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Shitty Dr's on call are telling me to wait 2 hours to get a response to my 1yr old dd's high temp and rash.

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AllieDelOllio · 09/09/2006 10:34

Shall I call back and say this is bollocks. She looks awful. I thought it may be chicken pox but no real blisters yet just bumpy red rash. she's had a temp on and off all week so we've been doing calpol/nurofen. but she's not right, had a bit of diaorrhea, sick last night..

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cupcakes · 09/09/2006 10:37

Have they an out of hours clinic you can take her to? They tend not to advertise them much but they are where the doctors are often based. Ours is luckily just round the corner (NOT at the health centre) but I didn't know about it for years.
Otherwise, yes, phone them back and tell them it is more urgent than you orignally realised.

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AllieDelOllio · 09/09/2006 10:39

we don't have that kind of facility in these here parts. i call my local surgery and get transferred to somewhere 45 miles away

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puff · 09/09/2006 10:39

I would honestly just bypass them and go to A&E.

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AllieDelOllio · 09/09/2006 10:40

she's not a and e poorly though so feel like a time waster

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cupcakes · 09/09/2006 10:42

phone them back.

cupcakes · 09/09/2006 10:43

don't go to a+e - you'll be waiting much longer than 2 hours.

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AllieDelOllio · 09/09/2006 10:43

i'm phoning them now.

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puff · 09/09/2006 10:45

Allie - I honestly don't think you would be considered time wasting.

puff · 09/09/2006 10:46

Our A&E sees children v quickly - maybe the system is different in your area.

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AllieDelOllio · 09/09/2006 10:47

i called them back. she has upgraded it and taken my mobile number this time. When she fell and got her lip caught between her teeth and had a bleeding nose, we still had to wait 2 hours. she was only just 1 then..

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cupcakes · 09/09/2006 10:52

I have to say I have never (touch wood) taken a child to a+e so I hadn't considered the fact that they would prioritise them.
I still wouldn't go though as our hospital is over 45 mins away.

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AllieDelOllio · 09/09/2006 10:55

i'm leaving work now. my lovely friend is covering and i'm popping down to my local hospital where the dr on call is. They will check her over. Thanks for listening x

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puff · 09/09/2006 10:56

I took ds2 a few months ago because he woke up screaming his head off and had this weird fast spreading rash, plus one of his eyes had completely closed up.

It turned out to be a reaction to something (we never found out what), but the doctors in A&E were smashing. I said I felt a bit of a twerp as it turned out not to be really serious, but the doctors said I was right to bring him in to be on the safe side.

puff · 09/09/2006 10:57

Hope she gets better soon Allie

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AllieDelOllio · 09/09/2006 10:57

you're all lovely. ta

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AllieDelOllio · 09/09/2006 11:49

just got back. Dr thought it was virus, and rosiola?? or summat like that. got to keep up the calpol and nurofen. bless her, she's so unhappy

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cupcakes · 09/09/2006 11:59

glad you've been seen.
Hope she's feeling better soon.

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AllieDelOllio · 09/09/2006 12:01

ta very muchly. there were 2 other babies in there the same. apparently it's "going round"

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LaDiDaDi · 09/09/2006 14:30

Our A+E has a system that definitely prioritises children.

Any child should be seen within 1 hour of arrival by a doctor and given calpol/ibuprofen by a nurse within 30min if they have a pain or a temp. Any baby under 1yr automatically gets referred straight to see paeds.

Littlefish · 09/09/2006 14:33

That sounds like a great systems LaDiDaDi. Our A&E doesn't have anything like that. I had to take dd when she had a really high temperature and I couldn't keep her awake. We weren't seen for 3 and a half hours! It turned out she had an ear infection in both ears and needed antibiotics.

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