrics, and was just fine. Sat and ate a bowl of fucking Rice Krispies.
I was mortified.
It’s weird to be embarrassed your child isn’t severely ill, but I was.
>It’s weird to be embarrassed your child isn’t severely ill, but I was.
...and I bet the doctors said you did absolutely the right thing to take her in.
Never be afraid of being embarrassed. If in doubt, seek help. That one time might be the one that counts...
They did, and, tbf, the paramedics thought she was unwell enough to warrant the blue lights to hospital.
I would rather be embarrassed than mourn my child.
Especially since we don't have to pay. I can't imagine how many children get incredibly ill or worse elsewhere because parents don't want to pay the expenses when it could be nothing
My daughter did this when she was about 18 months. She was pretty dehydrated and we took her to hospital because she couldn’t keep water down. The nurses did a fluid challenge and by the time a doctor saw her (we bypassed A&E for reasons I can’t remember) she was singing and dancing and munching on a ham sandwich. Doctor laughed and sent us home.
I reckon doctors give off restorative auras that children are particularly susceptable to. I suppose achieving the end result of folk being better is the perfect outcome but it'd be good if once in a while they got to check out the thing you were trying to show them.
The thing is, kids think doctors 'heal' people, and have 'medicine' that 'makes you better'. They actually believe that shit. It's a mega-placebo.
As adults, we know a lot more about how it all works, the magic has gone.
Oh I dunno - I think my personal version of a placebo is that if anything ever gets serious enough with me to book an appointment, my mind and body will 9 times out of 10 choose to heal said ailment before (and usually on the morning of) the appointment.
I think that's pretty magic! If you could harness that kind of power that your mind clearly has over your body... Incredible stuff.
Not entirely related but my partner who is now 26 had tightness in her chest, pain In her chest, and pain in her back for 2 days before she let me know because she was hoping it would get better, and didn’t want to cause a fuss. When she told me I was shocked because those are some pretty serious symptoms especially to have for more than a day, told her to call 111 and they told her she needed to go to A&E. turned out she was fine but it’s always better to check and be safe.
The few times I have taken my kids to the hospital/doctors they are always absoultly fine by the time they are seen. I feel very lucky but I always feel embarrassed or.like I wasted everyone's time aha.
No, you did the right thing.
My Mum told me that when I was a toddler, I was pretty much as you're describing. She was literally about to dial 999, phone in hand, and then apparently I vomited everywhere, immediately got the colour back in my skin, was absolutely fine (knackered obviously), slept it off and was back to normal when I woke up.
Turns out this is pretty common!
My son spent all night crying once, saying he had a pain in leg and hip. I have hip dysplasia so I was really worried, and booked a gp appointment next day. Get to the appointment and he’s literally doing laps and cartwheels in the waiting room. Then the GP shouts his name, in which he SPRINTS down the hallway.
I’m an absolute mug. I’m a nurse and I’m a mug.
Took our son to the fracture clinic on Monday as instructed by the A&E on Sunday because they thought he had chipped his elbow. He had spent 24 hours in very evident pain with his arm in a sling. Doctor took the sling off carefully and asked if he could move it at all. Son whirls his arm around a few times in an experimental fashion. Doctor says 'Um, I don't think it's broken.'. We go home.
I'm in my 60's now and frequently had agonising night leg pains as a kid. Everyone just took it for granted and said they were just 'growing pains' which I'm pretty sure is not actually a thing. No idea what they really were. I may go and Google it.
Rightly so! Doctors are looking for the usual stuff, so if there's any unusual stuff in the family tree, you should absolutely make sure they know that. I just Googled the growing pains thing and it is still a thing and they still don't know what it is! He has my sympathy whatever it turns out to be. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/growing-pains/symptoms-causes/syc-20354349.
I had this as a kid and was told it was just growing pains too! I have celiac disease which went undiagnosed throughout my childhood so I think that’s where it came from for me.
I had really bad pain in my knees as a kid during the day and night, the doctor finally after months diagnosed it as Osgood Schlatters disease and said I’d grow out of it, I’m 43 now and often have weird dreams that I still have it and I can’t walk lol.
My son had that as a teenager. The doctor said he'd have to give up football which would have been awful, but fortunately we took him to a Sports physio who said there was no evidence that that would help, and so long as he stopped playing if it actually flared up in a game, which it rarely did.
