Moms - Watch Out For This!

Sometimes ya just have to sit and admit that you’ve had one helluva week and that you’re really thankful everyone got through it okay.

My 13-year-old son, CJ, is a stereotypical, active young man. He skateboards, plays baseball, football and generally tries anything that has the potential of landing him at the clinic or hospital.

But sometimes, even a ‘normal’ childhood injury can turn deadly. Here’s CJ’s latest ‘terror story’ (at least, it was terror for mom!).

It was last Sunday and he had baseball practice in the gym. While diving for a grounder he scraped the inside of his elbow. No big deal - it was one of those normal, every-day ‘berry’ scrapes that kids get HUNDREDS of.

The following FRIDAY (note: dang near a week later), he wakes up, comes downstairs and goes “Mom, my elbow hurts. And, my armpit hurts too.”

I do the normal mom thing and simply replied, “Ok, lemme see it.”

I look at this kid’s elbow and it’s the size of a tennis ball. Hot, red. With red streaks going clean up to his armpit. Well, since he’s my sixth kid, and since I’ve had more than my share of holistic health training, I knew this was bad news.

I dumped Tea Tree oil on it and told him to get his shoes on, we were off to the doctor, pronto. (Even though I FIRMLY believe in holistic health care, I still realize and understand that there are times when allopathic medicine is *necessary* - this would be a good lesson for some proponents of natural health to learn, in my opinion)

Within minutes of the doctor taking a look, he was admitted into the hospital and on IV antibiotics. He had staph. Scary, scary word for those of us who know what that is - it can be one, very contagious, very prolific, very hard-to-get-rid of, nasty infection.

Now, he’s bored. He FEELS fine and he sure as heck doesn’t feel like sitting in a hospital room. Trying to explain the dangers of what is going on to a kid who just wants to go back to baseball practice can be tough - but, we go through it.

When the doc figured out that IV antibiotics were not doing the trick (the wound site was getting larger, not smaller) - he added in oral antibiotics.

A long story, short - he was in the hospital several days and on antibiotics for a week thereafter. He’s back to his old self and that little ’scrape’ is becoming less noticeable every day.

My point? If your child gets an injury which breaks the skin, keep an eye on it. If it gets swollen, red and hot - it’s called Cellulitis and it’s very few steps away from the kid having a systemic staph infection and being what is called ’septic’ - this is NOT good and can be life-threatening. If an injury EVER gets red streaks going outwards from it, seek medical attention *immediately* - this is another step closer to being septic and it means that the infection is moving to the lymph glands from where it can be spread to other parts of the body.

So, even a little cut has the potential to be a big deal. Pay attention and don’t hesitate to take your child into his or her doc if an infection or swelling occurs.

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