The clinic was really busy the other days, probably because of not being able to get into the doctors the last week.
We had one six day old baby come into the clinic Tuesday with high bilirubin levels and we had to admit her and put her in phototherapy. Her parents were very bright and her father went home and did all sorts of research on jaundice on the internet. After two days she went home. Her bilirubins spiked again over the weekend, but they kept putting her out into the sun and they came back down and she is doing good, now she’d getting a suntan.
Dr. Hott did a presentation on CPR, he had videos in Spanish. I didn’t get as much out of it, but I think the social service doctors did, so that’s what matters.
We did see two kids with malaria this week, and the let us see their blood smears in the lab. Other than that, lots of the ‘usual’, colds, scabies, ear infections, and parasites.
