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Quote: Kids get sick like this all the time
Really? Neck stiffness, confusion, vomiting, disorientation, etc. etc. If your child shows these signs and that is not enough for an urgent call to a doctor, what in heaven's name is required before you take a child for a professional opinion?
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modified 9-Mar-16 15:37pm.
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I don't take my child to the doctor when they sneeze. Although, when I lived in Mexico, anytime I sneezed, even once, people would ask if I was getting sick. So, I understand everyone has their own threshold.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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No, but I would take said child if they were "lethargic and becoming stiff".
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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jeron1 wrote: lethargic and becoming stiff".
How do you tell that a 19 month old is stiff? What does that even mean? Usually that happens during rigor mortis.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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A 19 month old is very mobile, and motion (mostly running) is almost constant while they are awake. What it means, in my non-MD opinion, is there's potentially a neurological problem. In any case, better safe than sorry.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: better safe than sorry.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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That's why you consult a doctor.
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At what point? What does stiffness in a 19 month old look like?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: How do you tell that a 19 month old is stiff?
What they actually said was that he was starting to watch Kevin McCarthy speeches without throwing up.
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jeron1 wrote: "lethargic and becoming stiff"
Sounds like most of my teenage years.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You are BAD! +5
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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19 MONTHS old not 19 years. Above behavior is normal for a teenager.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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There aren't enough prisons in the world to house all the Jehovah's Witnesses.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My father-in-law used to chase them down the street, great fun to watch!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You only need to incarcerate the ones that watch their children die, without getting professional help. Cannot be that many of them.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Cannot be that many of them and reducing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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No bacon? It was obviously doomed to fail.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Dang, can they get a Darwin Award?
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Read the rules. Killing someone else (even your own offspring) does not qualify.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Dang! missed the small print, again
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And the 'scientist' that started the Anti-Vaxxer movement even admitted he falsified the results and much of his study. And yet people don't get that the data they use to prove their point is ^€%**&$@& FAKE! WAKE UP, IDIOTS!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: to prove their point is ^€%**&$@& FAKE! WAKE UP, IDIOTS! Slow down trigger. Maybe you are speaking about this single incident but it feels like you are referring to overall trust in doctors vs. self-medicating.
My son, when 2 years old or so, got ear infections. The doctor said nothing could be done, we had to operate. Really? That doesn't sound right. In all the history of man what did they do before doctors operated. So, we got a second opinion. Same thing. So, a little research on our own and found out that garlic oil will clear ear infections. Took kid back to doctor to check and sure enough, ear infection gone. Simple.
So, don't knock nature if you haven't tried it.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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My son was having ear infections that blocked his hearing to the extent that you had to speak very loudly. ENT guy gave antibiotics and it cleared up in a couple of days. The story has several more levels, but the guy had only one thing on his mind: Surgery. Even though he was due to outgrow the problem in a year or so. They tried to panic us about burst eardrums as a potential outcome.
Paying attention to reality, I new that ear infections in kids have been around a long time and I never heard of a single case of a burst eardrum from the pressure. Still - it was scary. Since he was a clever kid, we showed him where the antihistamines were, for his use, if he starts to have any discomfort that he knew led to ear-aches. Problem solved, sans surgery. In general, however, I wanted them to use their immune system - but only so long as there was no danger. The Darwin Award candidates in question really needed to accept that their treatment was making things no better and the illness was progressing. My handling included the observation that medications cleared the symptoms immediately and, since it was having a serious effect on his hearing, something needed to be done. But cutting a hole in his eardrum was not one of them.*
Your solution, by the way, with Garlic oil, works for a very good reason: Garlic has been found to contain natural antibiotics by 'real' scientists. Oregano, too, but the amount you'd need to eat for a useful effect was not really feasible. Deodorized garlic oil is supposed to be worthless.
* It has since been found that kids who have had tubes in their ears fare no better than those who don't - so, aside from making lots of money, it was almost always useless.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Garlic has been found to contain natural antibiotics by 'real' scientists. Actually, it's been known for millennia, long before "scientists" discovered it.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Yup - that's why they looked at it. Similarly, cranberry juice for urinary tract infections also works for specific (and verified) reasons.
The reason I mention it is that there are countless home/herbal remedies. Some of them work. Some of them, I'd even venture to say most of them, don't. The 30% effective placebo effect, however, creates an anecdotal legacy. In the USA, in particular, claims for herbal remedies have to be proven NEITHER safe NOR effective - so long as they simply call them a supplement. They can only be stopped if they're found to be dangerous. They make $Billions, and even big pharmacopeia gets in on the deal. (Echinacea, for all it's hype, was found no better than placebo - but many drug companies produced their version of the supplement whilst it was in fashion).
It's a shame there's so much hype as nature's pharmacy is rich with medications.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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