Say AAAhhhh...actually, don't bother

[marydell]

So apparently if you are a baby who has been diagnosed with reactive airway syndrome, and has food allergies, when you see doctors because of a bout of breathing trouble nobody will bother to look at your throat, even when you have a 103 degree fever and they are xraying your chest just in case it's pneumonia.  It didn't occur to us to ask when we were at the ER, and when we had our followup with his regular pediatrician she looked at his ears but since he was sleeping on my shoulder she didn't look in his mouth.

The wheezing, coughing, vomiting, and crying continued yesterday, although fortunately with no fever.  Also he was rubbing his neck  some.  Fortunately he's a year old now, so he can have honey, and when I put a little of it on his pacifier he suddenly stopped coughing and settled down for a nap.  Not an airway problem; a sore throat.

Since Mike has tonsillitis, I think it's a fair guess that the kiddo has it too.  Fortunately since they put him on a steroid for his supposed airway flare-up, and the regular doc put him on an antibiotic for his ears (which are pretty much always having a problem), so he is already taking everything they'd give him for a tonsil problem.  But nobody bothered to *look.*

I'm taking him to an ear/nose/throat doctor in a couple of weeks, to see if we can get ahead of the next event.  This thing of needing to take antibiotics for, like, half of every month has got to stop.

Comments

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think that if you're a baby they don't look in your mouth, period. I've heard from more than one pediatrician that babies just don't get sore throats. Don't know why.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Aw, poor kid. Poor Mamma. Dumb doctors.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Oh, holy crap. Bleagh.