Do your kids do this if you seek medical attention for them???

[ShutUpPeppa]

My kids have a long-standing habit of if you go to the doctors they magically are fine. I’ll been to A&E with a child who after days of crippling stomach pain magically was suddenly fine, after I had to carry them in.

Light hearted, obviously I’m glad this happens, but dd no. 5 (age 2) really has pulled an amazing one. Had to share my disbelief. At 11am she was shaking with rigours quite violently, semi-responsive with her eyes half closed, temp 39.8. Feet cold, hands cold. Rash on thighs, vomiting meds. I was starting to really worry! Looked scary ill. Rang GP, considered A&E.

4 hours later? She’s eating a yogurt, having a dance with her sister and bouncy happy.

I did it to my mum and dad on holiday when I was around 5, had wind pains but apparently I was in such a state they thought it was my appendix or something serious, got to the hospital, had a few farts and I was fine 😳😂

My kids have done it a few times, don't worry doctors are used to it.

An older female GP once told me she though so many children were better when they got to the doctors because they had been taken out into the fresh air. That keeping them in wasn’t doing them any good.

Was your daughter ok Op. What was it?

Yup. My son hurt his foot a few months ago, looked fine but he kept crying hysterically when he tried to walk on it so obviously I took him to A&E. The minute we booked in he started running around, jumping off chairs etc. Three hours of waiting and a needless X-ray to be told that there was nothing wrong with him - felt like a right idiot.

Ive been there. Dd is 5 started when she was a few months old, crying all night, get to the docs and shes happy as can be.
When dd2 was about a year came out in a bad rash rang 111 you best go to hospital, get there and shes perked up. I do nothing but apologise to doctors when i take my girls lol

Yup I walked (a bloody long way) to the Drs with dd more than once for her to recover by the time I got her there so I started walking her around the block first before I rang in

Oh yes. One of mine had an awful case of diarrhoea that was on and off for weeks and weeks. Rotavirus I think the GP said. Anyway, as she was only about 12 months and they were worried about dehydration, she was eventually admitted to hospital for tests. On arrival at hospital the diarrhoea stopped immediately, never to return.

When I was about 10 we had a big dog that was prone to jumping up, and once bashed me in the face and gave me a nosebleed that didn't stop. After 4 hours of blood everywhere my parents gave in and took me to A&E. Guess what?

Just as a complete reverse.
I had toddler dd2 running round the surgery and being unbelievably cute to all who would engage her.
Meanwhile I was trying to get the receptionist to find her an urgent appointment with a consultant. Receptionist obviously thought it was all high drama.
4 day later I had to call in for a letter and as she handed it over she asked after dd. Yes, I said, she was referred on for emergency surgery to regional hospital, and will be operated on tomorrow.
I have never seen anyone look as surprised as she did. Oh, she said, so she was actually ill?

I nearly hit her.

Not my children but my mum.
Her dad took her to the doctors at age 15 months as she still wouldn’t walk. Turned out the appointment was all they needed as she took her first steps in the drs room - my mum apparently got down from my granddads lap and wobbled over to play with the scales
They reckoned she had been secretly toddling about behind their backs but when anyone was around would just sit and wail at people to bring her things. She’s always been a bit of a diva

DD (1 year) was blue-lighted into hospital at about 7am as she wouldn't wake up. Blood glucose of 2 (low) and temp of 41c. Chest x-ray showed pneumonia.

By 3pm she was walking round the ward yelling "hello" at all the staff.

Every time. The cat does it too. £70 at the vets, totally better by the time we get home. I think he feigns illness to have a jaunt out in the car.

Yep. DS fell down a concrete step at grandparents, bashed his head. He was ok at first, then got really drowsy and clingy. I'm a doctor myself and freaked out as I've looked after some really awful paediatric head injury cases. Took him to A&E, he took one look at the play house in the children's waiting area and toddled off happy as anything. When we finally saw the doctor I felt like a total fraud and was babbling "I know he looks fine now but I need someone else to check him, if I'd seen him as a patient when he was drowsy earlier I'd have had him in the CT scanner straight away..." (he did not need a CT scan).

@ladybee28
"Sometimes it seems all my immune system needs is a quick sit in a doctor's waiting room"

Love this idea so much

Mine had a miraculous recovery from croup between A&E and being admitted to the children's ward. Turns out steroids, a hospital dose by weight of Calpol, a nap and a few hours of hanging around reduce a child who's exerting huge effort to breathe and has stopped weightbearing into one who has an extremely mild case of croup who was clearly wasting their time.

Then a couple of days later, the steroids wore off, and she was back to very poorly again.

Yes. Had to take a 3 month old DS to A&E for wheezing. Naturally DH was out of the country, so had to call over a friend for the sleeping toddler. All the way I'm driving, trying to keep an ear on his breathing. Get to A&E still a little wheezy. See the triage nurse and he goes into smiley flirt mode. Naturally by the time he was seen an hour or two later, he was on perfect form.
At least it was on his record when he had night coughing issues as a toddler and he got inhalers.

