Am I unreasonable to not take daughter to hospital?

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My daughter has a balloon of a hand. It's extremely bruised and swollen. However, she has no problem moving it and just slight pain when it's proded at. Absolutely no pain moving it.

My mum thinks I should take her and she will have to end up taking her

Opinions please?

Take her!

how did it get injured? I could imagine if it was me waiting until morning. Why keep a little kid up at night if you don't have to? They'll probably do nothing tonite to make it better, too.

What happened?

She's not a little kid? She's 11. It got hit in car door. She's not in any pain. Not saying it hurts or anything. It just looks bad.

What did she do to it to cause the swelling?

A few months ago I developed a sore, swollen finger which started to get red. I went to the pharmacist in Boots the next morning as it was a Saturday and she told me very firmly to contact the OOH doctor that day and that it wouldn’t wait until Monday in case the infection spread.

How old is your daughter and how did it get like that in the first place?

Have you tried calling 101? You may get an out of hours gp appointment?

It depends, how did it happen?

Loss of feeling can occur in serious injury

Take your CHILD to a and e!!

She can feel her hand. It's just not very painful.

If she can move it, it doesn’t mean it’s not broken. Have you asked her if it hurts because I’d be increadibly surprised if it didn’t based on your description alone

It hurts when touched.

X post, lots.

I think I'd take her tomorrow if it's an explained injury that isn't causing pain.

She has trapped a hand and has massive swelling. Why wouldn’t you get it checked? I would probably go for a minor injuries unit if one close by but I certainly wouldn’t ignore it.

Come on, OP. Just take your daughter to get her hand checked out.

If you are concerned then take her to minor injuries unit tomorrow. She doesn't need to be seen in a&e during the night shift for that.

Straight to hospital. All key signs of a fracture your describing their OP. The ones that aren’t screaming are the ones to get checked out.

I’m not a doctor but my Bil is a consultant Surgeon. I watched him assess my step daughters very very swollen hand in our kitchen a few months ago. He was satisfied that so long as she had full movement of the wrist and didgets it was fine.

My main rule, if your concerned enough to ask the question you should go :-) x

If it’s broken what can a & e do? I’d give her some calpol and wait and sew

*see not sew

Maybe it doesn’t hurt because she’s damaged nerves or can’t feel it due to a shock reaction - or any number of things that I don’t know because I’m not a doctor - but if one of my children’s hands looked like a ‘balloon’ then yeah I’d be sealing medical advice ASAP

Take her!

It could develop into sepsis. Take her ASAP.

Take her and post pic of balloon hand poor kid.