Sorry this is long.
DS2, 9 mos old, had a high fever for 2 days. Like spiking to 106, and hovering around 102. It was better this morning, then started going up again, so I took him to Dr. Our regular (awesome) ped was not in the office, so we saw another Dr.
No other symptoms, so she suggests possibility of UTI. I kind of think she went for this just because DS is intact.
But he really has no other symptoms except that he doesn't want any solid foods. She then says she hates the idea of having to catheterize him, so she wants to bag him for a urine sample instead. If the sample is negative, great. If not, then she'd consider the need to do a catheter for a clean sample. I agreed, thinking this would be non-invasive.
The long and short of it is that he was retracted by the nurse who was cleaning him with betadine to get a clean sample. I kind of freaked, and she said she was trying to make sure he was really clean so that the sample wouldn't yield a false positive and we'd avoid a more painful situation with a catheter.
I feel so terrible for letting this happen. DS seems okay now, but we never even got the sample because he just refused to pee in the bag. The nurse sent me home with some supplies to try to get a sample myself at home, and ds still has a fever.
What should I be doing at this point? I don't want to completely discount the possibility of UTI, since he's had a high fever, but I also feel like this Dr. jumped to that conclusion just based on his intact status. I'm afraid that if I bring a sample to the lab that is positive for bacteria they'll recommend a cath and that will be worse.
Anyone have any advice? I'm in CA and supposedly only 50% of boys here are circed, so I took for granted that I wouldn't run into something like this.
DS2, 9 mos old, had a high fever for 2 days. Like spiking to 106, and hovering around 102. It was better this morning, then started going up again, so I took him to Dr. Our regular (awesome) ped was not in the office, so we saw another Dr.
No other symptoms, so she suggests possibility of UTI. I kind of think she went for this just because DS is intact.
But he really has no other symptoms except that he doesn't want any solid foods. She then says she hates the idea of having to catheterize him, so she wants to bag him for a urine sample instead. If the sample is negative, great. If not, then she'd consider the need to do a catheter for a clean sample. I agreed, thinking this would be non-invasive.The long and short of it is that he was retracted by the nurse who was cleaning him with betadine to get a clean sample. I kind of freaked, and she said she was trying to make sure he was really clean so that the sample wouldn't yield a false positive and we'd avoid a more painful situation with a catheter.
I feel so terrible for letting this happen. DS seems okay now, but we never even got the sample because he just refused to pee in the bag. The nurse sent me home with some supplies to try to get a sample myself at home, and ds still has a fever.
What should I be doing at this point? I don't want to completely discount the possibility of UTI, since he's had a high fever, but I also feel like this Dr. jumped to that conclusion just based on his intact status. I'm afraid that if I bring a sample to the lab that is positive for bacteria they'll recommend a cath and that will be worse.
Anyone have any advice? I'm in CA and supposedly only 50% of boys here are circed, so I took for granted that I wouldn't run into something like this.
and he was negative for a UTI. Hooray!