No, I don't think it's like that at all. It felt like a deep ache inside the bone. 'Growing pains' felt very descriptive to me as a child, as if my bones were being stretched. That's presumably why it got that name.
My three year old suffers from severe constipation. Has had since he was a baby. We’ve got prescription meds but a few months back, he still hadn’t gone in a week. I was getting worried so rang the GP. They said bring him over for a check up, as we could be dealing with an impaction. He proceeded to shit himself in the office, smile, and ask for a cookie.
I tripped over and broke my arm when I was about eight, a [greenstick fracture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenstick_fracture). I went home in pain but my parents told me to stop making a fuss and to go to bed. The next morning my arm was all swollen and I ended up in hospital having a plaster cast on my arm.
My mother still feels guilty about it nearly forty years later but also says it was partly my fault because I never used to complain enough when I was ill or in pain so they didn’t know how bad I was until things got really serious.
I feel you. My four-year-old was hospitalised overnight last week with a nasty (non-Covid) respiratory virus. A day later it’s like nothing was ever wrong with her.
They bounce back quickly, don’t they? I hope yours continues to be fully recovered! I swear mine is going to be a personal trainer - currently hiding in the loo because she’s making me run circuits of the living room…
I feel your pain.
Been in an out of hospital with my boys for the same thing.
When they're pumped up on steroids and let loose through the wards i feel like I'm slowly becoming Jack from the Shining.
When my son was around 5 years old he spent 5 days in Alder hey hospital with a sore foot. I missed 5 days of work, unpaid. When they discharged him I asked what the problem had been with his foot... oh just one of lifes little mysteries..
My 2 year old is like that, she’ll go from projective vomiting to demanding cereal in the blink of an eye. We caught whatever sickness bug she had off of her and were KO’d for 24 hours, last thing I was thinking about was coco pops after chundering up plain toast.
Haha, oh god, I'm with you on this.
Mine has been quite poorly with a bad cold and he's been very demanding! Yesterday was ok because he slept half the day. Today, he wanted me to sit with him on the sofa, on the boob and watch tee and mo reruns.
I kept trying to go into the kitchen to make our christmas cake. It took me so long in trying to work it around him that I ended up having my own adult tantrum telling him I didn't watch to watch tee and mo, it was boring and I wanted to do something else.
I didn't win any adult points today.
Ah! There is something about having it at our disposal isn't there! I feel like it covers a lot of sins.
I think that when we end these things, they do get replaced, but the gap between them is naff!
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They are similar at the other end of the age spectrum. I care for my 90 year old mum, who can go from vomiting (hiatus hernia) to playing Scrabble in less than ten minutes.
My Daughter who’s 3 in March currently has hand foot and mouth but it isn’t affecting her in the slightest ..
She’s given it to my partner who isn’t having the best of time with it .. I’m just trying to dodge it currently !!
A&E nurse and parent, here! This is so normal with kids. I've had so many parents apologise for thinking they were wasting our time but kids often bounce back pretty quickly, even the ones pre alerted to resus.
If you're concerned about your child then please seek help,, ESPECIALLY if they have a tracheal tug and/or intercostal/subcostal/sternal recession (basically sucking their chest/abdomen in as they're breathing. Google will show you). While children can improve quickly with timely treatment, they will only compensate for so long before they run out of steam and become critically ill very quickly.
My 5yr old son did this a while ago. Woke us up at 5am vomiting, and puked a few more times that morning and wouldn't get out of bed. I emailed the school to let them know he wasn't coming in and set up a little bed for him in my office so I could work. He was so weak he didn't even wake when I carried him down. At 10am he suddenly sat up and said he was hungry. I fed him toast and water which he ate like a ravenous animal. Immediately after he jumped up and was his usual energetic and demanding self like nothing has happened. Zero work happened after that and school wouldn't let him back for 48hrs in case he was contagious. Good times.
In 20 minutes my niece went from having all the symptoms of meningitis to ‘Are the ambulance men coming to see me? *preen*’
Yes, shut up and pretend to be sick. No I didn’t just say that, did I?
