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My mantra lately: "Wash your HANDS, go back to CLASS and cover your COUGH!"

Specializes in kids.
I was just informed by a KG student that bubble gum, grape flavored is what he needs to make his ear ache go away. Alas, no bubble gum in this office. He left disappointed.

Actually I had a PA who used to tell kids who were dx'd with ETD to chew gum, not sure if he specified what flavor!

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10 year old with foreign object in ear. Time to leave yet???????

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
10 year old with foreign object in ear. Time to leave yet???????

Is it blue play doh? Had a sibling of a patient that the doc panicked. Rapid referral to ENT. It was blue play doh. I could see if it was red, green, orange, yellow, brown even black. Not too many blue infections

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Is it blue play doh? Had a sibling of a patient that the doc panicked. Rapid referral to ENT. It was blue play doh. I could see if it was red, green, orange, yellow, brown even black. Not too many blue infections

Hahahahaha! It was blue! Royal blue. Student says she has no idea what it could possibly be. Not round, had irregular edges (tip of a crayon, maybe??) Told the parents to take her to their dr. When my daughter was 4, she put SEVEN beads in her ear. SEVEN. They flushed them out at her pediatrician's office and it was unpleasant, to put it mildly.

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My 6 year old put popcorn in his ear. The kernels.

Not when he was 3. When he was 6.

*facepalm*

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RT: You all have that nasty stomach bug going around?

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Specializes in Peds, Oncology.
RT: You all have that nasty stomach bug going around?

We have a mix of the stomach bug and some fever thing that causes a massive headache but no other s/s. Been sending home 5-7 kids a day all week with either issue...

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Specializes in ED, School Nurse.

We have a nasty cough going around. And I've had a couple of kids vomit in the past couple of days.

Also SO MANY bloody noses, which I believe I mentioned in another thread.

GAH!!!!

Only 3 more (school) days until T-giving break!!!

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8th grade boys did the Jalepeno Cahllenge yesterday and puked green peppers in my office.

Same group that did the Hot Sauce Challenge last year with the diarrhea.

Mhm.

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We have a mix of the stomach bug and some fever thing that causes a massive headache but no other s/s. Been sending home 5-7 kids a day all week with either issue...

Us too, the fever/headache thing. No other symptoms. In the midwest also.

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8th grade boys did the Jalepeno Cahllenge yesterday and puked green peppers in my office.

Same group that did the Hot Sauce Challenge last year with the diarrhea.

Mhm.

Lovely...when do they graduate?

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Lovely...when do they graduate?

2020 :/

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