Took DD (5.5) to OOH today, as she’s had a fever since Friday, and wasn’t fully responding to medicine. Was diagnosed with tonsillitis and possible urine infection, DR said, can’t confirm it was a definite positive as in children sometimes when they have a seperate infection, urine can still show a positive.
Prescribed us penicillin, which she gave us there in the hospital, told to give one dose before bed then do a 9-3-9 routine from the morning.
Gone to give DD her first dose for tonight, but the antibiotic bottle wasn’t sealed. And after opening, the foil lid had a clear poke in it, looks like a finger had pushed through the foil.
Now obviously this is a situation as my child has an infection and needs the antibiotics, and I don’t want her infection progressing, but I can’t help but have a gut feeling not to give her medicine from an unsealed finger hole: bottle.
And as she was only going to have one dose tonight anyway, I’m thinking would it be unreasonable to just wait, go to my pharmacy tomorrow morning and explain, and get a fresh bottle of antibiotic?
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