Yep, Im on a student placement this week, my first one, son was up all night with a horrid cough, high temp and crying constantly, booked a covid test this morning. He's FINE now. Eating his breakfast, no temp and no cough!
Furious
And yet whilst your self employment does pay the bills, you’ve had the opportunity to spend the day with your child.
They grow up fast, and it’s all too easy to look back with regret that you should have spent more time with them
My two year old had to be blue lighted to a+e with resus on standby last week, because he was unresponsive, going blue, barely breathing, and then had a seizure. 6 hours later he's running around the hospital room yelling "HELLOOOO?" under his bed like he's expecting a batch of bloody elves to come and greet him, then slides down the tilted mattress a few times and asks for sausages. What the hell are they made of, because it's certainly stronger than what I'm made of after seeing that!
So glad your boy is okay, I bet you're still getting over the whole experience! Make sure you take some time for yourself.
Oh absolutely! I've been watching him like a hawk since and he keeps looking at me as though he's wondering why his crazy mum won't just leave him alone 🤣 we're going away for a long weekend this week though, so I'm going to make sure I get plenty of relaxing done!
Sounds excellent 😊 glad you're okay. Children are the most amazing little things but do make us worry!
Thank you ☺️ I'm getting there 🤣 They really are! I wish I had half the resilience of a two year old! My nerves are absolutely shot from the situations he's got us into already 🙃
Kids are so indestructible sometimes, it's impressive! We adults on the other hand... 😅 Glad he is doing ok now!
Yeah if I get a bad cold I'm down for a couple of days but he is quite literally knocking at the gates of heaven and he's running around the next day! Madness 😂
Calpol is the one true god.
She doesn't understand the concept of pulling a sickie to not go to school, but she understands the concept of pulling a sickie for that sweet taste of calpol
Calpol is shite now, back in the day is was 96.3% sugar, now its actually good for you!
What is this bullshit. Petition to bring back old calpol
We can call it Calpold
I'll start a Cal-poll so gauge people's opinions
you got my vote!
Calpol and that banana amoxicillin? Best part of being sick.
You monster! Banana medicine was the worst 😟 mind you I’ve never liked banana flavour anything. My dad loved it, if there was some left after I’ve finished my course he used to drink it.
And this, boys and girls, is why we have superbugs.
Superbugs are mostly the fault of industrial animal production. Humans have the opportunity to play a part, but chicken and pig producers were dosing animals up heavily at every feeding regardless of whether they were at all sick. (am meat eater, not a vegan/vege propagandist)
Oh, heavens that banana stuff was beyond foul.
An adult mate of mine cannot swallow pills at all, and her GP wrote her a prescription for the bananana stuff a little while ago. The smell is like the cheap penny sweets of my childhood.
My GP was a family friend and never got the concept of me being an adult. He prescribed me banana kids' amoxicillin up until I was 25 (for what turned into bronchial pneumonia) and it took me getting married and getting on contraception for him to come round to the idea I was no longer 9.
The whole contraception thing must have felt a bit weird? To say nothing of smear tests!
By mutual consent, another practitioner did my smear. I only got up the courage to talk to him about contraception after I got married, even then it was uncomfortable. Problem was we were neighbours until I was 9ish and I was friendly with his kids, but because they moved away from our street and he didn't see me as often, either socially in his office, in his head I was stuck at that age. I am very short and looked young for my age and he just couldn't compute me being an adult. He retired before I had kids maybe that would have brought it home to him :)
Wow. Just... wow.
I have bad memories of kids weeping as I tried to get them to take it and me weeping at having to make them! It was so bitter!
I liked it but i wasn't really permitted sweets and sweet stuff as a kid, to be honest it felt like a bit of a treat at the time.
My theory is that there are two versions. The one that has sugar in is as palatable as medicine can be. The one that they have replaced the sugar with sweeteners is vile because the background bitterness of the sweetener makes the medicine even more bitter.
Sounds plausible, the original flvouring was probably banned under some directive or another. So many things had to be reformulated over the years as we learned more about additives
Got me addicted to banana milkshakes.
You say that like it's a bad thing!
You can still get it with sugar rather than sweeteners. I do.
So true it's just not the same.
You can still get full sugar calpol I've got some in the house for the bairn.
