would you let your child's doctor...

littlemac1117 · January 2012

MrsEll:
chapski:
cassie.dall:
When they put a catheter in, do they make you leave the room? I'm just wondering in response to what MrsEll said. That is so disgusting and so so sad. I would never leave the room during a procedure like that.

I don't think they can make you leave a room when it invovles your kid. Actually, I think they might want you there to help.

As for MrsEll's comment, my head didn't even go there, but I actually just read in yesterday's paper about a doctor who is having charges pressed against him for "watching girls change" or something, Don't think it was rape.. But just awful!!
Yeah, I think my head wouldn't go there either if it hadn't been for this particular doctor. Here's the summary of the low-life's charges - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Bradley

I didn't mean that I wouldn't leave the room for fear that my doctor is a creeper, I just meant I wouldn't leave the room for a simple procedure like that. I know if your child has to have anesthesia sometimes you can't be in the room or for certain surgeries. I'm just wondering why these parents were leaving their kids alone at the doctor. (Not that it makes it their fault in any way that that doctor was a POS.)

faith194 · January 2012

DS was cath'd after a week or two of unexplained fevers(I can't remember how long it went on). Our pedi didn't take her decision lightly, either. She had another pedi in the practice help her, while DH and I tried to comfort DS. He was screaming even before they did the procedure, because he doesn't like to be held down. Anyway, they couldn't get a sample, and he peed all over the table while we put his diaper back on. He had blood work, as well, which was worse, as he was dehydrated at the time. Turns out he had a unexplained fevers, but thankfully it wasn't anything far worse. When he has an ear infection, often times, he doesn't have any symptoms(except not sleeping).

The experience was far worse on us than DS, as he won't remember it. It was a way to help diagnose him. I would do it again, if the pedi needs to.

TiffanyBerry · January 2012

Not immediately - caths can introduce a UTI. I would take her home and spend a whole heck of a lot of time on the potty to catch some pee. (This is what we did for the urine sample my doc's office likes to run at 12 months.) If, since in this scenario LO is sick, I couldn't do it by the end of the day (or the next morning), I would let them cath.

imeltice · January 2012

chapski:

Ok, so to answer my question they would be checking for a UTI or Kidney infection?

This is what I'm saying, I couldn't think of an illness that would deem urine test. Most of the time I think urine, I just think "did it look dehydrated/dark" If they were just checking for hydration, I would not want them to do that. I think I'd know if he was drinking a fair amount of water or not...

I think the thought of me holding him down would break my heart. He freaks out when the doctor listens to his heart, so you can imagine how the rest of the app goes.

I also think I've been blessed with E only having RVS last week and that was the "most sick" he's ever been. Guess I don't have a lot of experience with this sort of thing.

I don't post much, but really. It's not that bad, if they know what they are doing it's relatively quick, and not that terrible. My son had a lumbar puncture at 3 weeks old, if you think a catheter for a urine sample is bad, try imagining that one.

lildevil968 · January 2012

I have let them do it in the past to DD, so DS would not be any different.

emsumm · January 2012

Wha-la?

Smootchy · January 2012

ItsAllGravy7:
chapski:

Ok, so to answer my question they would be checking for a UTI or Kidney infection?

This is what I'm saying, I couldn't think of an illness that would deem urine test. Most of the time I think urine, I just think "did it look dehydrated/dark" If they were just checking for hydration, I would not want them to do that. I think I'd know if he was drinking a fair amount of water or not...

I think the thought of me holding him down would break my heart. He freaks out when the doctor listens to his heart, so you can imagine how the rest of the app goes.

I also think I've been blessed with E only having RVS last week and that was the "most sick" he's ever been. Guess I don't have a lot of experience with this sort of thing.

So you think whenever a doctor does a urinalysis or asks for a clean catch urine sample they're just doing a visual test to see if it "looks" dehydrated???

Not at all but I didn't know what else they would be testing for. In all my doctor experiences they can figure 'most' things out through swabs. So like I said, guess I'm just super lucky that we've never had anything too serious that needed further tests.

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