A common symptom seen in the sick preschool age patient is anorexia or loss of appetite. This is normal but in a pediatric preschool-aged patient, this is still something that bears watching as their metabolism increases when they are sick and they are at increased risk of dehydration.
I am recalling this statement from my trusty old pediatric nursing texts…and I am stressing, just a little. I can’t help myself.
Our little man has been eating by mouth completely for over a month. He gained weight enough to make the pedi happy and to have him direct me to call the GI doc to ask that we remove Daniel’s gastrostomy tube. What agreat daythat was!
But the last three days as this simple upper respiratory virus has been knocking him on his butt, I have watched his appetite dwindle more and more. He is even turning down ice cream, pudding, cookies and his ultimate favorite: French fries and ketchup. he is eating…one or two bites every few hours or so when I beg and entice him with anything he wants. Thankfully he is guzzling iced juice like it is going out of style. He also is pooping and peeing just fine. But still I can’t help but worry.
That g-tube button is still there and I do know how to use it. I have the tubing, the syringes, the blender. I remind Daniel of that and he emphatically tells me “NO!”
Well now, I have been told by a four year old.
Sigh!
A common symptom seen in the sick preschool age patient is anorexia or loss of appetite.
Bill reminds me of this as I wring my hands just a little.
Damn!
He maintains that he can not read my mind even after being with me for 23+ years and yet he knows what I am thinking as I dump the virtually untouched cup of curdled pudding in the trash after tucking Daniel in.
A common symptom seen in the sick preschool age patient is anorexia or loss of appetite.
True.
But because in a pediatric preschool-aged patient, this is still something that bears watching as their metabolism increases when they are sick and they are at increased risk of dehydration; mama RN is watching very closely with tubing, syringe andblenderready.
A common symptom seen in the sick preschool age patient is anorexia or loss of appetite. This is normal but in a pediatric preschool-aged patient, this is still something that bears watching as their metabolism increases when they are sick and they are at increased risk of dehydration.
I am recalling this statement from my trusty old pediatric nursing texts…and I am stressing, just a little. I can’t help myself.
Our little man has been eating by mouth completely for over a month. He gained weight enough to make the pedi happy and to have him direct me to call the GI doc to ask that we remove Daniel’s gastrostomy tube. What agreat daythat was!
But the last three days as this simple upper respiratory virus has been knocking him on his butt, I have watched his appetite dwindle more and more. He is even turning down ice cream, pudding, cookies and his ultimate favorite: French fries and ketchup. he is eating…one or two bites every few hours or so when I beg and entice him with anything he wants. Thankfully he is guzzling iced juice like it is going out of style. He also is pooping and peeing just fine. But still I can’t help but worry.
That g-tube button is still there and I do know how to use it. I have the tubing, the syringes, the blender. I remind Daniel of that and he emphatically tells me “NO!”
Well now, I have been told by a four year old.
Sigh!
A common symptom seen in the sick preschool age patient is anorexia or loss of appetite.
Bill reminds me of this as I wring my hands just a little.
Damn!
He maintains that he can not read my mind even after being with me for 23+ years and yet he knows what I am thinking as I dump the virtually untouched cup of curdled pudding in the trash after tucking Daniel in.
A common symptom seen in the sick preschool age patient is anorexia or loss of appetite.
True.
But because in a pediatric preschool-aged patient, this is still something that bears watching as their metabolism increases when they are sick and they are at increased risk of dehydration; mama RN is watching very closely with tubing, syringe andblenderready.
A common symptom seen in the sick preschool age patient is anorexia or loss of appetite. This is normal but in a pediatric preschool-aged patient, this is still something that bears watching as their metabolism increases when they are sick and they are at increased risk of dehydration.
I am recalling this statement from my trusty old pediatric nursing texts…and I am stressing, just a little. I can’t help myself.
Our little man has been eating by mouth completely for over a month. He gained weight enough to make the pedi happy and to have him direct me to call the GI doc to ask that we remove Daniel’s gastrostomy tube. What agreat daythat was!
But the last three days as this simple upper respiratory virus has been knocking him on his butt, I have watched his appetite dwindle more and more. He is even turning down ice cream, pudding, cookies and his ultimate favorite: French fries and ketchup. he is eating…one or two bites every few hours or so when I beg and entice him with anything he wants. Thankfully he is guzzling iced juice like it is going out of style. He also is pooping and peeing just fine. But still I can’t help but worry.
That g-tube button is still there and I do know how to use it. I have the tubing, the syringes, the blender. I remind Daniel of that and he emphatically tells me “NO!”
Well now, I have been told by a four year old.
Sigh!
A common symptom seen in the sick preschool age patient is anorexia or loss of appetite.
Bill reminds me of this as I wring my hands just a little.
Damn!
He maintains that he can not read my mind even after being with me for 23+ years and yet he knows what I am thinking as I dump the virtually untouched cup of curdled pudding in the trash after tucking Daniel in.
A common symptom seen in the sick preschool age patient is anorexia or loss of appetite.
True.
But because in a pediatric preschool-aged patient, this is still something that bears watching as their metabolism increases when they are sick and they are at increased risk of dehydration; mama RN is watching very closely with tubing, syringe andblenderready.
A common symptom seen in the sick preschool age patient is anorexia or loss of appetite. This is normal but in a pediatric preschool-aged patient, this is still something that bears watching as their metabolism increases when they are sick and they are at increased risk of dehydration.
I am recalling this statement from my trusty old pediatric nursing texts…and I am stressing, just a little. I can’t help myself.
Our little man has been eating by mouth completely for over a month. He gained weight enough to make the pedi happy and to have him direct me to call the GI doc to ask that we remove Daniel’s gastrostomy tube. What agreat daythat was!
But the last three days as this simple upper respiratory virus has been knocking him on his butt, I have watched his appetite dwindle more and more. He is even turning down ice cream, pudding, cookies and his ultimate favorite: French fries and ketchup. he is eating…one or two bites every few hours or so when I beg and entice him with anything he wants. Thankfully he is guzzling iced juice like it is going out of style. He also is pooping and peeing just fine. But still I can’t help but worry.
That g-tube button is still there and I do know how to use it. I have the tubing, the syringes, the blender. I remind Daniel of that and he emphatically tells me “NO!”
Well now, I have been told by a four year old.
Sigh!
A common symptom seen in the sick preschool age patient is anorexia or loss of appetite.
Bill reminds me of this as I wring my hands just a little.
Damn!
He maintains that he can not read my mind even after being with me for 23+ years and yet he knows what I am thinking as I dump the virtually untouched cup of curdled pudding in the trash after tucking Daniel in.
A common symptom seen in the sick preschool age patient is anorexia or loss of appetite.
True.
But because in a pediatric preschool-aged patient, this is still something that bears watching as their metabolism increases when they are sick and they are at increased risk of dehydration; mama RN is watching very closely with tubing, syringe andblenderready.