When Your Child Has An Emergency, Choose the Lone Star Standard in Emergency Care
When your child is sick or hurt, the last thing you want to do is sit in an emergency room waiting room for hours with your child.
Our emergency pediatricians at Lonestar 24hr ER have emergency care experience treating children who have suffered accidents, injuries, and illnesses. We can diagnose and treat all conditions from broken bones to life threatening situations.
Our facilities are equipped with private rooms, a team that knows how to treat children, and families. We also have diagnostic imaging and labs with fast results for any emergency. Allowing us to provide your child with the best care possible as soon as possible.
When Should I Bring My Child To A Pediatric Emergency Room?
Our pediatric ER physicians are trained and experienced in diagnosing children of any age in any emergency situation. Call now to let us know you are coming in or just walk in the door and we will take care of your emergency immediately.
If your child is showing any of the following, bring them in now:
- Choking, or something stuck in the throat, nose, or ear – Often batteries, toys, medication or anything toxic.
- Breathing problems — wheezing, asthma attacks, and flaring nostrils.
- Color changes of eyes, skin, lips, nails, and fingers
- Loss of consciousness or hard to stay awake
- Seizures, stiffening, or loss of sensation
- Fever that won’t come down in children, or infants under 3 months
- Chronic illness, cancer, or weakened immune system
- Severe pain from known and unknown causes
- Severe stomach pain anywhere in the abdomen area
- Head trauma — Especially if your child is vomiting, forgetful, confused, or sleepy
- Sudden and unusual behavior — cannot remember a family member or acting off
- Allergic reactions — trouble breathing, hives, including swelling of face or lips
- Wounds and bad cuts — constant bleeding or in need of stitches
- Burns of any degree and anywhere on the body
- Broken or fractured bones and dislocations – especially if swelling, deformed, or cannot use the limb.
- Animal bites, insect stings, and snake bites – if venomous, try to identify or take an image of the snake or spider
- Electrical shock — even if your child seems ok after it happens
- Vomiting and diarrhea – cannot keep anything down for extended periods
- Dehydration — Your child needs help if there is no wet diaper in multiple hours, dry mouth or lips, no tears, eyes sunken, unusually sleepy
- Asthma attack if an inhaler isn’t helping
- Accidents — for any and all car wrecks, falls from height, sports injuries, ATV crashes. Even if there are no severe symptoms immediately.
Call 911 And Don’t Drive If:
- A child is not breathing, or their breathing has slowed to a dangerous rate
- If their lips or face are turning blue or gray
- Cannot wake them up
- They are having a seizure that has lasted more than 3-4 minutes, or not coming out of the seizure at all.
- Bleeding that you are not able to stop.
- Suspected poisoning, overdose, or they have swallowed something
- When they are choking and you cannot clear their airway
Types Of Pediatric Emergencies We Treat At Our ER
We are an Emergency Room like any hospital ER, which means we can treat children of any age for:
- Fevers in infants, toddlers, and older children
- Infections, sore throats, strep, flu, RSV, COVID, croup
- Asthma attacks, including wheezing, bronchitis, pneumonia
- Stomach illness, pain, bugs, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration
- UTIs and painful urination
- Rashes, blisters, hives, and allergic reactions
- Cuts, scrapes, lacerations, road rash
- Broken bones, sprains, dislocations, sports injuries
- Head bumps, concussions, whiplash
- Burns and scalding
- Eye injuries and something stuck in the eye
- Foreign objects in the ear, nose, or throat
- Bug bites, bee stings, snake bites, animal bites
- Febrile seizures and first-time seizures
- Severe abdominal pain, suspected appendicitis
- Dehydration needing IV fluids
- Accidental medication or household product ingestion (after Poison Control)
The Benefits of Choosing Lone Star 24 Hour ER for Your Child
- You will not have to wait for hours like you do at hospital ERs Our average wait time for a child is 10-15 minutes after they are checked in.
- No crowded rooms with sick children and adults You came here to get well, not catch another illness.
- A real emergency physician will see your child, not a nurse or PA
- We are a stand-alone ER Which means we have X-rays, CT scans, ultrasound, blood work, IVs, breathing treatments, stitches, splinting — all right here, right away.
- You stay with your child the entire time
- Straight-forward billing Up front and transparent with a billing team ready to answer your questions.
- Calm, private, clean
What to Bring If You Can
Please don’t worry about these recommendations if your child is seriously sick or hurt — just come in and we will work with you as we go.
- Insurance card and a photo ID
- A list of medications your child takes, including doses
- A list of allergies, especially to medications
- Your pediatrician’s name and phone number
- Any recent test results, imaging, or paperwork
- A container of anything they may have swallowed, if that’s why you’re coming
- A comfort item — favorite blanket, stuffed animal, pacifier
You are your child’s advocate, we urge you to ask questions and speak up if something does not make sense to you.
Upon release, we will make sure you understand your aftercare instructions before you leave, including what to watch for, when to give the next dose of medication, and what to do if symptoms get worse.
Once you get home, we recommend following up with your child’s pediatrician. We can send them anything you need from notes to a quick call if they have questions.
