Please help, should I take him to hospital?

[ohnopleasenotthis]

My neighbours have just knocked and told us that our 14yo son was unconscious on the ground outside our house - we rushed out and he's clearly been drinking HUGE amounts of alcohol he's wet himself, he's now regained consciousness and vomited copiously, he can't stand unaided and he's barely able to talk. Is also being quite aggressive and wont let his dad bring him into the house. Not able to tell us how much he's had or what it was.

Obviously he's in shit so deep he'll probably never get out but should we take him to hospital? DH wants to put him to bed (not sure how!) but I'm worried about choking on vomit and/or alcohol poisoning.

TriciaH87 have you read the whole thread he has bene seen by paramedics!.

Having read thread fully thank god you got him checked out. Don't worry about ss they will see you as a concerned parent of a typical teenager. If you had not got help until something happened in the night that's when you would have needed to worry as they would wonder what your hiding. As for a bit of mess that having kids off for almost 7 weeks.

@TriciaH87

Maybe read the thread? Paramedics have been and assessed him about 3 pages back

@TriciaH87 RTFT before going off on one. It's moved on after 6 pages.

Good that paramedics came
It’s a tough call, I think the problem is not his age but that he might have had something other than alcohol

Friend stopped to help a drunk guy recently and it turned out he’d a load of ketamine. So she thought she’d stopped to help a drunk....very good of her, I’m afraid I no longer do that.

Ignore the scare mongering about ss, I’m still waiting for them to contact me after I had similar with dd about 10 years ago, and I took her to A&E. I took her not because she had been unconscious, but because she has a tiny frame and I was concerned about her liver. They did one for a couple of hours and she was discharged. The little bugger wasn’t even hungover!
She didn’t get out for a very long time.
Keep doing what you’re doing- amd you weren’t wrong to have her checked out by Paramedics [flower]

Have a bucket by him with a big towel underneath, DS was sick in his sleep so a towel under the pillow. My DS did this a couple of years ago, his dad picked him up from a friends he puked in the car, we put him in the shower and ran it over him for quite a time. We both checked on him all night. His much older bro. who couldnt stop laughing filmed the shower scene to show on his 18th.

When similar happened to ds (fed huge amounts of alcohol on a sports team night out, a sort of hazing thing) he too was checked and dh slept next to his bed all night and we also gave him a sports hydration tablet in water to sip during the night and thankfully he was ok. We also took a photo of him in his unwell state to show him the next day. He was shocked.

I’ve been there, op. My then 15 yr old ds had a drinking party with two of his friends. He and one friend were admitted over night to the hospital on drips. Them staff were all very kind and reassuring to me. I ended up sobbing buckets in the hospital car park.

SS were never notified. Nurse told me this is not an uncommon teenage incident.

Hope you are coping ok 💐

Yes.
You can't be sure that the unconsciousness was alcohol related, firstly- he may have been injured while out and not able to say.

An ambulance was called, they attended and left all in 30 minutes, that’s amazing for a non urgent call.

It presumably depends on where you live. On the only occasion I’ve called an ambulance they arrived within 5 minutes, assessed and treated the patient and were away within 20 mins. They were pleasant, friendly and reassuring that I had done the right thing.

Oops- didn't read the thread! Glad someone has looked him over and hope he doesn't suffer too much in the morning!

Surprised they did not take him to hospital to monitor his oxygen levels and put him on a saline drip. This would certainly lessen his hangover tomorrow.

Hospitals are quite rightly not in the business of lessening hangovers. They have more important stuff to deal with. He deserves to feel like death for a couple of days. Perhaps it will teach him to not be so stupid again.

‘It's not a WASTE of an ambulance ffs. How were the parents supposed to know if he was raging drunk or had taken something? We are not all doctors’

Initially it wasn’t no, but afterwards with not needing any medical attention of course it was a waste of ambulance time.

Teenagers get drunk regularly. Why would SS become involved?

Surprised they did not take him to hospital to monitor his oxygen levels and put him on a saline drip. This would certainly lessen his hangover tomorrow.

Hospital is for people who need it. A saline drip to minimise a hangover is not a necessary medial procedure.

OP, I sat up all night once with my 17yo, holding back the hair while he puked in a bucket because he was too pissed for me to try and get him upstairs. I have sips or water and made sure he stayed on his side the whole night. It was horrendous but a lesson learned it was over a year ago, he is now 18, and no further alcohol has been touched

Make sure he's in the recovery position OP even though you are checking him every 5 mins.

An ambulance was called, they attended and left all in 30 minutes, that’s amazing for a non urgent call

Yep. Amazing it is. Our NHS don't really get the credit they deserve. I have had an ambulance at my house for a non urgent call (broken arm, and circumstances dictated an ambulance the right call that particular day) in less than 10 minutes. I have had paramedics in, checked the vitals and out the door within that 30 minute time you mentioned above. Yes, that absolutely are AMAZING. You only ever hear the shit on forums.

Oh dear!! Naughty boy....

To be honest I doubt SS will be interested. Teenagers have always and will always manage to get their hands on alcohol when still underage. Hopefully the hangover will put him off doing this again anytime soon.....

Hope he's okay.

He needs a drip. He is too young

He needs a drip. He is too young

Sorry didn't see that the things evolved since the first post. Severe alcohol poisoning of a child would need to be treated but I see that it was decided otherwise

Take him but make sure he doesn't kick off in the car and cause an accident.

Sorry this is shit, and his friends are doubly shit.

Sorry i meant strap him in the back with one of you and the other driving or something in case he starts getting aggressive or showing up (I'd load a few old towels quickly into the car and bottles of water.

Can I just please add: please don't always presume drunken behaviour in adults or teenagers is alcohol or drugs. It could be a severe hypo from diabetes which can show very similar symptoms. I think ambulance calling was the right thing to do 100% .
I hope your son is ok.