Idaho Parents Take Boise Hospital to Court Over Newborn's Forced Spinal Tap
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Child had a fever of 100.8.
Only 5% chance the child had meningitis.
Baby's fever dropped while in the hospital waiting for other tests including fluids, x-rays and blood work, before spinal tap, and before police called. Mom started asking about taking child home. That's when the hospital called the police.
Mom was not allowed to call husband who was at home with other children and consult even him about the spinal tap.
100.8 is not even much of a fever...raised 5 and had emergency trips only twice...One was a temp 104. and pre epilepic (had seizure on way to hospital), the other was a high school foot ball injury, concussion...Any one that takes a child to the hospital for a 100.8 temp is nuts..unless there were other things wrong. 100.8 for inpatients when I worked in the hospital didn’t even get aspirin until 101. But you took the temp every 2 hours...