[CaptainK]

I sincerely hope you are not posting a tragic bogus story to prove a point.
I have never heard of a doctor's office giving out sugar water. Pedialyte can be purchased in any grocery or drug store without a prescription. If a parent knows what pedialyte is I would assume that they would purchase it themselves if they were advised that none was available at the doctors office. If a doctors office was not correctly treating a vomiting child a trip to the emergency ward at a near by hospital would be the next course of action for most parents.
I'm sorry but you story does not ring true.

[luckystarmom]

It is not bogus. The doctor's offices (and hospitals) have lots of little bottles of glucose water.

I'll freepmail you details if you like.

Pedialyte can be purchased, and we did purchase it after we gave her a bottle of the glucose water. It was a nurse practioner that saw her, and not the doctor. I don't think any doctor would have sent us home with glucose water. Unfortunately, she threw up the pedialyte, so the on-call nurse said to give her more glucose water. They should not have sent us home with the glucose water, or told us to give her more.

She was only 7 1/2 pounds and 6 weeks old. She was born 4 weeks early because she was a twin. She was running a fever, she was congested and having breathing problems, and she was vomitting. She should have been put in the hospital to run tests, and they didn't do that. It was a few days before Christmas in 1996, and I think most of the doctors just were too busy with holiday preparations.