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Original poster

to think that this takes the default doc response of "it's probably a virus" to a whole new level

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emkana · 19/08/2010 20:50

Monday lunchtime ds fell from his Trip Trap high chair - I'm not quite sure how, as I had my back to him, but when I turned round he was on his back on the floor, totally dazed for a while, then crying inconsolably for ages, then falling asleep - which is very unusual for him (he is four). Woke him up after an hour, he was still very subdued and quiet, then he perked up a bit, to then complain about a headache. Gave him Calpol - he projectile vomited three times. We took him straight down to the out of hours doc - who told us it was probably a gastric virus and that in fact ds probably fell ill and therefore fell of his chair! Stunned, but on a silly level wanting to believe him, we went home. Later that night ds woke up and threw up several times again - we took him to A & E and they kept him in for 24 hour monitoring, diagnosis - moderate concussion. Thankfully he's fine now.

All this happened in Germany btw, so it's not just English docs who rely on the "it's prob a virus" line...

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Original poster
emkana · 19/08/2010 20:56

oh come on somebody share in my outrage?

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Sidge · 19/08/2010 21:01

It's a bit of a reach to suggest that a child with a confirmed fall and probable head injury coincidentally has a viral illness that made him unwell with classic head injury signs!

Glad he's well now.

EccentricaGallumbits · 19/08/2010 21:01

take 2 paracetamol and plenty of fluids.

EccentricaGallumbits · 19/08/2010 21:01

and it is august after all.

EccentricaGallumbits · 19/08/2010 21:02

i want to be a GP on £100k a year. I'd be good i tell you.

glad DS is OK now.

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emkana · 19/08/2010 21:03

Yes yes I could be a GP Wink

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Sukie1971 · 19/08/2010 21:04

A four year old in a high chair? In England he'd be starting school in a fortnight! Yes, Im outraged!

Sorry, that was mean. Hope your DS is well recovered now.

AndTheHorseYouRodeInOn · 19/08/2010 21:05

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emkana · 19/08/2010 21:06

It's a TripTrap which is kind of meant to be a chair for them until they turn ten or so... which does seem silly, I admit.

Ds will start school in two weeks' time, as we actually live in the UK, were only visiting in Germany.

Oh and ds has dwarfism so is only the size of a two year old, is he allowed to sit on a high chair then? Wink

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HecateQueenOfWitches · 19/08/2010 21:09

I know what you mean.

We had the doctor out to my grandad. It's a bug, she said.

3 days later he was in hospital. One scan later it's cancer and a month on he has only days left to live. Sad

bug indeed.

She must have printed her bachelor of medicine or whatever the hell it is degree off the internet for £9.99

I know she couldn't have saved him even if she hadn't walked in, said it's a bug, and walked out but I still want to go down there and grab her and shake her while yelling BUG? BUG? BUUUUUUG? in her face.

sanielle · 19/08/2010 21:10

No he was wrong. It is always krieslauf or Föhn in Germany not a virusGrin

Sukie1971 · 19/08/2010 21:12

I did apologise, but in my defence, you did not mention his dwarfism, just that a 4 year old was in a high chair.

Im in a judgy pants mood, due to lack of sleep, and my sense of humour goes a bit awry when im like this so apologies again.

I didnt know what a trip trap was, so googled it.... they fit a 10 year old? Jeez...

abbierhodes · 19/08/2010 21:14

My dad was offered pile cream, initially, for what turned out to be bowel cancer. Without being examined.

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emkana · 19/08/2010 21:16

sukie, it's fine, of course you weren't to know about ds's dwarfism, even though I really think life's too short to judge about a four year old sitting in a high chair... but each to their own!

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Animation · 19/08/2010 21:17

What a rubbish Doctor. Hmm

Alouiseg · 19/08/2010 21:19

Yes, I was sent on my way by the gp 3 times because it was probably a virus.

It was Leukaemia.

abbierhodes · 19/08/2010 21:21

Emkana, I wondered why your four year old was in a highchair too though. It's not necessarily judgy, it's just unusual.

belgo · 19/08/2010 21:21

My six year old still uses the Tripp trapp - you can adjust them to fit all sizes. Even adults can sit on them.

What a stupid doctor. You were right to take him to A&E. Glad he is alright.

mathanxiety · 19/08/2010 21:24

I was told that the doctor was basing his diagnosis partly on my 'ethnicity' (Irish) and partly on my liver function tests; he had concluded that I was an alcoholic with cirrhosis, probably an ulcer, and a very serious denial problem.

Turned out I had gallstones. Loads and loads of them in fact, one stuck in my bile duct (hence the occasional episode of crippling pain not normally associated with alcoholism).

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emkana · 19/08/2010 21:25

It's fine, really, it never occurred to me that anybody would find it unusual, in Germany virtually every child sits on a TripTrap and for many many many years - it's not unusual there at all, in fact it's very very common! So it's just cultural differences for you.

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traceybath · 19/08/2010 21:29

Emkana - my 6 year old also still sits on his tripp trapp and I sometimes do too Smile

Dr sounds most odd and I'd have been annoyed too.

LOL at Eccentricus.

NonnoMum · 19/08/2010 21:30

Not a doctor

But I do have a Tripp Trapp.

And I sit on it quite a lot cos my 2 year old insists on sitting in a "big girls chair".

And she has a bit of a virus.

and my one year old is teething.

And my DH is away.

But, luckily, I haven't had to visit A and E recently.

Meglet · 19/08/2010 21:32

trip traps are designed for up to adults IIRC. You just change the seat height.

Your GP sounds pants. Glad your DS is ok now.

abbierhodes · 19/08/2010 21:34

Ah, see, I'm picturing a highchair that you'd have to wedge my three year old in with a shoehorn!

LaDiDaDi · 19/08/2010 21:37

Sorry to go against the grain here but I don't think that your GP was being unreasonable, it must have been unusual for your ds to fall from his chair and a fall of that height in a child of his age would be very, very unusual to cause a head injury.
I'm not sure how/what investigations your hospital did to back up their diagnoisis so to me either of them could be right.

Pleased your ds is well though.

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