The message <007501c1e2e7$e75f74c0$d939ff3e@mukherjee>
from "ashes.mukherjee" <[log in to unmask]> contains these words:
> Jamie,
> Don't you think it would be useful to ask the Royal College of
> Radiologists as to where they found the '6-day' rule and as to whether
> it is their reccommendations that we suggest to every parent to sift
> through the stool till they find the FB, an action shown to be futile.
> I dont see myself telling anybody to return on the sixth day as I'm
> sure other docs who deal with these things will agree. But I guess
> that is because I read more into a policy than taking it as written in
> stone. But I presume if it were your decision you would be bringing
> all these people back on the sixth day and making a lot of people
> sifting through faeces.
My little niece (and my sister, her mother) were advised to keep
inspecting her stools for a swallowed coin. I told them not to bother,
as my practice is to advise people to return only if there is vomiting
or severe abdominal pain etc.
I am occasionally asked to arrange an X-ray for people who have not seen
a coin (or whatever but it usually *is* a coin) after a few days, often
because someone else has advised them to return. I usually decline such
requests.
Is anyone here still giving such advice? What is the rationale?
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Helen D. Vecht: [log in to unmask]
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