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4th grader came in complaining of a sore throat. States her throat been sore for a week now. Took her temperature and no fever. Asked her what mom said she said mom just been giving her cough medicine. ok..gave student a drink of water. Spoke with mom and mom wanted me to give her warm salt water :blink: couldn't find any salt... gave her plain water... first time somebody ever ask for salt water .....back to class she goes just wondering if any of you school nurses had parents to ask for weird stuff

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

i live in an area with a large ethnic population and it is not uncommon for the parents to start a home remedy and then want me to continue it at school. I usually won't indulge. But I have learned a lot about interesting home remedies - butter and salt on a bruise?? That was a new one for me.

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We do warm salt water gargles, but I wouldn't give a child salt water to drink.:no:

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Specializes in kids.

What grammy1 said. To gargle!!

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Specializes in ICU/community health/school nursing.

I used to buy the Morton's salt in the blue box for SWG. By the end of the year it got all clumpy. Last year I realized I can buy individual salt packets through MacGill's catalog. SWG is a mainstay up in here because it's one of the few things I can actually do to help a kid feel better.

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Specializes in Home Health,Dialysis, MDS, School Nurse.

I do salt water gargles all the time for my sore throats, but I caution them not to drink it.

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i live in an area with a large ethnic population and it is not uncommon for the parents to start a home remedy and then want me to continue it at school. I usually won't indulge. But I have learned a lot about interesting home remedies - butter and salt on a bruise?? That was a new one for me.

Butter and salt....LOL really

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We do warm salt water gargles, but I wouldn't give a child salt water to drink.:no:

Right..I was thinking the same thing

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I do salt water gargles all the time for my sore throats, but I caution them not to drink it.

Well unfortunately at this school I can't give anything like that unless it's a doctor's order

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Specializes in School Nursing, Pediatrics.
We do warm salt water gargles, but I wouldn't give a child salt water to drink.:no:

DITTO

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I had a girl ask me for apple cider vinegar today. She said that she drinks it for cough, no thank you!

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WOW...LOL

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