I took my little girl to the doctors today she is 8 months and has had a pretty bad cold and temp etc for about 5 days. We tried to call our out of hours doctors a few nights ago but couldnt get through so we called NHS direct who told us dont worry shes fine just give her calpol for a few days etc etc which is what we did.
well she still wasnt better today so I decided to take her to the GPs anyway. The gp told us she has quite a nasty chest infection and then told us NEVER to bother with NHS direct if we need a doctor and cant get through to the out of hours and its for a child just go straight to A and E. She said that she has seen too many children get really ill after phonecalls to NHS direct!.
So we have antibiotics etc but we have also been told hat if her temp goes up anymore we take her up to A and E straight away.
Is this reasonable - I would have felt like I was over reacting but now Im not so sure??
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fernie3 · 16/10/2009 13:04
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