This isn't totally related to CAC, but you all seem to know a lot. My almost five year old son went swimming at a water park about a week ago. And just a couple days ago he told me that his pee hurts ever since he went swimming. OK, well I figured the chlorine probably irritated his skin, no biggie. (He is intact, and has never had a problem.) It should go away on its own. But he told me this in a store, and said he had to pee. So I took him to the bathroom, and since there were automatic flush toilets (which he hates), I went in with him to put my hand over the sensor so it wouldn't flush while he was going. His urine looked fine to me, but at the very end, the last pee to dribble out looked very bloody. A drop ended up on the toilet seat, and it looked sort of streaked with blood. That is scary to see, but I didn't want to alarm my son, so I quickly wiped it off with some toilet paper, and we went to wash up.
I thought it's probably a UTI, and a course of atbx should clear it right up. I took him to urgent care and they tested his urine. Surprisingly, the test showed no bacteria and no blood. HUH??? Can someone explain this?
The next day, I called our regular pediatrician for a follow-up. I explained the whole story to the nurse, she had to get his records from urgent care, and consult with the pediatrician, and then call me back later. But when she called back, she was just going on and on about DS being 'uncircumcised', and he could have all these different problems. She said maybe the hole of his foreskin is too small if he is ballooning when he pees. I said he doesn't have any ballooning. But she was just going on and on about his foreskin causing pain, and I should watch him pee, and blah blah blah. I was super pissed at this point, because I know ballooning is a normal stage of development. Then she said the red color can be caused by a lot of different things, like food colors. But I explained that it wasn't the whole pee that was colored, it was just at the end, it was like some drops of blood. But she insisted that it was from something he ate. And I'm thinking, "Um, no lady, it was blood, and it came from inside of him, like a little puddle of blood had been floating on top of his urine in his bladder, the way it came out at the end like that." And I'm just wondering if it's possible that he was bleeding somewhere inside, then it stopped, that's why it's gone now. And come on, really, let's put this together, boy says his pee hurts, and there is visible blood, but it must be red food coloring?
But I managed to listen to the nurse's ignorance (without swearing) long enough to make a follow up appointment for tomorrow. Also within 12 hours of the bloody pee, my son said it stopped hurting, and he seems fine, so I'm not really worried anyway.
It's just shocking to hear this crap, when our pediatrician has always seemed so educated on intact boys. At our first appointment, SHE told ME that it's normal for foreskins to not be retractable until the teen years, and she has never attempted to retract my sons in the almost 2 years we've been seeing her.
One thing that does worry me is that my children's father had a kidney stone once, and my sister is a chronic former of kidney stones. I wonder if DS could have passed a little kidney stone. I know it's really painful for my sister, but my ex-husband passed one once and never knew he even formed it. It just came out and caused a lot of local irritation and pain in the pee hole right at the end of the penis. That's it, no flank pain or bladder pain for him.
But then, DS was hurting right after playing at the water park, so it really could just be chlorine irritation. But then was it blood or not???
I thought it's probably a UTI, and a course of atbx should clear it right up. I took him to urgent care and they tested his urine. Surprisingly, the test showed no bacteria and no blood. HUH??? Can someone explain this?
The next day, I called our regular pediatrician for a follow-up. I explained the whole story to the nurse, she had to get his records from urgent care, and consult with the pediatrician, and then call me back later. But when she called back, she was just going on and on about DS being 'uncircumcised', and he could have all these different problems. She said maybe the hole of his foreskin is too small if he is ballooning when he pees. I said he doesn't have any ballooning. But she was just going on and on about his foreskin causing pain, and I should watch him pee, and blah blah blah. I was super pissed at this point, because I know ballooning is a normal stage of development. Then she said the red color can be caused by a lot of different things, like food colors. But I explained that it wasn't the whole pee that was colored, it was just at the end, it was like some drops of blood. But she insisted that it was from something he ate. And I'm thinking, "Um, no lady, it was blood, and it came from inside of him, like a little puddle of blood had been floating on top of his urine in his bladder, the way it came out at the end like that." And I'm just wondering if it's possible that he was bleeding somewhere inside, then it stopped, that's why it's gone now. And come on, really, let's put this together, boy says his pee hurts, and there is visible blood, but it must be red food coloring?
But I managed to listen to the nurse's ignorance (without swearing) long enough to make a follow up appointment for tomorrow. Also within 12 hours of the bloody pee, my son said it stopped hurting, and he seems fine, so I'm not really worried anyway.
It's just shocking to hear this crap, when our pediatrician has always seemed so educated on intact boys. At our first appointment, SHE told ME that it's normal for foreskins to not be retractable until the teen years, and she has never attempted to retract my sons in the almost 2 years we've been seeing her.
One thing that does worry me is that my children's father had a kidney stone once, and my sister is a chronic former of kidney stones. I wonder if DS could have passed a little kidney stone. I know it's really painful for my sister, but my ex-husband passed one once and never knew he even formed it. It just came out and caused a lot of local irritation and pain in the pee hole right at the end of the penis. That's it, no flank pain or bladder pain for him.
But then, DS was hurting right after playing at the water park, so it really could just be chlorine irritation. But then was it blood or not???
not in diapers so their urine is examined less often.
