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I thought these times were over.
Yesterday, I was lying sick in bed, some rather nasty flu, with 39.5 fever. My 4 years-old had the same, puking the whole night from the day before yesterday to yesterday.
Unnecessary to tell, he lost quite a bit of liquid, and although we tried to get him to drink, he didn't drink enough it seems. Well, we thought it was enough and he fell asleep. Some two hours later, he opened his eyes and my gf asked him if he was alright since he made a weird look. He didn't respond at all, just staring at us. He was completely paralyzed, when I took him up, his feet remained in the very same position - really scary. My gf immediately called the ambulance and I introduced some liquid to him. This helped and the apparent cramp stopped and Daniel started talking to us again, moving normally - he got better quickly.
The ambulance arrived and the situation kind of made us look like fools, since the child seemed to be well, so they talked us into not going to the hospital right away and rather go see his doctor. So, OK, we had Daniel drink even more, giving him some "normolyt" to pep up his electrolyte values. That should be enough. Later in the day, he had another sleep and when he woke up, the same thing, just even slightly scarier since he hardly could get his mouth up to introduce him liquid. Again we called the ambulance and I now I doubted that he was just dry, since we seemed to have given him enough to drink.
Anyway, I had to stay at home (remember, I was in bed with rather high fever), gf with the 2 boys (Daniel and our baby-Jakob) goes to hospital. The eleytrolyte level turned out to be rather bad, but not critical. There, the doctor just didn't take her seriously, trying to tell HER how the situation was. He just didn't accept that the boy was completely paralyzed and didn't move, just saying that "he was a bit confused when he wake up and didn't know where he was." I freaking hate doctors who act from such a position. He' not supposed to tell the patient how the situation was but what the situation means!
He got some more electrolyt. He didn't finish it all so my gf said, he'll continue to drink that outside. The doctor's response: "Just go home and leave that here, we have enough sick children." - I don't know whether he just wanted her out or if he meant that another child gets the same drink - I really hope not the latter.
Lamentably I was not there to make some fuss. My gf is rather bad confronting so-called authorities and having the two children with her made her utterly defenseless.
They went home and we were still worried because the values were apparently not critical, so we still had the doubt of the origin of the paralysis. We called some medics we know privately who then made us calm down since they said only two reasons commonly can lead to such a state: drying up and encephalitis, which is impossible since it wouldn't become better but only worse. So we made him drink more normolyt (which he hates) and today he's well again.
Still, I'm mad about the treatment received in the hospital. I thought the times when doctors didn't care at all about what a patient has to tell were over, this proved me it still happens.
Yesterday, I was lying sick in bed, some rather nasty flu, with 39.5 fever. My 4 years-old had the same, puking the whole night from the day before yesterday to yesterday.
Unnecessary to tell, he lost quite a bit of liquid, and although we tried to get him to drink, he didn't drink enough it seems. Well, we thought it was enough and he fell asleep. Some two hours later, he opened his eyes and my gf asked him if he was alright since he made a weird look. He didn't respond at all, just staring at us. He was completely paralyzed, when I took him up, his feet remained in the very same position - really scary. My gf immediately called the ambulance and I introduced some liquid to him. This helped and the apparent cramp stopped and Daniel started talking to us again, moving normally - he got better quickly.
The ambulance arrived and the situation kind of made us look like fools, since the child seemed to be well, so they talked us into not going to the hospital right away and rather go see his doctor. So, OK, we had Daniel drink even more, giving him some "normolyt" to pep up his electrolyte values. That should be enough. Later in the day, he had another sleep and when he woke up, the same thing, just even slightly scarier since he hardly could get his mouth up to introduce him liquid. Again we called the ambulance and I now I doubted that he was just dry, since we seemed to have given him enough to drink.
Anyway, I had to stay at home (remember, I was in bed with rather high fever), gf with the 2 boys (Daniel and our baby-Jakob) goes to hospital. The eleytrolyte level turned out to be rather bad, but not critical. There, the doctor just didn't take her seriously, trying to tell HER how the situation was. He just didn't accept that the boy was completely paralyzed and didn't move, just saying that "he was a bit confused when he wake up and didn't know where he was." I freaking hate doctors who act from such a position. He' not supposed to tell the patient how the situation was but what the situation means!
He got some more electrolyt. He didn't finish it all so my gf said, he'll continue to drink that outside. The doctor's response: "Just go home and leave that here, we have enough sick children." - I don't know whether he just wanted her out or if he meant that another child gets the same drink - I really hope not the latter.
Lamentably I was not there to make some fuss. My gf is rather bad confronting so-called authorities and having the two children with her made her utterly defenseless.
They went home and we were still worried because the values were apparently not critical, so we still had the doubt of the origin of the paralysis. We called some medics we know privately who then made us calm down since they said only two reasons commonly can lead to such a state: drying up and encephalitis, which is impossible since it wouldn't become better but only worse. So we made him drink more normolyt (which he hates) and today he's well again.
Still, I'm mad about the treatment received in the hospital. I thought the times when doctors didn't care at all about what a patient has to tell were over, this proved me it still happens.
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