So angry!

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I was so angry I couldn’t believe it! I came home and found Kayleigh’s empty syringe from daycare it contained 15mls of zegerid. She was supposed to have 5 MLS at school. Not 15! They gave her the whole syringe! I had to fill out 3 seperate forms for her to even receive her meds at school and they go and ignore the dosing! OMG what if it had been her seizure meds or something else! I can only thank god it was a PPI. The assistant director told me “we are so sorry” that’s it. Not does she need medical intervention or can this overdose cause problems. Nope just sorry. I guess I should be happy they even apologized. Not sure as I’m too angry to even think about it. GRRRR! Maybe I should give them the incorrect payment for the month then just say “oops I’m so sorry”!

[Anonymous]

wow..i would be fuming if that happened to us. that is so unacceptable. that last part you wrote was funny!

[Anonymous]

OMG…..What if it had been something fatal in an overdose? It’s bad enough they made the mistake, but their response is really unacceptable.

I guess that’s why some states now require special licenses for daycare workers to administer medications.

Scary.

[Anonymous]

lynn, one of my celiac daughters recently spent 2 1/2 months in seattle children’s hospital——and came home with her TTg levels elevated to over 100—-(were they giving gluten to her intravenously??!!) (she was 10 when she went in) i called and talked to them to try and figure out how this could have happened. because of this incident, the dietician held a meeting with the kitchen staff and another person told me it was an eye opener to her about the issue of cross-contamination that she never knew was a problem—-action was taken to make sure this wouldn’t happen to someone else.

try not to stay angry for too long, as it isn’t productive and be greatful that it wasn’t a dangerous med. meet with them and go over the precautions that they should be taking and the things they need to be doing so that this won’t happen to your child, or to anyone elses.

also, i wouldn’t give them the chance to make another mistake—-i’d only send the exact amount she needs from now on.

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Natalia and Christine, I think what made me so angry is that I felt like they weren’t even concerned that they had made a mistake. I did call and schedule an appt to speak with the director on Monday. I feel better knowing I have a plan of action and that I’ve taken some precautions so there won’t be a next time. I will still pay them the correct amount and I even thought about getting her teacher a flower to let her know I have forgiven her mistake but boy in those first few moments I confess I had some bad thoughts!

Christine, I agree it’s not productive to stay angry and it was amazing how much better I did feel after just “telling” somebody about the incident. Truthfully it happened on good day as far as things could go. We had a Dr appt already and had to go to the pharmacy also sooooo. I’ve got a new syringe that can be closed and sent to school with a single dose and I have a proper dosing (the 6 R’s of giving medication) paper from the DR’s office and I also typed up a med procedure for her teachers. I feel much better about sending her back to school . Thanks for listening to my rant. How is your daughter by the way? I have a cousin who is anorexic/bulimic(sp?) and it has not been fun watching her struggle. I’ll keep your family in our prayers.

A total side note if your family ever gets to Disneyland they are fantastic about cross contamination! We were so impressed I sent a thank you note to the head chef!

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[Anonymous]

Sounds like you handled it very well. (The teacher and director should be very thankful ). I’m glad you have a good plan to ensure her safety and that you feel better about sending her back to school. Hopefully this little “oops” of theirs will push them to look at their policies and procedures to prevent this from happening to another child.

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lynn—tianna is doing pretty well.

what kind of a reaction does your daughter get to gluten? will you be testing her for celiac when she gets older—–not that a diagnosis of celiac would make that much difference in how you feed her. since she has a gluten allergy, is it possible that she could outgrow that like some babies outgrow other allergies?

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When Kayleigh has gluten she has more severe reflux, black stools and complains of her tummy hurting as well as increased absence seizures. She was going to have a trial run of gluten early this summer but since we had an accidental ingestion and she didn’t do well her ped said 6 more months before we try again. So I may use her upcoming EEG w/gluten as a trial? Her ped and I are still hoping it’s an outgrowing type of allergy! Of course he told me she would outgrow reflux too! LOL then as she grew older he told me about 5% never do!

Testing for celiac is still on my mind I just am unsure of how much gluten she would have to have and for how long to make it a “good” test. Also her ped is sending us for more detailed allergy testing this Nov. since we can’t seem to make it off Zyrtec for a day without troubles.

It must have been so difficult for your children to go GF after having gluten for so long. I still count myself lucky we went Gf early on. Kayleigh really knows no different.

I’m glad Tianna is doing well I’ll keep her in our prayers as I know it is a long road ahead for her and your family.

[Anonymous]

i think that even on gluten, kayleigh is probably still too young for the celiac tests to be accurate. sylvia will be 3 in a few weeks and just yesterday i was talking to the doc about a concern i had about her that might be indicative of celiac. he said we could test her TTg levels, but mentioned that the tests aren’t real accurate at a young age.

celiac can cause dental enamel problems. i happen to see apicture that showed what it could look like—-and it looked EXACTLY like the marks on sylvia’s front teeth. he did tell me, though, that her teeth could have the marks because she had so much trouble growing when she was younger.

i hope kayleigh has the kind of allergy she can outgrow. celiac has not been as difficult as i thought it would be—–but i’d still rather my girls didn’t have it!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

I would be furious too. I agree with the others, I would only take the amount she needed to get during the day to avoid any more potential mistakes.

Seth’s daycare went to a policy where only the directors can dose medicine now (and only at certain times) which I did initially have a problem with. It really is this way though to take the liability off of the teachers and I guess reasons like this is why. Scary.

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