To take DS to a&e?

[endofmytether88]

Posting here for traffic.

DS(7) is we just about to play a game before bed. He said his heart was beating fast. This was 30 mins ago and his heart rate is still through the roof. We've tried deep breathing, drinking water, listening to his videos but it's not slowing. He doesn't feel sick or anything.

What should I do? Would it be OTT to go to hospital?

lol true, all the sympathy and then disappearing so people worry

Or maybe she’s in hospital with her unwell child?

She's probably in hospital or asleep from being there all night.

Who gives their 7 year old coffee?

Thank you, @Rosscameasdoody . I just downloaded Fibricheck.

Good luck, @endofmytether88 ! I hope you are in A&E with your son; I am sure he will be fine, but if there is an issue, doctors will be able to diagnose it if they see him during an episode..

What's the latest, OP? Hope all is well x

Someone who is human? Makes mistakes as they... like everyone else.... stumble through motherhood?

Hope your boy is OK op.

Are you hard of reading or comprehension?

OP usually has a hot chocolate from Mc Donald’s, not a coffee.

Her son, thinking it was the usual hot chocolate in the cup, downed it.

When you say listening to his videos, what kind of videos? Does he have anxiety? That can cause high heart rate. Hopefully you are at/have been to the hospital and your ds is doing ok 🤞🤞

Hope you boy is feeling better now op

Hope everything is sorted now but remember A&E is there for just such an occasion, yes they're busy but ours has everything from nurse, GP right up to emergency medical staff and you're triaged at the front door.

That is incorrect and dangerous advice.

please mums don’t let your child’s heart rate get to 200!

Awful advice you've recieved from here....you should have taken him straight to a&e, his heart is tachycardia. It needs monitored. Is he ok

I don't understand why people post on mumsnet and not call 111 with serious health related issues. Makes me think its not a real situation but more a cry for attention and the OP is bored/ upset/
Lonely at home

Sometimes as a parent you second guess yourself, you don’t want to waste NHS resources if it’s nothing and you are just being anxious and you may not have people you can talk to in real life, so you come on a parenting forum and ask other parents. Half the time posters make their minds up as soon as they’ve written it down and read it back really. What I don’t understand is why someone always has to post a shitty comment like yours on these threads. If you don’t want to offer advice why not just move on to a different thread? Why insult the OP who was just looking for advice on a parenting forum?

A&E threads always end up in trending because there's a sense of real-time urgency and people get genuinely invested. However the majority never come back to update anyway...presumably because they didn't go to hospital on the end and there's nothing to report.

ED.

The amount of people who don't know how to count a pulse rate is alarming.

Teakitten

You have no idea if anyone on here is a parent as you say it is negligent caring to rely / seek medical advice from strangers on the internet that are unverified. I say this as a child safeguarding professional.

As a parent it is natural to second guess your self - any parent / carer in care of a child should know how to safeguard them. The NHS provides very clear advice on seeking medical help via their services.

Please check these rather than spout rubbish about people seeking help from stranger on an internet forum

Of course you a child safeguarding professional so your word is the only one that matters. You don’t just sound like another stranger on an internet forum spouting rubbish at all. And I don’t need to check the NHS, I didn’t ask for medical advice.

Chocolate has a significant amount of caffeine in it - that + a lot of sugar has quite the effect on little systems - some bodies more sensitive to it than others.

As DS has an episode the night before the coffee the two things may not be related.

Hope everything is okay OP x

At 11 yrs old my daughter had a full on gasping for breath, heart pounding, dizzy episode whilst playing an exciting video game. I rang for an ambulance ( 16 years ago) and they said classic panic attack brought on by the game! I wonder if it was the excitement of the game for this little lad? Hope op returns and tells us he's OK.

@endofmytether88
Hope everything's ok

My child heart beat like this. It was a heart defect