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  • Please Stay Home And Protect The NHS

    PLEASE SHARE!! so going back 6 weeks the week before lock down Freddie became not himself. He had a high fever and a rash all over him so I took him to the doctors and it was suspected scarlet fever.

    He was given some meds which I found extremely hard to give him. He wasn’t eating, wasn’t drinking, drowsy and just completely not with it at all. Anyone that knows freddie knows how extremely hyper and loud he is. I took him to the doctors the Thursday and he went to his dads that night.

    The next day Friday we took him to the sick kids as he really just wasn’t himself and they told us it’s just a bad case of scarlet fever he would be on the mend in a few days. Then Sunday came and it sounds so horrible to say but he just looked like a zombie.

    His nose was bleeding out of no where and he was completely out of it. The whites of his eyes were bright red, it just seemed like there was no life to him. So I took him back to sick kids and the lady I seen told me again it was a bad case of scarlet fever. She couldn’t see a problem with him as he was responding to her when she asked him questions (when you’re a mum you know your child and know when there’s something not right at all). At this point though

    Freddie was point blank refusing to take the medication at all so they changed the dose down to a smaller dose. I tried everything possible to give him these meds but he just wouldn’t take them. Monday came and he still just looked horrendous. The rash that he had started to spread all over his face. So again took him back to the sick where we actually got kept in this time as he was refusing the meds completely.

    We got put into a room for isolation as we were still under the assumption it was scarlet fever. Freddie was kept in hospital Monday to Friday. On the Wednesday we got moved to a ward as they no longer thought it was scarlet fever and they thought he actually had Kawasaki disease. Kawasaki disease is a disease that only affects 8 in 100000 children in the uk. He wasn’t actually tested for it but he did have a heart scan which confirmed the the valves to his heart had swollen.

    They also found a heart murmur that had never been picked up before but this could’ve just been because of how unwell he was. Freddie is fully on the mend now. The week after Freddie was in hospital I was really unwell had lost all sense of taste and smell and had a bad cough with sweats. I didn’t think much of it because it wasn’t much worse than the general cold.

    I’m writing this post to raise awareness over this severity of this illness and to urge you to stay home. This was the worst week of my life. Freddie has had his fair share of hospital visits but this was nothing like this week we had. Please stay home, save lives and protect the NHS.

    EDIT – although Freddie is completely back to him self hes been on Asprin since being home. He’s not been able to hold his pee, Freddie was potty trained well over a year ago and never had a problem never had accidents never wet the bed. Since having Kawasaki he struggles to hold his pee at any time and we are dealing with a lot of accidents, he also has a continuous rash that looks like eczema on his stomach and back which he didn’t have before Kawasaki either.

    Credit https://www.facebook.com/chloe.knight.75

  • Experiment Shows The Danger Of Covering Babies Pram

     

    ⚠️ I know this subject has been posted many a times, but still to this day, I see babies/ children in pushchairs on very sunny and hot days with blankets draped over them to block the sun and heat out…. PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS!!! ⚠️

    👶🏻 Today I did an experiment with my baby in her pushchair, to be able to show what actually happens to the temperature 👶🏻….

    🔆Dolly had her factor 50, 5* UVA suncream on, her drink to keep her hydrated and sun hat on.

    But it was still hot, so I thought I’d put a blanket over her to block the sun out 🔆

    ‼️ I also popped a thermometer in with Dolly.

    The temperature before a cover over her was about 35 degrees.

    After just 12 minutes I thought I’d see how it was going….The temperature had risen to 45 degrees!! Another 15 minutes later we were pushing onto nearly 50 degrees ‼️

    All I can say is, thank goodness Dolly is a dolly.

    Please, please think before you do this to an actual child as the thought of the outcome is just unbearable.

    Please share the life out of this post to reach people who may not know how severe doing this could be!

    #childcare #safetyfirst #summersafety #stayingsafeinthesun

    Credit https://www.facebook.com/babybondnorthwestregion/

  • Febrile Convulsions I Didn’t Know What To Do

    FEBRILE CONVULSIONS!!!!

    LONG POST BUT PLEASE READ.

    So just wanted to put a little warning out there for all the mummies that don’t know about febrile conculsions,

    On Saturday my whole life nearly shattered, I was out the full day with Matthew, we went to the park, and went for some food he was fine and acting his usual self hyper and full of energy, as we were walking home he fell asleep so I just left him to it, once we got home I took him out his pram and put him in his bed, and that’s when I noticed he was breathing very fast.