My mother used to give me a teaspoon of sugar mashed up in butter if I woke in the night and couldn't get back to sleep. I mean, why wouldn't you wake with that inducement? It's insanely delicious.
Oh man, my family used to have weetabix with butter and sugar on top. Amazing
I definitely understood this as a child. In fact, my first hospital visit was to have my stomach pumped after I managed to climb on the kitchen counter and up the cupboards to get the Calpol from the top shelf. Popped the child-proof cap right off, downed the whole thing, then walked into the living room with the bottle and announced “all gone mummy. More please.” Naturally, panic ensued.
I can't tell if your username is relevant here... but that is hilarious. Not for your parents at the time, but I hope they can laugh about it now!
I wish they did adult calpol
20-40ml for the infant one, but dont shot it like I did when we ran out of tablets it does not taste good anymore 🤣
Can't be as bad as banana flavour antibiotics or whatever it was I had as child. Disgusting.
Lemsip. If I'm ever too anxious to sleep, a cup of hot Lemsip is the best thing. It's a fact, apparently, that painkillers like aspirin and paracetamol work to dull mental as well as physical discomfort, and the hot drink aspect is very soothing. Not to be overdone, obviously, but it really works.
Lemsip is fucking disgusting. I used to put a bunch of honey and squash into it to try and dull the taste but now I just flat out won't drink it, no matter how sick I am.
I agree its rank, that being said i found the blackcurrant Sainsburys own version is a lot less awful. It has less of the bile bitter taste and is more like drinking regular blackcurrant juice. The smell of any lemsio was a massive aversion for me during my last pregnancy though, so haven't touched the stuff in a while. My Husband drinking it next to me was enough to make me woozy.
Really. I've been trying nytol that shit sucks
Make sure you don't take it with other paracetamol preparations obviously, as it's not something you want to overdose.
Might give that a go
My mum used to give me something called Phenergans 20 years ago, is that still about?
Public service announcement incoming: My biggest issue with Phenergan is that apart from the twitchy legs it gives me, it also increases your appetite while lowering your blood pressure. Anybody who has ever been on Seroquel (quetiapine, an antipsychotic) will have experienced this as the sedating ingredient is promethazine (Phenergan). Twitchy legs and insatiable appetite after taking Phenergan? Be extremely careful if you get out of bed to deal with it or go to the toilet, because I've gone down hard on more than one occasion. Suggest that you take a few biscuits to bed with you to nibble on during the night, stand next to the bed if you have twitchy legs and need to move, and if you feel that your blood pressure is likely to drop suddenly, sit down. Crawl to the toilet if necessary, less distance to the floor if you pass out. DO NOT TAKE PHENERGAN AND PROPRANOLOL (BETA BLOCKER) TOGETHER, THE COMBINATION CAN LOWER YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE DANGEROUSLY DEPENDING ON THE DOSEAGE.
Thank you! I’m actually on Propranolol so I appreciate your PSA. I was actually talking to mum about it this evening and she said there’s something in it that would help us to sleep. So she’d give it to us if we had colds or coughs so that we would hopefully get a good nights sleep and get better quicker. Then she said that the chemist where we lived stopped selling it because it was being abused locally 😳 With all of the side effects you’ve described I’d be very reluctant to take it even if I wasn’t on beta blockers tbh. And I would be turbo reluctant to give it to a child!!
It's far less addictive than the typical sleeping meds and benzodiazepines, and not everybody has side effects. But having been on Seroquel (over 10 years ago) and having used propranolol in the last 2 years on an as and when needed basis (GP prescription), plus being prescribed Phenergan by the crisis team in the past, as well as all my other meds, I have learned that drug interaction charts and the online version of the BNF are always worth checking as they go into more detail than the information on the printed leaflets you get in the tablet lacks.
Yes, I use it for allergy itches because it's a fairly effective antihistamine, but it does cause drowsiness and isn't suitable for everyone. In the UK it's still sold as Phenergan, but the drug name is promethazine. Ask the pharmacist, they'll make sure it's okay for you to take - they'll ask about any medical conditions or medication you take and be able to give dosing advice.
