Antibiotics

[WalkerA6]

Hi everyone,

I'm new on this site, but I do have some questions about some antibiotics they're giving my daughter. My 8 yr old daughter frequently has tonsillitis (no idea why they don't just remove them) but she is highly allergic to penicillin.

Today we were given Erythromycin in the form or an oral suspension (which is our usual go to). The doctor and pharmacy say that the medication needs to be kept in the fridge. The downside is that we are planning on going away (from London to Derby, Derby to Nottingham and then back to London). We are spending one night in Nottingham in a hotel who do not have a mini-fridge and won't allow us to use their company fridge to store the medication.

Does anyone have any suggestions? The hotel have offered us a bowl of ice but will that cut it?

Thank you!

Get a wide neck flask and fill it with ice and water and store it in that. It should keep it cold for 12 hours and then you can just replenish when you need to. Plus it’s portable!

Will your daughter feel like going away if she has bacterial tonsillitis? She may just feel like staying at home.

Cooler bag with freezer pouches?

why did she still get the liquid at 8?
my dc have been prescribed meds in tablet/capsule form at that age.

@redchocolatebutton lots of children (and adults) can’t swallow capsules so have liquid instead. My adult daughter still has liquid.

why did she still get the liquid at 8?
my dc have been prescribed meds in tablet/capsule form at that age

I still get liquid medication over tablets and I’m 26. None of your business why her child has liquid rather than a tablet.

@redchocolatebutton I would imagine for the same reasons as I was given it in my 20s - your throat can all but close up with your tonsils being swollen, and it's much more difficult to swallow anything.

@redchocolatebutton I work with sick children. It's not a competition. Lots of teens still prefer liquid never mind an 8 year old. She may find it easier to swallow medicine with a sore throat too

Imagine taking antibiotic tablets with tonsillitis! I was prescribed the liquid at 30 when I had it badly, not a chance a pill was getting down my throat.

There are portable electric cool boxes that plug into your car and the wall to refrigerate things to 15C below the room temperature.
You can get one on amazon for £45
Just search “electric cool box car home”

The flask idea is a great one, I'd do that :)

The poster who said about tablets has obviously never experienced the pain of tonsillitis. Throats close up and it is so hard to swallow.

Surely you’d cancel a trip like this when your child has tonsillitis? It makes you feel really, really unwell.

@Fairylea maybe there’s a good reason they need to go?

Hi everyone, thanks so much for your messages and ideas!

Just to clarify my daughter still has liquid because it’s incredibly difficult for her to swallow at the moment. She whimpers every time she has to take it anyway. Even I still use liquid forms of medication if I can and I’m 29!

Also, we can’t cancel the trip because it’s a family members funeral. A shame that both of these things have happened but we have to work with what we’ve got!

And with regards to the antib’s, I will just use a bowl or ice water over night and use an ice pack during the day.

Again thank you all for your advice!

In OP's defence, my DD had tonsillitis - her throat felt bad but she'd happily gone to school. It was only when it became apparent it was more than a sore throat that we went to the doctor. I was told that she wouldn't be infectious once she started taking medication, her throat felt awful but she said she felt well enough to go to school (without any pressure from us).