my friend has just phoned and her DS is in hospital with suspected meningitis, hes only 6 months old and was 4 weeks prem so quite small,
she said his head is swollen and the docs say they want to do one of the above but are reluctant as his fontalle is still very swollen
he has temp & rash
apparantly they arent 100% it is meningitis but are treating it as such and the lumbar thing should determine it?? also she was saying something about a viral infection or viral meningitis?
sorry if this doesnt make sense, my heads a bit reeling. i think thats all she said, she was upset so i couldnt grasp it all.
will he be ok??
oh she said he may be out in a week, but that sounds unlikely to me - then again im not sure what she was on about and didnt really want to make her explain it when she was upset
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whats a lumbar (sp?) punch? (worrying meningitis phone call can you translate?)
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kittylette · 27/02/2007 09:31
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