Take her back?

I took Janaya to ED last night because she was crying with abdominal pain. We were there till 2am this morning, got told she had a urinary tract infection and that she would be best at home in her own bed.

So she's at home and has been crying and sobbing non-stop since she woke. Banging her foot and throwing her fists against the couch to help cope with the pain I just feel so sorry for her and I don't know what else to do for her..

I've called Healthline, my Mum, the ED again and they've all said as long as she doesn't have a fever she just has to ride it out, and once the Anti-B's kick in then she will start improving.

2 weeks ago she was in hospital for three days with a suspected Kidney and urinary tract infection.. she had a high temp but no other presenting symptoms, other than flank pain in the 2nd day. She had blood in her urine back then and has it again now... They discharged her saying she wouldn't need a full course of Antibiotics because the second urine test showed nothing, so they thought it was just a viral thing (Viral.. always the way!)

So what should I do? Take her back to the ED or wait?

Whats your GP like? if it were Daniel i'd ring my GP who is awesome and ask them for advice cause they know my child.

oh my god take her back asap............my daughter had sever UTI was in for a week with a high dose of anti botics only can be done through IV ..........and she wasnt in that much pain........that is not on i feel for you hun you know your kids better then anyone.......i yelled at the stuff in ED with my son and they said lucky i did or he would have died within an hour so go hard.........yes home is the best place in some cases cause its worse with the germs in hospital but not if that kid is in that much pain.......if you have to cry in front of them.............good luck and thoughts are 4with you

i would dose her up on pamo and her AB's. give her some cranberry juice too. if no improvement by tomorrow then i would take her back. (if the pain is that bad tho you can give the other stuff as well - ummm cant remember what its called tho...but it lasts 6 hours instead of 4 and you can give both.)

Thanks Ladies.

Just went out and got her nurofen. Bizzy I think that is what you are talking about.. I can give her both nurofen and pamol

She seems a bit better now, I'm going to see how she is in an hour or two. She doesn't have a fever at the moment, TysMummy did your daughter have a fever?

no not all the time...........and it was mostly at night........she was happy and smiling during the day and screamed every now and then............but cried all night..........and nappies where dry.....they said normal urine test isnt gonna give very good results so they got some urine with a catheter (sp?) within that hour they had us in a bed with a IV going with 2 antibotics that can only go at certain hour........she was also vomiting with it

thats the one kaiz... hope she feels better quickly for.

Yip, dose her up big time on cranberry juice and as much water as possible.

I use to get lots of UTI's and at about 12 I had to go on low dose AB's for 3 months to get rid of it completely.

She's back to how she was this morning And that's despite having nurofen and pamol.

I've just called the childrens ward, they are going to get a doctor to call me back..

Did they do a scan??? Sounds like it could be a kidney stone which would be very painful. Hope you are on your way to the hospital.