    So I stripped him down to his vest and took his temperature, his temperature was at 39.9 so gave him some ibuprofen (baby) to help and within 2 minutes of him taken it he started to daze off so I started to cup his cheek and talk to him asking if everything was okay, he then started to shake, I didn’t know what to do or what was happening I picked him up and he started to get worse and worse my baby started turning purple.

    I panicked and shouted to my partner Marc and he took Matthew and sat him on his knee trying to make sure his tongue never rolled to the back of his throat, he’s then started to turn blue 6 minutes in and he still wasn’t coming round, mean while we were on hold for the ambulance, after about 10 minutes my baby’s body went floppy and foam was coming from his mouth he was unresponsive, he came back round for a few seconds and was crying normal again then the he went straight back into another seizure.

    The  ambulance came and he was given oxygen and they took his heart rate as they were doing there thing I was thinking it’s my fault thinking I had done something I had a panic attack and my mind went blank, I couldn’t think straight i was broken and terrified that I was going to lose my baby💔, we got to the hospital and they told me it was “ febrile convulsions” and that it’s common in baby’s up to the age of 6, it’s caused by a baby’s temperature being too high and because they can’t regulate there own body it kinda goes into shock it occurs in about 3 in 100 children , and can also can re-occurs approximately 3-4 times in a child.

    I was never told anything about this as a new mum you would think they would give you warning if a babies high temperature could cause a seizure, i though the worse and though I was going to lose my baby and I would never in a million years wish that on my worst enemy💔,

    What do you do if your baby starts to have a febrile convulsion seizure?

    Try to keep calm as much as it’s frightening they will not be aware of anything that’s going on.

    Do not hold your child down when they’re having a fit

    Lay your child on the floor or ground on their side to prevent choking or accidental injury

    Do not put anything near or in your babies mouth

    Take a note of how long the fit last and seek medical attention.

    Most babies come round within 5-10 minutes and will be completely fine and not aware of anything that’s just happened.

    Credit https://www.facebook.com/bobbieanne.simpson

     

  • Just A Viral Infection?

    Out of the blue Lilly got a high temperature after being fine all day. I had a feeling something wasn’t right as Calpol wasn’t bringing her temperature down.

     I decided to take her to an out of hours GP, and, after seeing a doctor, Lilly was sent home, diagnosed with a virus.
    I stayed next to her all night monitoring her temperature. The next morning Lilly was moaning and crying and just wanted to be cuddled.

     I put her down for a nap and when she woke up an hour later she just looked at me as if to say ‘help me mummy’.

    At that point I picked her up out of her cot and she vomited everywhere; I’ve never seen so much sick come from a baby.

    I dressed her in a babygrow and put her straight in the car and we drove back up to the GP surgery, next to A & E, where I ran in with her and demanded to be seen straight away.

    A triage nurse saw us straight away and called for a senior nurse. After taking a few observations the senior nurse took us straight round to A & E, and we were rushed into paediatrics, where they tried to locate Lilly’s veins so they could extract blood and administer fluid as she was very dehydrated from being so sick.

    When they were unable to find any veins they needed to drill into her shins. Traumatic as this was it was necessary to save her life.

    Once they stabilised Lilly they admitted her to a ward where she had a lumbar punch to confirm meningitis.

    After seven days on the ward, countless needles, blood tests, antibiotics and steroids our baby girl was discharged having made a full recovery.

    She is now a beautiful, cheeky three-year- old with normal development and no apparent lasting damage.

  • Sepsis: Don’t wait!!!

    Sepsis.

     Something that most people have heard of, but don’t understand or know what it is or what it means. 

    Something that’s deadly serious, but not known enough. 

    I’ve heard about it, know about symptoms and it still didn’t cross my mind that my daughter could have it as well as meningitis. She did. 

    Exactly a week after her first birthday, In the space of 3 and a half hours, my daughter went from her happy, normal self to being in a serious, critical condition in hospital, the doctors exact words were “if you had brought her in an hour later, she wouldn’t have made it”. A temperature of 41 degrees celcius, heart rate of 210 (it shouldn’t be over 130), a purple blotchy rash and freezing cold arms and legs. 

    My daughters body had shut down, it took them 40 minutes to find a vein for a cannula. She was on fluids for 48 hours, and in Hospital for a week. On IV antibiotics and 2 injections a day for a week. She had to have a lumbar puncture, which is where they take fluid from your spine. 

    No child should have to go through that. Luckily it was caught in time, but not everyone is that lucky. If even one person reads this, at least that’s something. Knowing the symptoms could save a life, and going with your instincts. If you think something’s not right, get it checked.