6 year old female, 24kg, UK. Existing health conditions metabolic hypoglycaemia, asthma, reflux, is gastrostomy fed.
Daughter (6) was discharged from hospital on Friday, after a week long admission. Was originally took down by ambulance with suspected appendicitis, saw the surgical team in a&e who also suspected it, but it was 1am and the reg was in theatre. They didn’t think it needed emergency surgery right there and then, so she went to ward and they said they’d come see her next day to review.
The next morning she had an abdominal xray which showed she was really impacted, surgeons called off and impaction plan started then admitted for a week as daughter has a lot of other health conditions and needed iv glucose as wasn’t tolerating her tube feeds. Discharged Friday evening to continue disimpaction plan as she was finally tolerating tube feeds again.
Were now on 6 sachets of movicol today and tomorrow will be back to 4 (usual dose). Pain has still been there this week but manageable, still not 100% but has been playing and watching tv then tonight has been worse. She’s still complaining of right handed stomach pain, pain in her right side when pressing on the left which is what made them think appendicitis in the first place. She has been impacted a lot in the past, and she definitely was extremely impacted but will say the pain she was describing was a lot different to usual.
Should I still be worried in case it has been appendicitis? Now I’m reading that it is common to feel better for a few days then pain gets worse!
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Would consider getting her reevaluated if the pain is worse