I am so sick and tired of our nursery's policy for conjunctivitis. It is making our lives a misery. My sons regularly catch it at nursery and we are supposed to get the chloramphenicol eye drops on prescription before they are allowed back. However the doctors are becoming increasingly reluctant to prescribe it and increasingly peed off at having their time wasted by it. There is no evidence that the drops are actually effective and overuse is increasing antibiotic resistance. My son caught it yet again over the weekend and I spent the whole of Saturday trying to get an appointment with the out of hours doctors, then practically had to beg him to prescribe the drops. Then I get a phone call today from nursery telling me to make yet another doctors appointment as my son's eyes are still swollen and weepy. I call the doctor and get a call back from a GP who then had a go at me for wasting his time. I am so sick and tired of it now. Does anyone else's nursery have a different policy? Also, Public Health England recommend that kids can just go to school/nursery without being treated.
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