Health care and children getting sick in the winter (Grand Forks: daycare, home)

[VITAMINKA]

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How is health care in GF, I know there is a hospital , but how is a quality and do the kids get sick more often because it is so cold in the winter, than they would do in warmer climate?
Anybody have personal experience with those things? thanks

[DaninEGF]

Altru is the name of the big hospital/clinic in Grand Forks and it is very good, rated very highly. They just built a new cancer clinic. People can be sent down to Mayo in Rochester or to the University of Minnesota hospital for more specific services that the hospital does not provide. For general care, there is a new group of doctors not affiliated with Altru opening up in the south end of town in the new Aurora Medical Park and a new cancer center of North Dakota just opened up out there.

So for health care, you are in good hands with several options. UND does have a medical program and graduates doctors and there is a UND family care center near campus too, where students work.

As for cold weather causing colds....an old wives tale. Actually when it is really cold, germs have a harder time surviving. It is that moist, cold in the 20s and 30s that seems to chill you the worst. I have an 18 month old in daycare, and he gets the usual colds spread around daycare....but that is normal as kids that age touch everything.

[saucerrachel]

I am having problems with my 7 yr old. Since Oct. 13, 08, she has had pneumonia, an ear infection, strep throat, pink eye, a fever of, 106(unexplained) and a cold. She has lost weight, and stopped eating. Now she has pneumonia again. I am at my wits end trying to get her well. She has never been this sick. Her doctor told me to give her pediasure before bed for the last two weeks, and she has been taking vitamins. When she went back because of her cough, her weight was the same even though her appetite has improved some. I am considering a specialist.

[c0ldfuse]

Originally Posted by saucerrachel

I am having problems with my 7 yr old. Since Oct. 13, 08, she has had pneumonia, an ear infection, strep throat, pink eye, a fever of, 106(unexplained) and a cold. She has lost weight, and stopped eating. Now she has pneumonia again. I am at my wits end trying to get her well. She has never been this sick. Her doctor told me to give her pediasure before bed for the last two weeks, and she has been taking vitamins. When she went back because of her cough, her weight was the same even though her appetite has improved some. I am considering a specialist.

Completely normal for a doctor to tell someone with pneumonia to go home and take pediasure and not give oral antibotics.

How did they test for her pneumonia?

Additionally, the 'cold' doesn't make people sick. Being suck inside with others all day allows the spread of contagious illnesses more quickly and thoroughly.

[saucerrachel]

Originally Posted by c0ldfuse

Completely normal for a doctor to tell someone with pneumonia to go home and take pediasure and not give oral antibotics.

How did they test for her pneumonia?

Additionally, the 'cold' doesn't make people sick. Being suck inside with others all day allows the spread of contagious illnesses more quickly and thoroughly.

She had a chest x ray. She had bacterial pneumonia twice. He put her on pediasure because she was losing weight even before her second bout with pneumonia. She took antibiotics both times she had it. I didn't say cold made her sick. I said she had a cold in which she ran a fever of 106.