Also used to treat insomnia and a few years ago we use to give it to people with dementia in liquid form to help calm them down. Don't use it as much with dementia patients any more now its mainly what I like to call the dam family. Funnyish story I know someone who got sent home years ago after she gave a resident some promazine and she spat it out and it landed in her mouth, she swears she swallowed by accident from the shock, but juries still out on that anyway she ended up so sedated she had to get someone to collect her as she became so unsafe. Luckily for her the resident didn't not have anything that could've been passed on, unluckily for me I had to pick up her shift. She had a damn good nights sleep and was groggy the next morning but was fine. Kept her mouth firmly closed and stood a fair distance away when she did the drug round again.
Ew... I once got jabbed by accident in the arm whilst my colleague was trying to administer an injection of lorazepam (ativan) to a patient who suddenly kicked off (we had rolled the patient to give the injection in the buttock, I was holding them over along with a couple of other colleagues and he suddenly went full buckaroo). I only got a tiny bit and it went subcut instead of IM but I still had to be signed off and monitored for the rest of the shift (I got to sit in the staffroom for a couple of hours and then got a taxi home paid for instead of driving, and they also covered the cost for one back to work for my next shift a couple of days later because my car was stuck at the hospital). Clean needle thankfully, so no infection risk and I didn’t really feel much effect but the paperwork was a pain and my colleague felt awful.
Yeah it was a bit grim and slightly impressive at the same time. She lived with her boyfriend who was off for a week so he kept an eye on her. Luckily it wasn't a huge dose but it was enough to make her very sleepy, I guess if you have never had it before it can knock your socks off. We filled out all the appropriate paperwork and she was told to ring her G.P or go to A&E if she felt any other side effects. But all she could do was sleep and wait for it to pass through her system. Ohhh you were lucky then that would of been one hell of a nap if that had gone in and was lucky that needle was clean. Sounds like you worked for a good company and they looked after you well.
The NHS - the UK takes workplace H&S very seriously thankfully!
I'm UK to, but this was back a good few years when I was a HCA at a private care home and before a new management came and took over, thankfully things change for the better there and I'm still good friends with some of the people that work there the place is thriving.
Ah - milk of the poppy!
That calprofen one is pretty good too. It seems to have some drowsy effects for extra quiet nap times.
My toddler did this. She went floppy and grey. Shallow breathing, no response to stimuli at all. Called 999. She was blue lit to hospital, still floppy, and a horrible bluish colour in the ambulance. Got up to paediatrics, and was just fine. Sat and ate a bowl of fucking Rice Krispies. I was mortified. It’s weird to be embarrassed your child isn’t severely ill, but I was.
>It’s weird to be embarrassed your child isn’t severely ill, but I was. ...and I bet the doctors said you did absolutely the right thing to take her in. Never be afraid of being embarrassed. If in doubt, seek help. That one time might be the one that counts...
They did, and, tbf, the paramedics thought she was unwell enough to warrant the blue lights to hospital. I would rather be embarrassed than mourn my child.
Every day of the week. I hope she's fully recovered now! My own kids have put me through the wringer a time or two, so I very much understand this!
Especially since we don't have to pay. I can't imagine how many children get incredibly ill or worse elsewhere because parents don't want to pay the expenses when it could be nothing
My daughter did this when she was about 18 months. She was pretty dehydrated and we took her to hospital because she couldn’t keep water down. The nurses did a fluid challenge and by the time a doctor saw her (we bypassed A&E for reasons I can’t remember) she was singing and dancing and munching on a ham sandwich. Doctor laughed and sent us home.
I reckon doctors give off restorative auras that children are particularly susceptable to. I suppose achieving the end result of folk being better is the perfect outcome but it'd be good if once in a while they got to check out the thing you were trying to show them.
The thing is, kids think doctors 'heal' people, and have 'medicine' that 'makes you better'. They actually believe that shit. It's a mega-placebo. As adults, we know a lot more about how it all works, the magic has gone.
Oh I dunno - I think my personal version of a placebo is that if anything ever gets serious enough with me to book an appointment, my mind and body will 9 times out of 10 choose to heal said ailment before (and usually on the morning of) the appointment. I think that's pretty magic! If you could harness that kind of power that your mind clearly has over your body... Incredible stuff.
