Do they ever put vaccines in the IV

[Ivan's Mom]

My 10 month old has to have a sedated CAT scan tomorrow with an IV of contrast dye also. Anybody have experience with this? How did your baby do? The sedative is oral chloralhydrate ("slipping her a mickey").

I am afraid for her to have an IV. Do hospitals ever vaccinate an unvaccinated child w/o telling the parents by putting it directly in the IV? Am I crazy to think this may happen?

[bremen]

i am no expert but in my experience, vaccines are injected into the muscle, not the vein
and in radiology, they wouldn't have vaccines there anyway.
i am sure you must be worrying about a lot right now, but i don't think vaccines in the iv are a concern

[Ivan's Mom]

Thanks mama, I like your logical thinking. I am so NOT logical. Especially today.

[alegna]

No, they can't put vaxes in an IV.

-Angela

[pantufla]

No. Vaccines are given intramuscularly, not intravenously. Hang in there, Mama.

[Ruthla]

It's hard to be logical with a sick kid to care for.

Even conventional medical doctors won't vaccinate a truly sick kid. I got some gentle pressure from the ped to give DS the pneumonia and flu vaccines this year, since he had pneumonia, but she wouldn't have done it while he was still sick. At the followup visit after the hospital, she told me to think about those vaccines, but she woudln't have done them that day even if I'd begged her to. When I took him for the 2nd followup, when she declared him healthy and wouldn't need to see him again until the next annual checkup unless he got ill again- THAT'S the day she wanted to vaccinate him. And she accepted my calm "no."

It's scary enough to see an almost 7yo in the hospital- I can only imagine what it must be like with a 10mo baby. You're under a heck of a lot of stress right now- but you can cross this one worry off your list.

[Ivan's Mom]

Thanks so much mamas. This was one of the demons haunting my mind this past week. We try so hard to research and do the right things for our babies and then we are told that we must subject them to IV's, 200 times the radiation of a x-ray, sedatives and fasting.

[spero]

Chloral Hydrate: What I WISH I'd been told!

Yes, it's the best thing to temporarily sedate with ... but I wish like hell that somebody had warned me beforehand.

Chloral Hydrate is nasty, NASTY stuff. My babe had it orally (I'm kind of surprised they're doing an IV on a 10-month old, orally is the preferred method for infants), the taste is awful. She drifted off very peacefully in my arms, though; and I carried her into the CT room. It took her a long time to wake up, and then my poor baby had a horrible time coming out of it ... scared the sh** out of me, how powerful that stuff is. My little girl was not herself at all, for about an hour....she seemed to not even know ME, and refused to nurse when I tried to calm her. She struggled to get down, but when I put her on the floor she toppled over and just started rolling all over and couldn't stop. She screamed and screamed nonstop. It was truly frightening, and I was very upset. NOBODY had told me that this was normal and would subside after an hour or so.

I just wish I'd been emotionally prepared for that.

[Ivan's Mom]

Originally Posted by spero

Chloral Hydrate is nasty, NASTY stuff. My babe had it orally (I'm kind of surprised they're doing an IV on a 10-month old, orally is the preferred method for infants), the taste is awful.

She is getting the sedation orally, and getting the contrast dye via IV. Sorry to confuse and so sorry your dear baby had that horrible reaction. How very scary for both of you.

[spero]

I hope that you and your baby have a better experience than we did, I just wanted you to know what CAN happen b/c nobody told me beforehand. I'll be thinking of you today.

[snuffles]

Originally Posted by spero

Yes, it's the best thing to temporarily sedate with ... but I wish like hell that somebody had warned me beforehand.

Chloral Hydrate is nasty, NASTY stuff. My babe had it orally (I'm kind of surprised they're doing an IV on a 10-month old, orally is the preferred method for infants), the taste is awful. She drifted off very peacefully in my arms, though; and I carried her into the CT room. It took her a long time to wake up, and then my poor baby had a horrible time coming out of it ... scared the sh** out of me, how powerful that stuff is. My little girl was not herself at all, for about an hour....she seemed to not even know ME, and refused to nurse when I tried to calm her. She struggled to get down, but when I put her on the floor she toppled over and just started rolling all over and couldn't stop. She screamed and screamed nonstop. It was truly frightening, and I was very upset. NOBODY had told me that this was normal and would subside after an hour or so.

I just wish I'd been emotionally prepared for that.

That's so tough. My 2 year old ds had general anesthesia a couple of months ago. He woke up and was inconsolable and so not himself for a few hours. Didn't want to nurse. It's a normal reaction but really, really hard to watch. Hope everything is okay with your dc.

[Marnica]

Originally Posted by Ivan's Mom

My 10 month old has to have a sedated CAT scan tomorrow with an IV of contrast dye also. Anybody have experience with this? How did your baby do? The sedative is oral chloralhydrate ("slipping her a mickey").

I am afraid for her to have an IV. Do hospitals ever vaccinate an unvaccinated child w/o telling the parents by putting it directly in the IV? Am I crazy to think this may happen?

Wondering how your LO is doing?? Thinking of you both. Hope all went well.

[BugMacGee]

No. Absolutely not.

[tylerdylan]

Originally Posted by spero

Yes, it's the best thing to temporarily sedate with ... but I wish like hell that somebody had warned me beforehand.

Chloral Hydrate is nasty, NASTY stuff. My babe had it orally (I'm kind of surprised they're doing an IV on a 10-month old, orally is the preferred method for infants), the taste is awful. She drifted off very peacefully in my arms, though; and I carried her into the CT room. It took her a long time to wake up, and then my poor baby had a horrible time coming out of it ... scared the sh** out of me, how powerful that stuff is. My little girl was not herself at all, for about an hour....she seemed to not even know ME, and refused to nurse when I tried to calm her. She struggled to get down, but when I put her on the floor she toppled over and just started rolling all over and couldn't stop. She screamed and screamed nonstop. It was truly frightening, and I was very upset. NOBODY had told me that this was normal and would subside after an hour or so.

I just wish I'd been emotionally prepared for that.

What happened to your DD is called Emergence Delirium. My DS gets it too, although no one admitted it the first few times it happened. It's not exactly "normal" although that is what we were led to believe the first few times too. It wasn't until DS was scheduled for major surgery that an Anesthetist came to speak with me and I brought up his past experiences and learned the truth and that they can try different things to prevent it. They have since tried different drugs for sedations and general anaesthetics and have found one that doesn't have that affect on his body. He wakes up calmly now and knows where he is and who I am. He is having another MRI in 2 days and I just got off the phone with them. They are promising to do everything the exact same as the last procedure he had done (it was minor surgery, but they can use the same drugs). There is no way of knowing which children will react with Emergence Delirium - I've been told it isn't all that common. We were told it's the gases they use to put DS under and not the drugs they use to keep him asleep that DS has a problem with. We've also noticed that the new drugs they use don't have a lasting effect on him like the others. He bounced back very quickly after his last surgery, whereas in the past he is run-down and acts strangely for 3-4 weeks after because of the drugs.

Hopefully your DD won't need any more sedations/anaesthetics, but if she does make sure they choose something from a different family of drugs. That worked for my DS!