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Need Help on Child's Burns (Vanity)
Offline | 8-7-09 | Self

Posted on 08/07/2009 12:02:45 AM PDT by dannyboy72a

MY 7 yr old, autistic son, Matthew came home from his mother's house today with blisters on his arm and leg. I have tried to call her repeatedly to find out the source of the blisters, but no return call. So, I'm hoping some of the parents here will have seen something similar and can tell me whether it's something i need to be concerned about.

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There are four burns on him. Two on his inner forearm, a large grouping of blisters on his inner calf, and a small one just above the large one on the leg. I don't know if these are fire burns, chemical burns or burns at all.

With Matthew being autistic, he is unable to tell me how he got them and his mother either is not aware of them (which is not impossible as she tends to pawn the kids off on grandma or others the limited time she has them) or is aware of what happened and does not want to admit to whatever it is. Either way, the sores cannot be more than three days old as she picked them up Monday morning and dropped them off Thursday afternoon.

If anyone can tell me whether this is something to be concerned about, whether it merits a doctor's visit.


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KEYWORDS: autism; blisters; burn
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To: LukeL

That is exactly what poison ivy poisoning looks like. I had it a dozen times a year when I was a kid.


21 posted on 08/07/2009 12:27:18 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Born to Conserve

Nice. Big fan of letting boys be boys and getting themselves into trouble, but when you have a son who cannot protect himself verbally or report injuries to you, you get a different perspective. So before you start encouraging a parent of an autistic child to shirk their duties and have “a drink”, grow up a little.


22 posted on 08/07/2009 12:27:59 AM PDT by dannyboy72a (The President of the United States should not be selling me insurance or lightbulbs)
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To: Born to Conserve

If you don’t want to be helpful, leave the thread. It’s not poison Ivy. I’ve had it many time and tell me how a boy can get poison ivy on the inside of his arm and not anywhere else on his arm. High up on his calve, and nowhere else on thast same leg? Maybe you should have a drink and go find another thread to jeer.


23 posted on 08/07/2009 12:30:11 AM PDT by dannyboy72a (The President of the United States should not be selling me insurance or lightbulbs)
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To: Born to Conserve
"Poison ivy."

that was my first guess. Poison oak, sumac, or wild cow parsnip can leave large water blisters. My youngest tried to eat cow parsnip when he was about 3, and suffered blisters all over his face, mouth, and belly. I think he still has a couple of scars at age 36.

24 posted on 08/07/2009 12:32:52 AM PDT by redhead (Check the Half-Baked Sourdough!)
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To: dannyboy72a

Not to throw oil on the fire but is he itching the blisters or are they painful? Burns usually only itch when the dead skin starts to flake off.


25 posted on 08/07/2009 12:34:36 AM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: dannyboy72a
Look at the pictures on wikipedia under “poison ivy”.

If you want your son to have an idiot for a father, than call the police and report your ex for pouring acid on your son.

It is contact dermatitis, and I have been trying to be useful, but you are an idiot who is looking to screw your ex.

26 posted on 08/07/2009 12:35:34 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: dannyboy72a

Please invite me to any custody hearings so I can testify for your ex.

I know people who have gotten poison ivy blisters on their neck from wearing a just washed shirt that had been slobbered on by a poison ivy eating horse six months before.


27 posted on 08/07/2009 12:39:37 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Born to Conserve

Unless you have dealt with special needs children before you should back off. Autistic children have a hard time describing feelings like hunger, of fear let alone understanding how some marks magically appeared on their body.


28 posted on 08/07/2009 12:39:46 AM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: Bellflower

Well, we’ve had all kinds of problems with his mother. We took the kids for all but 10 days over the last 5 months to let her “get her life together”. But every time he comes back from a day or two with her, it’s something else and it’s gettig ridiculous. This might be something and silly as him bumping into a candle and having wax burn him or him jumping up on her while she was having a cigarette.

I’m not looking to get her in trouble or involve authorities, I just want to know what it is and I wasn’t getting any answers from her, so I turned to you folks, hoping that someone who has seen similar could tell me it’s no big deal, keep it clean and it’ll heal fine - which is I’m sure the answer. But what caused it and should it have been prevented and how can it be prevented in the future. That’s my purpose here.


29 posted on 08/07/2009 12:40:39 AM PDT by dannyboy72a (The President of the United States should not be selling me insurance or lightbulbs)
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To: dannyboy72a

contact allergy or staph...if they turn blue...then staph

don’t waste your time with old antibiotics...most staph nowadays is used to the old ones

maybe old Bactrim but if not that then the newfangled Miacins...

poor feller


30 posted on 08/07/2009 12:40:49 AM PDT by wardaddy (ASAP, as southern as possible.......Sarah Palin, i love you)
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To: Born to Conserve

This is what poison ivy looks like and believe me autism or not this kid would have scratched at his rash until be broke skin and drew blood.

31 posted on 08/07/2009 12:41:31 AM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: Born to Conserve

that ain’t poison ivy...my 6 year old has it right now...that ain’t it


32 posted on 08/07/2009 12:41:56 AM PDT by wardaddy (ASAP, as southern as possible.......Sarah Palin, i love you)
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To: dannyboy72a

You need to call the cops. Period. And go to court to get her visitation stopped, she or her boyfriend are sadists or stupid or both.


33 posted on 08/07/2009 12:42:27 AM PDT by hulagirl (Mother Theresa was right)
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To: LukeL

“Unless you have dealt with special needs children”

What does this have to do with if it is or is not poison ivy!?

That photo is a perfect example of poison ivy!

I’m surrounded by idiots!

Ahhhhhhhhhhh!


34 posted on 08/07/2009 12:42:51 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Born to Conserve

You know...you are being a very big asshat.

Why don’t you find another thread to go disturb.


35 posted on 08/07/2009 12:43:23 AM PDT by wardaddy (ASAP, as southern as possible.......Sarah Palin, i love you)
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To: dannyboy72a

You need to call the police and/or Social Services and let them get to the bottom of what is happening when he is with his mother....


36 posted on 08/07/2009 12:44:11 AM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Born to Conserve

If I invite you to the custody hearing it’ll be to kick your ass you peasant. I’m asking a legitimate question, looking for some feedback from others. At 2am, this is the only place to get a live response. Instead of trying to be helpful, you feel it is your right to be an assh#le.

You’re the dumb as a rock 11th grade bully who thinks he knows everything. No wonder you have no family.


37 posted on 08/07/2009 12:44:37 AM PDT by dannyboy72a (The President of the United States should not be selling me insurance or lightbulbs)
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To: LukeL

Why is it our biggest jerks here almost never even post their flag on their homepage?

This person asks sincerely for help and half the thread is a big Conservaturd in the punch bowl.


38 posted on 08/07/2009 12:45:08 AM PDT by wardaddy (ASAP, as southern as possible.......Sarah Palin, i love you)
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To: Born to Conserve

It has a lot to do with it. His son cannot describe how things happened to him or what he is feeling at any given moment. To make a more common example, what if your parent who has dementia suddenly had burns or blisters on his arm when you visited him at the nursing home and no one knew how it happened? Wouldn’t you want some answers.


39 posted on 08/07/2009 12:45:45 AM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: LukeL

I would look at the blisters and think “oh, I wonder how he got poison ivy?”

His mental state would not enter in to it.


40 posted on 08/07/2009 12:47:54 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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