Not asking medical advice...this is strictly a protocol question.
My son just woke up from a nap this after noon, 103 deg fever, looked at his throat...tons of white patches. This kid has had strep 4 times...his "spirts" are always good and other than the fact he is one hot tamale, you wouldn't even know the kid was sick. I gave him Motrin immediately.
So it's Sunday, two hours later I take him to Urgent care, and their was a Nurse Practitioner there, which I am ok with.
They did a rapid strep screen on this kid (he has NEVER had patches on his throat that ended up not being strep), it came back negative and told me just to take the kid home...so I said, "So will the results be back on the strep test you send off be back by Tuesday or Wednesay?"
She said, "Oh, we don't send those out, we do rapid-strep only here."
I said, "And those are always accurate?"
Her answer: "Yup...we don't see a reason to send it out".
I have NEVER taken either one of these kids to the doc for strep that they didn't send it off.
Well, this kid ran a hot fever all night. I had to keep waking him up to give him something to drink and alternate between the Tylanol and Motrin....more white patches this morning...I've already decided if that fever doesn't break by this afternoon, I'm taking him back.
I finally just put him in bed with me because I couldn't stand him being in the other room.
Hijack: Does anyone know of a brand of ear thermometer that actually works? I have 3 at the house that all have 1 sec reads and not one of them showed a fever...I have a stash of the old rectal thermometers and oral, and if I didn't have that, I wouldn't have known how high the fever was (which at the highest was 102.8) . I hate those electric things!
justme1972
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Well, this kid ran a hot fever all night. I had to keep waking him up to give him something to drink and alternate between the Tylanol and Motrin....more white patches this morning...I've already decided if that fever doesn't break by this afternoon, I'm taking him back.
I finally just put him in bed with me because I couldn't stand him being in the other room.
Hijack: Does anyone know of a brand of ear thermometer that actually works? I have 3 at the house that all have 1 sec reads and not one of them showed a fever...I have a stash of the old rectal thermometers and oral, and if I didn't have that, I wouldn't have known how high the fever was (which at the highest was 102.8) . I hate those electric things!