Re: Day spent in ER with high BS

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Hi Maloy,

I am sure you will get a lot of replies, but it is crazy how some doctors

like to pass the buck. I know from our own experience and what others have

said on the listserve is that it is not enough to go home just because the

child drank and no longer seems dehydrated. When Jonah gets a stomach bug

and cannot keep anything down and is spilling ketenes, he stays in the

hospital with a D10IV until he is able to keep food down and stop spilling

ketones. Is Tori throwing up, keeping stuff down or spilling

ketones? and Jodi Z. have both written down the protocol for stomach

viruses, I believe this was on the listserve recently again.

Jonah is not tube fed, so it may be a little different, but is sounds to me

like she should not have been released so early. See what some of the

experts on the listserve say. Hope she is feeling better.

, Jonah's mom

Day spent in ER with high BS

> Hey,

> It's been awhile since I have posted but I have been reading. Our

> morning started out normal. But Tori aske to be vented after

> breakfast of 8 oz peptim Jr. bolused. Plus she ate leftover topping

> off pizza. She asked for a second venting and then said she was

> sleepy and shut her eyes and walked to my bed and fell asleep for

> like ten minutes.

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> I was thinking this wasn't right. Called the Ped. Went to the

> neighbor and got his blood sugar tester. Peds called back while I

> was gone. Tested sugar it was 381. This is the first time I tested

> it but knew it was high. Called the ped. They said to call endo,

> endo said we aren't treating her for diabetic reasons we are

> treating for RSS/SGA go to ER. Isn't this blood sugar stuff part of

> RSS/SGA??? That is what I have been reading and my understanding.

> Mom's know best I guess.

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> One dr asks three times if we see an endo. I say the same thing.

> Yes we have an appt on the 10th of Nov with Dr Blah Blah Blah. Oh I

> didn't see anything in the computer. I gave the date when we last

> saw him. The day I was discharged from having my baby c-section. LOL

>

> Go to ER they do an EKG, blood work Sugars are now 90, urine-there

> is glucose in the urine, and xrays of the stomach. All done by

> 12:30. Now get her to drink something and you can go home. Nobody

> comes in with a cup. So I bolus 4 oz of peptim Jr and 2 oz of

> water. The nurse asks if she drank anything. I said she was

> bolused. She said that isn't what the dr. ordered. I said she

> tollerated the feed and had a loose stool. Ok you will be

> discharged soon.

>

> 3:00 still no report but you will be discharged soon. Three disney

> movies later. No food for myself or Tori other than what I

> bolused. I did give her another 4 oz. Baby is crawling and walking

> all over. Tori is asking when are we going home. Husband shows up

> for the second time from work and now is done working and takes the

> baby.

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> 3:30 now we are discharged. Diagnoise Stomach bug, fainting,

> follow up with ped this week return if reoccures or gets worse.

>

> Was everything done right or was I missing any things? I did have

> the Magic hand outs with me for SGA and RSS.

>

> Maloy mom to Tori and

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