sapphirenut asked:
Recently I posted a question about feeding a 4 month old baby small quantities of water. I mentioned that the pediatrician had been rude and snapped at me for feeding her 2 oz of water after 2-3 days of diarrhea. I took her back 2 days later to a different pediatrician and positively insisted on contaminate testing of her stool as there had been blood in her stool for 3 days. The first pediatrician had said it was intolerance of her formula and switched her to soy. The second also switched her to Alimentium BUT heeded my advice to check for Salmonella, ova and parasites (the mother has well water). Come to find out, the baby tested positive for Salmonella (the mother had a boa constrictor in the room that was converted to a nursery). Should I do something to prosecute the first doctor who could have done the same test and possibly prevented the infant from suffering days of cramping diarrhea, an unbelivably raw bottom and bloody stools?
It’s a cut and dried case of a physician not taking the time to care for a sick patient. The child was new to the clinic and new to the doctor and she didn’t even take the time to note her past medical history or other complaints. The child is on Medicaid and her family is very poor. The doctor spent less than 10 minutes with her and just assumed without ever observing the three blood-tinged, stool-filled diapers that she had a milk allergy. Turns out she has SALMONELLA!!
AFTER POSTS – MORE DETAIL:
This, I might add, was not simply diarrhea. THE CHILD’S STOOL TESTED POSITIVE FOR SALMONELLA!! This means that IF the first doc had actually taken MORE THAN 10 MINUTES with this Medicaid baby, she might’ve made a different diagnosis. If she hadn’t been so busy snapping my head off for trying to rehydrate this infant, perhaps she might’ve made a better diagnosis. The child STILL TO THIS DAY has diarrhea. There is no blood, but her bottom is still chapped and raw from the 10+ stool filled diapers she has a day. We are using 1/8 of Desitin or Boudreaux’s butt paste, or Triple Paste, or Vaseline, or a mixture, or talcum-free cornstarch powder, or a combination of all that on this child’s fanny. I’m not her mother, just her caregiver, and I’m really FURIOUS with that first doctor for not catching this sooner. Not sure what she could’ve done, but she could have at least KNOWN the child had Salmonella had she taken the time to test!
Stop Panic Attacks Forever
Recently I posted a question about feeding a 4 month old baby small quantities of water. I mentioned that the pediatrician had been rude and snapped at me for feeding her 2 oz of water after 2-3 days of diarrhea. I took her back 2 days later to a different pediatrician and positively insisted on contaminate testing of her stool as there had been blood in her stool for 3 days. The first pediatrician had said it was intolerance of her formula and switched her to soy. The second also switched her to Alimentium BUT heeded my advice to check for Salmonella, ova and parasites (the mother has well water). Come to find out, the baby tested positive for Salmonella (the mother had a boa constrictor in the room that was converted to a nursery). Should I do something to prosecute the first doctor who could have done the same test and possibly prevented the infant from suffering days of cramping diarrhea, an unbelivably raw bottom and bloody stools?
It’s a cut and dried case of a physician not taking the time to care for a sick patient. The child was new to the clinic and new to the doctor and she didn’t even take the time to note her past medical history or other complaints. The child is on Medicaid and her family is very poor. The doctor spent less than 10 minutes with her and just assumed without ever observing the three blood-tinged, stool-filled diapers that she had a milk allergy. Turns out she has SALMONELLA!!
AFTER POSTS – MORE DETAIL:
This, I might add, was not simply diarrhea. THE CHILD’S STOOL TESTED POSITIVE FOR SALMONELLA!! This means that IF the first doc had actually taken MORE THAN 10 MINUTES with this Medicaid baby, she might’ve made a different diagnosis. If she hadn’t been so busy snapping my head off for trying to rehydrate this infant, perhaps she might’ve made a better diagnosis. The child STILL TO THIS DAY has diarrhea. There is no blood, but her bottom is still chapped and raw from the 10+ stool filled diapers she has a day. We are using 1/8 of Desitin or Boudreaux’s butt paste, or Triple Paste, or Vaseline, or a mixture, or talcum-free cornstarch powder, or a combination of all that on this child’s fanny. I’m not her mother, just her caregiver, and I’m really FURIOUS with that first doctor for not catching this sooner. Not sure what she could’ve done, but she could have at least KNOWN the child had Salmonella had she taken the time to test!
Stop Panic Attacks Forever