Worried about my DD. Please help - particularly anyone medical!

Fantastic news. Antibiotics make such a difference! And yes even eating an English muffin with jam and drinking a cup of milky tea when taking them makes a huge difference.

Ahh that’s good. Antibiotics are amazing.

Hope your dd is improving op. 🙂

Common side effects for clairythromycin include an unpleasant lasting taste (bitter or metallic) and gastrointestinal issues, so it sounds like your DD may be experiencing both of these things, poor thing.

As others have said, keep an eye on her temperature and general demeanour and don’t be afraid to get further medical advice from the GP or 111 if it looks like she isn’t improving.

You could ask for her to be prescribed an anti sickness if it’s the meds making her sick

When my DC were ill, after getting antibiotics I wouldn’t see improvement for 2/3 days. My adult DS has just had this awful virus going around, he had 10 days of antibiotics and is now on steroids for 8 weeks, he has had a chest X-ray, which was clear. The trying to be sick is probably hunger pukes, so try getting her to eat some toast or dry biscuits. One the the main symptoms for me when DC were ill was the trying to vomit, so I knew it was an infection. Hope she begins to start feeling better soon.

If she’s not getting worse I wouldn’t drag her back to doctors. it sounds like the antibiotics just need time to work.

I've had a horrendous amount of antibiotics in the last year (I think I'm over 10 at the last count) and they make me feel very sick and not hungry.

I have found some midwife anti sickness pills (herbal) that work and absolute treat. They're called ease the queese and you can get them on Amazon. Total game changer!

Antibiotics often cause nausea and vomiting. I have particularly bad reactions.

the general advice if they are doing this is to take on a full stomach if possible (even if it’s only liquid) and keep drinking and eating in small amounts.

it’s a bastard of an infection I had it a couple of weeks ago. So sorry for your dd. Hope she is feeling better soon.

Horrible flu going round at the moment

There is a very nasty virus going round, I am a teacher and have had a huge chunk of my class off every day for the last month, some for days and some for weeks.

Has she had antibiotics before? My son had his first dose age 11 and started vomiting after ever dose, turns out he is allergic to penicillin. He also developed a nasty rash after a few days if taking them.

Keep her hydrated OP, be aware of signs of sepsis and any sign of that straight to ED. Hopefully the antibiotics will kick in soon. The fact her temp was normal is a great sign that things are starting to get better. Could well be pneumonia, but only a doctor can diagnose.

GP needs to prescribe an emergency prescription of anti emetics.

I hope she’s feeling a bit better this morning.

I get a lot of chest infections and have had pneumonia. I need to sleep propped up.

My fever goes from 36.5 to 39 usually but has been known to spike.

When I had pneumonia i was seeing the GP twice weekly (on GP instruction) so don’t be worried about going back if you need to take her. I usual need 2/3 lots of antibiotics and sometimes steroids.

Good luck

The GP already knows it’s pneumonia (which may be viral or bacterial) - “chest infection” in non-medical terms - as they found the signs of it while listening to OP’s daughter’s chest. That’s why they started the oral antibiotics, which as PP said can absolutely treat pneumonia. There’s no need for a chest Xray if she improves on the antibiotics, which will take at least 24 hours on them.

If she doesn’t improve after 24 hours of antibiotics, or if she continues to vomit them up and therefore isn’t absorbing them, or if she gets worse from a breathing or sepsis point of view then she needs to go to A&E.

I would take her to A&E. Just to rule out sepsis. I wouldn't risk it.

Not the point of the thread but a pneumonia absolutely can be treated by oral antibiotics and this is part of the national guidance on how to treat pnuemonia. IV antibiotics only required for severe cases / or if not responding to oral antibiotics.

https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/chest-infections-adult/management/community-acquired-pneumonia/#:~:text=Prescribe%20oral%20amoxicillin%20500%20mg,total%20course%20of%205%20days).

If your daughter is improving with the oral antibiotics I wouldn’t demand an X ray and expose her to radiation for no good reason. Obviously as already stated here before if she gets worse or isn’t improving with the treatment given then of course go to A&E. Every place works differently but most GPs don’t have access to emergency X-rays anyway so I if worse in morning A&E rather than GP

Hopefully she’s turned a corner. But I’d still take her to A&E in the morning if she doesn’t keep down the next antibiotic dose.

I was thinking pneumonia as well. OP, it could be a nasty viral infection that she'll clear it with rest and fluids. But the problem with a lung infection is that it could turn into pneumonia and oral antibiotics won't do much. The only sure thing to get rid of it is intravenous antibiotics.

When you go to your GP ask, and don't be persuaded against it, to get chest x-rays for your DD. The x-ray will show if pneumonia is present or not.