heasue2003

Thought I would share this with you all. My son is going on 8
months. About three weeks ago he started to run a high temp…. 103.5
after Tylenol and Motrin. I would usually take him to our
pediatrician about 25 miles from where we live, but we were snowed
in. I made an appointment with a Dr I knew at our local McFarland
clinic. The Dr. diagnosed him with the flu and told me to wait it
out. I took Brandon back to the Dr.s a second time (still snowed in)
because he was getting congested. Same diagnoses and promises of a
recovery real soon plus a prescription for an antihistamine with
codeine. I was concerned about giving my son the codeine. He
guaranteed me that it was fine. I took him back a third time (all in
a week or so time) because I wanted to make sure that Brandon wasn't
getting pneumonia. He told me everything looked great and that I
should be giving him the codeine to help him sleep at night. I had
only been giving it to him when he seemed really distressed and we
had been up for a while trying to get him to sleep. Anyways. Then a
few days later (cough mostly gone, fever lower.) Brandon develops
pink eye. Mind you I never once took my son our daughter out of the
house during that week. I think Brandon got pink eye from poor hand
washing on the Dr.s part. Soooo, by this time the roads are clear,
my daughter is complaining of and earache and I make an appointment
for her to be seen by our Pediatrician and ask the Dr. to look at
Brandon's eyes. Chelsea has two ear infections. He looked at Brandon
eyes…. Pink eye. He looked in his left ear….. severe ear infection,
in his right her……… ear infection. The pediatrician thinks that my
son never had the flu, but had an upper respiratory infection that
lead to ear infections that was missed three times by our local
Dr.!!!! So, this whole time I have been sedating my son because I
thought he was uncomfortable from the flu when what his real problem
was an ear infection! Very Very disturbing.


Ladies, listen to your instincts! I didn't feel right about the
codeine or the local Dr.

Heather

badolbilz

I always feel so hesitant to go to the doctor's office for me or the
girls. It always seems like everything is just a guess and I feel like I
could probably get just as much information off the internet or from
some of my own medical books. I had tendonitis in my foot last spring
and the nurse practitioner told me that because I was nursing I should
take frequent, high doses of Tylenol because at that amount it would
have an anti-inflamitory effect. She said I shouldn't take Advil, which
IS an anti-inflamitory, because of my nursing. That's just ridiculous.
If one Tylenol doesn't have the ability to bring down swelling due to
the very nature of its ingredients, a whole bottleful isn't going to cut
it either. Besides, if Advil is so bad for babies, why do they make
Infant's Advil???

Question: What do you call the person who placed last on their medical
exams?

Answer: Doctor.

Heidi

heasue2003 wrote:

>Thought I would share this with you all. My son is going on 8
>months. About three weeks ago he started to run a high temp&. 103.5
>after Tylenol and Motrin. I would usually take him to our
>pediatrician about 25 miles from where we live, but we were snowed
>in. I made an appointment with a Dr I knew at our local McFarland
>clinic. The Dr. diagnosed him with the flu and told me to wait it
>out. I took Brandon back to the Dr.s a second time (still snowed in)
>because he was getting congested. Same diagnoses and promises of a
>recovery real soon plus a prescription for an antihistamine with
>codeine. I was concerned about giving my son the codeine. He
>guaranteed me that it was fine. I took him back a third time (all in
>a week or so time) because I wanted to make sure that Brandon wasn't
>getting pneumonia. He told me everything looked great and that I
>should be giving him the codeine to help him sleep at night. I had
>only been giving it to him when he seemed really distressed and we
>had been up for a while trying to get him to sleep. Anyways. Then a
>few days later (cough mostly gone, fever lower.) Brandon develops
>pink eye. Mind you I never once took my son our daughter out of the
>house during that week. I think Brandon got pink eye from poor hand
>washing on the Dr.s part. Soooo, by this time the roads are clear,
>my daughter is complaining of and earache and I make an appointment
>for her to be seen by our Pediatrician and ask the Dr. to look at
>Brandon's eyes. Chelsea has two ear infections. He looked at Brandon
>eyes&. Pink eye. He looked in his left ear&.. severe ear infection,
>in his right her&&& ear infection. The pediatrician thinks that my
>son never had the flu, but had an upper respiratory infection that
>lead to ear infections that was missed three times by our local
>Dr.!!!! So, this whole time I have been sedating my son because I
>thought he was uncomfortable from the flu when what his real problem
>was an ear infection! Very Very disturbing.
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>Ladies, listen to your instincts! I didn't feel right about the
>codeine or the local Dr.
>
>Heather
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