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If the brain does not receive glucose it will begin to shut down and death will ensue. Unlike hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia has a very short window of therapeutic time.

I got bitten on the back of my neck by something in a PICU unit on Monday. It got itchy and very red. A search turned up nothing at that time.

Thanks everyone, for all the nice replys. Makes me feel so much better. Happens I was bitten by something in a PICU unit. And in retrospect I'm remembering that a 7 month old baby there had a couples of little red marks on his cheeks. When I commented to another of my professors, she told me that she once worked in a pediatric unit, and she and another nurse saw a teeeeny tiiiiny insect crawling on a babys hand in the incubator! Barely visible, well they searched and searched to no avail, they never found it. She reported it. Thanks again for the replys. The only thing of concern to me would be an encephalitis, but I'm not gonna give it more thought, Just keep my eyes open for S/S. Thanks all, This site is great! :balloons:

I would just like to know has anyone ever seen any kind of flying insect in a hospital PICU or NICU or Med/Surg ?

Hi all. Thought I would post here and perhaps get some advice as I'm a bit worried. As a nursing student currently doing my pediatric practice in a local hospital in the PICU. Yesterday I was assisting a nurse in bathing a very sick baby, and I felt something bite the back of my neck, next to the hairline. It felt almost like a needle prick and immediately began to itch. Quite surprised, I told her, "I think something just bit me", she checked the back of my neck and confirmed that it was very red. I proceeded remove my gloves and clean the area with an alcohol wipe. I reported this to my professor who made light of it and suggested that perhaps my hair got caught on my neckchain. There remained a discomfort in my neck area and at 2 am this morning I awoke with a pounding headache (I don't usually get them) although now it's gone. Can there be insects living in hospital rooms? Should I be worried? Any word of advice would be so helpful to me now. Thank you Elizabeth