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Ds age 8 is having willy problems, nhs direct very busy, help?

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tunise · 30/12/2006 10:00

Ds age 8 has been complaining the last couple of days that his willy hurts. It is a bit swollen in the middle underneath and he says it itches inside. Is weeing normally.

Have tried him soaking in a warm bath with nothing added to it and also dosed up on suitable painkillers, which has helped a bit.

Nhs direct helpline is very busy and are asking only urgent calls to hold on, this isn't urgent but is very uncomfortable for Ds and is stopping him from playing out etc with friends because it feels worse when he is moving around etc.

Does anyone have any idea what this is or what i can do to help him?

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pooka · 30/12/2006 10:05

Can you ring your own GP instead and get an appointment today as an emergency. If he's uncomfortable I think he, as a child, should be seen asap just so you both can be reassured.

pooka · 30/12/2006 10:08

Sorry - just realised it's Saturday. If you ring your GP does their answerphone have a message about out of hours doctors in your area. We have something called EmDoc - based at the local hospital. You ring ahead, speak to a doctor and if they want you to, you go in and see a GP. Involves a fair bit of waiting sometimes, but if he's sore it's worth looking into rather than waiting on NHS direct I think.

iota · 30/12/2006 10:08

see here - agree with pooka that you should get a dr to look at it - he will prbably need anti-biotics

DimpledThighs · 30/12/2006 10:10

Keep trying with NHS direct or call your gp and they should give you number of out of hours docs.

my son had a hurting willy last month - took to docs and turned out he had an infection under the foreskin. Very common and it went in a few days with batroban - could it be that?

DimpledThighs · 30/12/2006 10:11

cross posts - but what he had is what iota linked to, ballanitis (sp)

WideWebWitch · 30/12/2006 10:11

Might be balanitis? Hang on, will see if I can find something about it

WideWebWitch · 30/12/2006 10:13

Sorry, see Iota's already linked. Can you call your out of hours dr instead of nhs direct? Or a walk in centre?

gingermonkey · 30/12/2006 10:15

My friend's little boy had a similar thing, they left off going to docs because he was embarressed and it went all yukky and had pus coming out of it. He had a course of anti biots and was right as rain in a week, it's easy to get infections down there because of the foreskin. Just bear in mind the bank holiday, so if you can get to a doc I would do it asap otherwise it will be tues before they are open normally and it could get worse, which is not very nice for the lo. Do you have an NHS walk in centre?

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tunise · 30/12/2006 10:15

Thanks, i'll give local docs on call a ring now and see what they say.

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tunise · 30/12/2006 10:26

Local doc on call also very busy, that time of year i guess. Awaiting Doctor to phone back in up to 3 hours. Poor Ds sat there getting and as i was talking about his bits! Bless him.

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brimfull · 30/12/2006 10:39

may be worth waiting to be seen at caualty,you may beable to get ab's there aswell.

pooka · 30/12/2006 10:40

Aaaw - poor him
Hope the doc gets back to you soon.

DimpledThighs · 30/12/2006 10:49

oh tunise - how hold is ds?

My son was very embarassed when he went to the doc with it - didn't even want to show them. Luckily dh took him and siad

"don't worry I have shown people my penis lots of times." which I thought was quite funny.

Tell him not to worry - hope you get it sorted soon.

x

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tunise · 30/12/2006 14:23

Wow, you lot are very good. Yes it was balanitis (which i have never heard of before)

Doctor also checked his ears, throat and chest as he is full of cold and found that one of his ears was looking very red inside.

So a course of AB's should kill two birds with one stone!

LOL at dimpled DH, isn't that just the sort of thing kids would repeat at inappropiate moments "my daddy said........"

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DimpledThighs · 30/12/2006 18:10

glad it was easily sorted - hope out of hours doc was not too hellish.

Am looking forward to quoting dh in the future...

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