When to Take Your Child to the Doctor

Dr. Barry Hainer discusses symptoms to help parents determine whether to take their child to the doctor.

How do I know when to take my sick child in to see the doctor? Dr. Barry Hainer: If your child is sick and you are tying to determine if it’s important to visit the Doctor I think there are a number of warning symptoms and activities that would want you to make a physician visit. Obviously, difficulty breathing is a serious problem that should never be ignore it and may have require either a physicians office visit or an emergency room visit. A child who has been not taking in food and drink and specially one who also is vomiting or has diarrhea maybe at risk for a worries on degree of dehydration or loss of fluids. Sometimes this is seen by in younger children, the absence of tears when they’re crying or the reduction in the production of urine, they have diverse if they’re in diaper toddler age or an infant stage. High fever usually defined as over 101 or 101. 5. Although not necessarily a sign of the serious illness is something to be alert too and maybe a good reason on its one specially if associated with other symptoms to visit the physician. Children who are in the toddler stage and normally it walk and who are refusing too or not walking that’s a change in there normal activity that would require a physician visit I think to understand why there previously accomplish skill is something that are refusing to pursue. Other symptoms were concerns obviously would be blood loss or bleeding and burns etc. emergency is sorts of circumstances that would be reasons to seek emergency care.