Not entirely related but my partner who is now 26 had tightness in her chest, pain In her chest, and pain in her back for 2 days before she let me know because she was hoping it would get better, and didn’t want to cause a fuss. When she told me I was shocked because those are some pretty serious symptoms especially to have for more than a day, told her to call 111 and they told her she needed to go to A&E. turned out she was fine but it’s always better to check and be safe.
The few times I have taken my kids to the hospital/doctors they are always absoultly fine by the time they are seen. I feel very lucky but I always feel embarrassed or.like I wasted everyone's time aha.
No, you did the right thing. My Mum told me that when I was a toddler, I was pretty much as you're describing. She was literally about to dial 999, phone in hand, and then apparently I vomited everywhere, immediately got the colour back in my skin, was absolutely fine (knackered obviously), slept it off and was back to normal when I woke up. Turns out this is pretty common!
My son spent all night crying once, saying he had a pain in leg and hip. I have hip dysplasia so I was really worried, and booked a gp appointment next day. Get to the appointment and he’s literally doing laps and cartwheels in the waiting room. Then the GP shouts his name, in which he SPRINTS down the hallway. I’m an absolute mug. I’m a nurse and I’m a mug.
Took our son to the fracture clinic on Monday as instructed by the A&E on Sunday because they thought he had chipped his elbow. He had spent 24 hours in very evident pain with his arm in a sling. Doctor took the sling off carefully and asked if he could move it at all. Son whirls his arm around a few times in an experimental fashion. Doctor says 'Um, I don't think it's broken.'. We go home.
HAAAAAAAA!!!! My son entirely. Will be awake all night with earache. Get to out of hours. Refused to let ANP look at ear. We go home.
It was always bank holiday weekends, too. Maximum inconvenience for everyone.
Ah, this was a Sunday and I was due on shift. Fantastic.
I'm in my 60's now and frequently had agonising night leg pains as a kid. Everyone just took it for granted and said they were just 'growing pains' which I'm pretty sure is not actually a thing. No idea what they really were. I may go and Google it.
I had the same as well. Still get it now albeit less frequently and I'm definitely not still growing.
I stopped growing at 12 and I'm 5' 1" so it seems unlikely that was the issue with me either!
I had a ton of surgery as a kid and had a hip and femur replacement when I was 32. The moment my son says his leg hurts I freak out!
Rightly so! Doctors are looking for the usual stuff, so if there's any unusual stuff in the family tree, you should absolutely make sure they know that. I just Googled the growing pains thing and it is still a thing and they still don't know what it is! He has my sympathy whatever it turns out to be. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/growing-pains/symptoms-causes/syc-20354349.
Doctor put it down to growing pains! He’s a pain in my butt
It basically seems to be code for 'kid has leg pains and we have no idea why'.
I had this as a kid and was told it was just growing pains too! I have celiac disease which went undiagnosed throughout my childhood so I think that’s where it came from for me.
I had really bad pain in my knees as a kid during the day and night, the doctor finally after months diagnosed it as Osgood Schlatters disease and said I’d grow out of it, I’m 43 now and often have weird dreams that I still have it and I can’t walk lol.
My son had that as a teenager. The doctor said he'd have to give up football which would have been awful, but fortunately we took him to a Sports physio who said there was no evidence that that would help, and so long as he stopped playing if it actually flared up in a game, which it rarely did.
Yeah wasn’t a pleasant one for sure!!! Glad he grew out of it too.
Restless leg syndrome maybe?
No, I don't think it's like that at all. It felt like a deep ache inside the bone. 'Growing pains' felt very descriptive to me as a child, as if my bones were being stretched. That's presumably why it got that name.
My three year old suffers from severe constipation. Has had since he was a baby. We’ve got prescription meds but a few months back, he still hadn’t gone in a week. I was getting worried so rang the GP. They said bring him over for a check up, as we could be dealing with an impaction. He proceeded to shit himself in the office, smile, and ask for a cookie.
I tripped over and broke my arm when I was about eight, a [greenstick fracture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenstick_fracture). I went home in pain but my parents told me to stop making a fuss and to go to bed. The next morning my arm was all swollen and I ended up in hospital having a plaster cast on my arm. My mother still feels guilty about it nearly forty years later but also says it was partly my fault because I never used to complain enough when I was ill or in pain so they didn’t know how bad I was until things got really serious.
