When to Call the Doctor

Call your baby's health care provider if your baby:

  • Has a blue tint around the nose, lips or on the skin

  • Is paler than usual

  • Refuses to eat

  • Is more irritable than usual

  • Is less active than usual

  • Vomits (not spit-up or reflux)

  • Has trouble breathing

  • Has a change in breathing pattern

  • Has diarrhea for more than a day

  • Has a change in bowel habits

  • Has a fever higher than 100.4 degrees, taken rectally

  • Has one or more apnea episodes, or as instructed by your doctor (apnea is periodic interruption of breathing)

  • Just doesn't seem “right” or well to you

REMEMBER: If you think something is wrong, check with your baby's health care provider. 

September 2007

 


  
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