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Mother’s Instinct On Sick Children Is Right, Doctors Told
If you’re a mother there is good news. Doctors are being told to take you seriously when it comes to your child’s health. Does this imply they didn’t take you seriously before? We hope this study published in The Lancet medical journal is followed by a study that proves a parent knows what is best for their child.
Doctors are being told to treat parents’ fears and concerns that something might be wrong seriously because they are closest to their child.
“As a GP, it’s important to always be alert to parents who are especially concerned about their child,” said Dr Matthew Thompson, one of the researchers.
“We should usually trust parents’ instincts. After all, they will have nursed their child through many minor illnesses before and often can tell when something is different.” The advice, published in The Lancet medical journal, says doctors should also trust their own gut feeling when trying to identify between a child with a serious infection and those with just a cold or cough.
Rapid breathing, poor blood circulation at the skin, and rashes of small purple/red spots are all “red flags” that indicate a child has more than a minor cough or cold, say the researchers.
Doctors were also urged to watch out for a temperature of more than 104F (40C) among children brought into surgeries and assessment units.
Serious infections such as meningitis, pneumonia and sepsis are rare in developed countries and difficult to diagnose in children, said the scientists.
Co-author Dr Matthew Thompson, from Oxford University, said: “For doctors, it’s a bit like finding a needle in a haystack. Serious infections are rare and getting increasingly rarer thanks to vaccinations.
“Identifying that one child out of all those many with minor ailments is difficult. It is complicated further as the child may be seen at any early stage of infection before it is possible to recognise its severity.”
The researchers now want to develop guidelines for GPs so that children with infections are referred to hospitals quickly and only when necessary.
Dr Ann Van den Bruel, another member of the Oxford team, said: “Doctors should routinely check for these warning signs in every sick child they see. For example, not all GPs will check a child’s temperature, whereas we would now suggest this is done on all occasions.”
She added: “Parents shouldn’t try to assess these red flags themselves, it would only add to any uncertainty or anxiety they may already be feeling. However, parents can take heart that we found they are very good at picking up signs that their child is unwell.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7145397/Mothers-instinct-on-sick-children-is-right-doctors-told.html
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Whem my child was at the age of visiting a pediatrician, there was more than one time when I’d take my son in in the afternoon because I KNEW he was sick (dark circles, lethargy) and the Dr. would poo poo me because there was no fever. Then we would end up in the ER that night with a high fever and an asthma attack from the ear infection I knew as a mother was brewing.
Once I spent all night in an ER with a Dr. saying my son was fine because there was no wheezing, and went at 9a.m. across the street to his regular pediatrician (the good one) who said he was having a terrible asthma attack!
Kaiser, but I am sure it happens everywhere…
My youngest son Dara was six months old when my wife and I took him to an out of hours G.P. in N.Ireland. Dara was feverish and he was using his abdominal muscles to breath. My wife was a trained child carer of 8 years experience and she instinctively knew that Dara was seriously ill. This was in a freezing February 5 years ago. The out of hours Doctor, obviously over worked and stressed out totally rejected my wife and I’s fears. He actually signed a referral letter to the hospital and wrote on it “Mother neurotic,needs advice,child has minor temp and respiritory problem,common cold.”
My wife begged that doctor to help our son and I had to walk out for fear of hitting him.
We travelled the 20 miles to Belfast and my son died and had to be revived and kept in intensive care and on a respiritory machine to breathe for him. He had Bronchiolitus and his normal muscles to breathe with had failed and it was because babies use their abdominal muscles in the womb for oxygene Dara was able to hold out until we got to the hospital.
My son would have died and been buried had my wife not persisted with the Know All Doctors.
Women have a deep sense of KNOWING that no man or Doctor could hope to have!!
The whole episode changed my life believe it or not for the better and I know I am here to help people believe in themselves…And I know that DARA is the angel sent here to wake me up…….Love and Light to all…Charlie
Our 4 children up to now have been very healthy. On those occasions when they have been quite ill, including nursing them through whooping cough & measles, I do have this inner instinct that I really do trust, which up to now has assured me they are going to be ok,even though on the surface to outsiders, they could appear very ill and in need of going to hospital which I try to avoid at all costs unless I absolutely am worried.My husband who is normally a very confident person, becomes quickly over concerned and worried if one of our kids gets ill…he also looks to me for reassurance now that it is not serious, as up to now I have been proved right each time Instinct is a very real and useful tool to have nowadays that we need to use more often..
Tens of thousands of moms like myself tell our kid’s doctors that our children as we knew them ceased to exist after getting a vaccine, but they turn a blind eye to that. (I don’t care about their studies, those were on Thimerosal and my kid never had that in his vaccines). If they aren’t listening to us to the tune of tens of thousands I’m hard press to assume this Lancet study is going to make a difference for the average mom concerned about the sniffles.
May I have details of the reference from which this inforation comes — the original article, please.
Adrienne Samuels
adieonly@aol.com
Worked in hospitals as recent as 2004, found thiomersol in the vaccines even then we had in our fridge in the PICU.
When neonates in the NICU at a bay area hospital had severe reactions to vaccines and had to be placed back on ventilators, the neonatologists refused to admit it was the vaccines, the mothers and nurses were furious. A few children who had the vaccine for DPT came into the PICU with pertussis and 2 died, even though they were vaccinated.
I believe as I have seen with my own eyes, vaccine reactions are way under-reported.
Also, always believe the mothers if they say nothing else has changed, but their child is way different after the vaccine, they are.