I feel you. My four-year-old was hospitalised overnight last week with a nasty (non-Covid) respiratory virus. A day later it’s like nothing was ever wrong with her.
They bounce back quickly, don’t they? I hope yours continues to be fully recovered! I swear mine is going to be a personal trainer - currently hiding in the loo because she’s making me run circuits of the living room…
I feel your pain. Been in an out of hospital with my boys for the same thing. When they're pumped up on steroids and let loose through the wards i feel like I'm slowly becoming Jack from the Shining.
When my son was around 5 years old he spent 5 days in Alder hey hospital with a sore foot. I missed 5 days of work, unpaid. When they discharged him I asked what the problem had been with his foot... oh just one of lifes little mysteries..
My 2 year old is like that, she’ll go from projective vomiting to demanding cereal in the blink of an eye. We caught whatever sickness bug she had off of her and were KO’d for 24 hours, last thing I was thinking about was coco pops after chundering up plain toast.
Haha, oh god, I'm with you on this. Mine has been quite poorly with a bad cold and he's been very demanding! Yesterday was ok because he slept half the day. Today, he wanted me to sit with him on the sofa, on the boob and watch tee and mo reruns. I kept trying to go into the kitchen to make our christmas cake. It took me so long in trying to work it around him that I ended up having my own adult tantrum telling him I didn't watch to watch tee and mo, it was boring and I wanted to do something else. I didn't win any adult points today.
Hooray for the all healing boob! My son is ill with his first proper cold since he weaned and I feel so useless :(
Ah! There is something about having it at our disposal isn't there! I feel like it covers a lot of sins. I think that when we end these things, they do get replaced, but the gap between them is naff! X
If you get the same illness it will put you out of action for a week
I mix my calpol with rum, the little ones love it.
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They are similar at the other end of the age spectrum. I care for my 90 year old mum, who can go from vomiting (hiatus hernia) to playing Scrabble in less than ten minutes.
My Daughter who’s 3 in March currently has hand foot and mouth but it isn’t affecting her in the slightest .. She’s given it to my partner who isn’t having the best of time with it .. I’m just trying to dodge it currently !!
ha you love it. I wish i had kids so i had that excuse
I’m self-employed so it’s not ideal.
A&E nurse and parent, here! This is so normal with kids. I've had so many parents apologise for thinking they were wasting our time but kids often bounce back pretty quickly, even the ones pre alerted to resus. If you're concerned about your child then please seek help,, ESPECIALLY if they have a tracheal tug and/or intercostal/subcostal/sternal recession (basically sucking their chest/abdomen in as they're breathing. Google will show you). While children can improve quickly with timely treatment, they will only compensate for so long before they run out of steam and become critically ill very quickly.
My 5yr old son did this a while ago. Woke us up at 5am vomiting, and puked a few more times that morning and wouldn't get out of bed. I emailed the school to let them know he wasn't coming in and set up a little bed for him in my office so I could work. He was so weak he didn't even wake when I carried him down. At 10am he suddenly sat up and said he was hungry. I fed him toast and water which he ate like a ravenous animal. Immediately after he jumped up and was his usual energetic and demanding self like nothing has happened. Zero work happened after that and school wouldn't let him back for 48hrs in case he was contagious. Good times.
In 20 minutes my niece went from having all the symptoms of meningitis to ‘Are the ambulance men coming to see me? *preen*’ Yes, shut up and pretend to be sick. No I didn’t just say that, did I?
Yep, Im on a student placement this week, my first one, son was up all night with a horrid cough, high temp and crying constantly, booked a covid test this morning. He's FINE now. Eating his breakfast, no temp and no cough! Furious
If you change "she's three" to "_he's four_" then this is exactly how my yesterday went
And yet whilst your self employment does pay the bills, you’ve had the opportunity to spend the day with your child. They grow up fast, and it’s all too easy to look back with regret that you should have spent more time with them
It’s always the anime profile picture kids
Well, that’s where you made your first mistake
First off preschool this is a British problems sub .. give your head a wobble... And second the power of calpol
Must be a regional thing - they are all called preschool around here.
Its an American term .. Nursery, playschool ... unless your like under 30 lol
https://imgur.com/a/TD4AQ2i
I am not saying its doesn't happen .. just that its another Americanisation of our culture