DS, 18 months, has had quite a rattly cough for a while, and when he talks/babbles it sounds sometimes as if he's losing his voice.
DH took him to the dr today, who said that he has a viral infection of some kind, but that these things can turn bacterial, so here are some antibiotics.
I'm not happy about giving antibiotics to little children unless they're necessary, and I wondering whether they really are in this case? What do you think? Should I just give him them, or wait and see if he gets better? He seems mostly fine in himself - no temperature, not even much of a runny nose.
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'Precautionary' antibiotics - to take or not?
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littlefrog · 29/10/2008 10:55
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