DS1 had CMPA identified at 12m. A couple of weeks later, we saw the dietician. He suddenly thrashed on the floor screaming for a few minutes then released a proper man-sized fart. The dietician just looked at him and said "soya intolerance"

Yes, my children have this skill too.
If there is something visible that I've made the appointment for I've taken to taking a photo of it as evidence. That way I can show the photo to the doctor in the appointment even if the child appears to have made a miraculous recovery.

Yep. DS1 (then 14 months old) was grisly, off his food, and a bit lethargic so took him to GP, he seemed fine when we got there but she did all the relevant checks for the symptoms we listed and we were told that he was probably coming down with a virus. DM is also a GP, and checked him over that evening. He seemed a bit under the weather but nothing drastic.

2 days later we took DS1 to A&E. He'd been breathing really fast and seemed a bit (strong emphasis on bit) lethargic. Perked right up as soon as we got there, he was sitting on my lap, clapping his hands, laughing, playing row row your boat.

Five minutes later we were swarmed with doctors, and we found out shortly after he was in heart failure. A special cardiac team from the nearest (2 hours away) Children’s heart unit collected us and blue lighted us to the nearest children's intensive care.

They did all the tests at 3am, he was diagnosed with two heart defects, TAPVC (pulmonary veins connected to superior vena cava instead of the left atrium) and a VSD (hole in heart). We were transferred again at 2pm, this time to the hospital with the heart unit, and he was in open heart surgery by 7pm.

We found out later that it was the ironically VSD that had kept him alive and asymptomaric all that time, as babies with TAPVC normally turn blue at birth or shortly after.

Two weeks after surgery, we all went home, and all is well 4 years on 😊 he's still very dramatic.

(NC as many people who know me, know about DS, and don't want my other posts to be public knowledge)

He was also eating a banana in the PICU 8 hours after his major surgery. We're still not quite sure how.

DD started in utero. Went to be monitored for reduced movements, press release his button when you feel baby move. Well baby did not like the monitoring belt and kept moving all the way through the test.

My dd was the same. She hated that monitor and would wriggle like mad every time I had to go on it

Paediatrician here. We’re used to it! That’s why working with children is so unpredictable and fun!

They pipe happy hormones through the waiting room - only rational explanation! I now photograph or video if there is something to be seen. They never perform for the doctor.

My dd1 has never been to the normal doctors... it's always two in the morning on a bloody weekend that she decides to be ill. Off to OOH which is a 35 min drive away... get there and fine. Every. Single. Time.

Glad to hear it’s not mine.

I’d mentally blocked out completely the time DD had a huge seizure, blue, went on and on. Went into resus and raised her to the bed and she went mental, she had a phobia of high beds without sides and she let everyone know. All colour returned and after a nap she was walking around getting attention from all she could. The doctors were standing there with emergency medication, talking fo intubation... everyone was a bit surprised and nearly jumped out their skins to be told NOOOOO BEEEDDDDDDDD!!!!

Yup. Was a regular visitor to A&E with DS1 & have had a few of these. A few that stick out:
When he was around 18mth. Was giving him a morning bath and notice and very large lump, about the size of a golf ball, on his thigh and was a bit lethargic. Managed to get a same day doctors appointment. GP took one look and advised us to head to A&E. Told us he would call ahead to let them know we were on our way. Got to hospital and triage nurse starting talking about seeing if the oncologist was around. This had me in almost hysterics, thinking my baby might have cancer. Paediatric consultant came to do some test while the waited for oncology. Asked me if he had any vaccinations recently. He did but it had been 5 days previously. Hand held scanner was brought out. Turned out to be a hematoma, ie a bloody bruise. By this time DS is having agreat time with the nurses fussing over him. Sent home and a stiff drink for me.

Another time when he was 9, he was a bit under the weather over Easter. At first, I just assumed it was just a virus but then he started to develop a rash and it started to spread rapid. Phoned NHS 24, who advised straight to A&E. Triage nurse took one look at him and then rushed him through to resus. Room filled with doctors, son being attached to monitors, the works. Consultant came in and told me they were concerned it could be menigococcal septicemia. All tests come back negative and rash miraculously vanishes. Turned out to be a simple virus. Kept in for 2 days just in case. DS having the time of his life as we were put into a private room and he had full control of the tv in his room and, because it was Easter in the childrens hospital, was given several Easter Eggs by the hospital.

DS2 decided to be spider man and jumped off his high sleeper. Landing wasn't great and declared that he broke his ankle and couldn't walk or put weight on it. Went to A&E, carrying him as he couldn't walk. Took through to cubicles and waiting on x-ray. Radio was on and a song came on that DS2 loved. Got up and started dancing! Really busting some moves!
Funnily enough, he did not have a broken ankle, just minor soft tissue damage.

My ds, when he was 2 had bad croup. Oxygen was low, breathing sounded like darth vader. Had to be admitted to hospital and have sabutimol and oxygen therapy.
But, he was charging round the play area with all the other kids.
The doctor remarked to he sister “I don’t get it, I’ve checked his sats three times, he should be lying down, he shouldn’t be charging around playing, it’s just not possible”
The sister had to say “I’ve seen some children who are seriously ill and they just play, children are different to adults”