Would you admit to hospital a baby with a slim chance of meningitis at the risk of causing the parents unnecessary stress and using a much-needed bed? A GP from the north of England reveals what happened when he faced just such a choice
A mother brought her baby, who was less than one-year-old, to me.
The child had a temperature of 39 degrees, a rash and was vomiting. The first-time mum was very worried her baby might have meningitis.
I had to decide whether these were the deadly signs of meningitis or a viral infection. Was the vomiting normal regurgitation or something out of the ordinary? The rash was not the one typically seen in meningitis.
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