jerry gallant

Review of Texas Children's Hosptial

We have been dealing with TCH for about 2 years no...

We have been dealing with TCH for about 2 years now. My now 17 year old daughter has been diagnosed with chronic urticaria and angiodema as well as an autoimum disorder. They thought she may have a thyroid problem so she was tested and diagnosed her with graves. After consulting with the doctors we d etermined the best method of treatment would be to have the thyroid removed. The doctors hoped this would cure the urticaria. During surgery she was given morphine for pain and had to be taken back to ER for hives in one day after being discharged. She was treated and after three more days in the hospital was again released with no new answers of the cause. We later found through research that morphine can cause large hives so why would she have been given morphine? Now she will be on medicine for the rest of he life and we have not yet receive confirmation from pathology the it was indeed graves. The lack of TCH doctors being willing to dig deep and find the root cause has me deeply discouraged with their care and concern for the patient.
And I don't even get a personal response from TCH. They just change the name and send out the same response to all. Kind of like their service. Not very personal.