111 guy told me to give DD Ibuprofen with chickenpox wtf??

[ARRGHHHHHxxxxx]

Cut a long story short.

DD has severe chickenpox. Has temp, needed advice so called 111. Spots started showing Wednesday 2 days ago.

Spoke to a lady, who took details said another person was gonna call me. Another lady called and said my DD needs to be seen as she requested photos so I sent them. She said someone will call me to be seen. A guy rung and this part of the convo went like this.

111 guy: Have you given Calpol
Me: yes
111 guy: what about Ibuprofen
Me: ibuprofen?
111 guy: yes
Me: you can't give that to a child with chicken pox
111 guy: erm yes you can depends on the stage
Me: I'm not giving her ibuprofen I know not to give a child it for chickenpox, it states it on the NHS website.

Imagine if this was a first time mum not knowing what was right and what isn't. I'm fuming.

Where are you getting that from? I'm a nurse and used to work for NHS 24 (Scotland). Call operators answer the initial call then refer to a nurse or doctor if it's a situation that's outwith their scope of practice.

Exactly 😂🤣

At the same time a few other sources on Google were all saying the same and on here too,

It doesmt matter what the guys job was. Why do people think it does?

Course it blooming matters!

The risk from ibuprofen and chicken pox is tiny but not zero. So to be safe it should only be used as last resort if paracetamol isn’t working well enough and a doctor has advised it.

Hi @ARRGHHHHHxxxxx we're going to move your thread to Children's Health now. We hope your DD recovers quickly and isn't too uncomfortable.

Quite a few posts on this thread are pretty uncharitable towards the OP. Can we remind everyone that Mumsnet is here to make parents' lives easier? While we encourage healthy and robust discussion, we hope that everyone can respect each other in their choices and express their views without getting personal. We're sure you'd all agree that parents need all the support they can get.

Peace and love.

Exactly

I once had a patient ask if I was “Dr Saschka’s secretary or something” when I was in the middle of putting a dialysis line into his neck (fully scrubbed, in the intervention radiology dept which looks like an operating theatre).

I assumed he was either delirious or a massive sexist (couldn’t imagine Dr Saschka was female), but perhaps he just assumed I worked for 111?

So you think Google is a better source of medical advise then an actual doctor?

OK then.

I believe it's the doctors themselves advocate it's a last resort method, so how is my info at odds with that perspective

https://weownit.org.uk/blog/nhs-being-systematically-dismantled-privatisation

Looks like it's now French (as much as these huge businesses have a nationality)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundever

@BestBadger

Thanks for the links. First article is very depressing. Can't see Canada mentioned or 111 specifically, but I'm aware of the surreptitious selling off of parts of the NHS.

I think I'll go back to just deciding what I'll have for tea each day 😐

This👆