When do i start to worry?

Kylahs still sick, getting worse. The 24 hour doctor told us whooping cough, but its not.

Its a really really chesty flemmy cough. She coughs and coughs and coughs, chokes on the flem and coughs abit more.

Shes slept HEAPS today. Woke up at 7.30 and thats a sleep in and back to bed at 10am and slept till almost 2pm and then was asleep on DF at 4pm. We woke her at 5pm tried to give her dinner but shes falling asleep.

When would you worry? She wont take pamol, shes drinking ok. Wont eat. I cant for the life of me get the pamol into her.
The doctor told me to give her 1000mg of vitamin C a day. I cant get her to take it, iv crunched it up and put it in her bottle but she can taste it and doesnt want it.

2 questions,

1. How do you get your baby/toddler to take pamol if the refuse and

2. When do i start to worry?

The only place i can take her apart from the hospital is back to the 24 hour place. Theres SOOO many people there that they seem to throw you in and throw you out asap. The one who seen her at 2am or something didnt really do jack.

I am worried i mean like worry worry.

We do the whole siringe it into her but she spits it out like doing raspberries..

I just dont know!
What if im just a 'over worried' first time mum who doesnt know better you know?

Iv read her well child book back to front and her 'under 5' book and they go on about pneumonia and stuff.. It freaks me out because what if something is wrong and i dont take her and somethings happens but then what if its just a bad cold and i get there and look stupid and useless because i cant see a cold when its coughing in my face ya know.

Do i sound silly?

She did have a small temp 37, shes normally 35. something but i undressed her and stuff and now shes back to 35.9.

What we do for our kids wont take medicine we put it in a little bit of juice for them and it seems to work a treat.

But yes you know your child, id go to the hospital. good luck

Yep I would be off to the hospital just bypass the 24 hour clinic all together.

Yeah Kandice I would go to the hospital too, better safe than sorry and all that.
It could be croup perhaps, that's a really bad cough but still best to get it checked out properly.
She's been ill for a few days now and I don't think anyone will laugh at you for taking a sick toddler to the hospital.

I've taken Spencer to the after hours here a few times and it's been nothing but the docs have never minded, it's so hard to know what's going on when they can't tell you how bad they feel or what their feeling.

I was just going to come on and say ,take her to the hospital, when it comes to your child being sick wrong and "looking like an over paranoid mum" doesnt come into it .

Short story , when C was 1 I was in hospital with her, she had gastro, and that night there was the biggest chaos, because the helicopter was coming with a suspected case of Meningitis from waiheke Island, 20 mins later a nurse came in to check on C and I enquired about it , "was the helicopter case meningitis" , the nurse , said "no, it wasnt after all." , then she turned and with a look of genuine relief and gladness, she said "thank Goodness"
and she meant it, and im pretty sure that unless they are a holes , most nurses and doctors would much much rather you were being "over paranoid" and wrong , than the worst case scenario, and right .

Edited by caitlynsmygirl

I was just going to say take her to the hospital as well but I see you are on your way.

I would be worrying too if it was me in your position so dont think you are being over-protective. Its our job too isn't it.

Good luck. I hope everything will be ok.

I'm glad you have taken her to the dr, I've found they are way nicer in there than the 24 hours place anyway. Hopefully they give her something to really help poor Kylah.