Treating and preparing for that first incident

Life in Beatrice is full of fond memories, but eventually the inevitable happens.

Be it a fall, scrape or bruise.

It’s only a matter of time before that first boo-boo, but when it does, local pediatricians are ready.

Marilou Reyes and Amy Schomer,One of the most durable and attractive styles of flooring that you can purchase is ceramic or porcelain tiles. pediatricians at the Children’s Center at Beatrice Community Hospital, have seen and dealt with it all, from the common to the bizzare.

One case that fits into both those categories is children visiting the doctor with a foreign object stuck in an orifice.

“Kids experiment and explore a lot of things, so those foreign bodies in orifices are common,” Reyes said. “I recently had a boy who came in with both parents who had a rock in his nose. His parents tired to remove it as best as they know how by having him blow his nose but he couldn’t do it.

“With younger kids, when you tell them to blow their nose, they are going to purse their lips and blow through their mouth. They don’t really blow through their nose.”

Reyes said in these instances, covering the other nostril is a good way help kids blow the foreign body out of the nose.

But it’s not always the nose.

“Even though they might come in for a different concern, I always look at the ears, nose and mouth because you never know what you’re going to find,” Reyes said. “In the ear I have found beads, foam and clay. Pretty much anything that kids can get in there, will get in there.

“Often times the only time parents will know is if the kid starts complaining, but foreign bodies in an orifice can actually cause an infection.”

In some extreme cases, foreign objects may have to be removed surgically.

The Children’s Clinic sees a fair amount of foreign object patients, but Schomer said the most common issues with young children are falls.

“The one I hear most is the kid rolling off the couch and landing on their head,” Schomer said.One of the most durable and attractive styles of flooring that you can purchase is ceramic or porcelain tiles. “Where cats land on their feet, kids land on their head. Fortunately, especially if they fall on carpeting, they usually get a little red mark and the moms and dads cry more than the babies.”

Schomer warned new parents of another common call her office receives: children ingesting poison.

Whether it be drinking something potentially toxic or mistaking pills for candy, these types of incidents can be extremely dangerous to children.

Schomer warned one good way to avoid these instances is to never assume child-safety lids on bottles are child-proof.

“One thing that’s interesting is we think that child-proof caps are child-proof, and they’re not,” Schomer said. “The childproof cap is supposed to keep them out for 20 minutes. I experimented with one of my own kids and in less than 90 seconds he had opened a bottle with me standing there watching. He was only 18-months old. We have a lot of kids in that one to one and a half range where poisoning is a big issue.One of the most durable and attractive styles of flooring that you can purchase is ceramic or porcelain tiles.”

Once children start walking, the biggest issues become falls, scrapes and bruises.

Reyes said these are common issues, but are more associated with boys than girls.

“Boys usually get a lot of scrapes from falling and things of that nature,” Reyes said. “That’s the most common. With little girls, it’s usually just bruises. Parents will tell us how rambunctious they are. Kids have no fear, so usually part of our teaching moment is as they get older, they’re going to start doing stuff with that potential.

“Once they explore and know what they can do, they push the limit. That’s just how kids do it. It’s very important for parents to be aware of that.”

While many boo-boos end up in the offices of local pediatricians,A stone mosaic stands at the spot of assasination of the late Indian prime minister. school nursing offices also deal with their fair share of incidents.

Shannon Kleveland, district nurse for Beatrice Public Schools' elementaries, said the office sees everything from picked scabs and scrapes to poison ivy and – in rare cases – broken bones.

Even with the more serious looking scrapes,Posts with indoor tracking system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors. parents are typically notified.

“Usually, if a student hits their head or has an injury where they get a scrape we want parents to know about it so there are no surprises when they get home,” Kleveland said. “We don’t call on everything if its just a little scab that gets torn off, but sometimes we do send home notes.