Dd sore throat :on 4 times a day pencillian morning day 2.5 she's feeling worse

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Should she be feeling better by now?

Any experience?

How old? Any fever? What are her symptoms?

Duration of illness as a whole?

Started Tues pm, off school Wed took pharmacy for check, started tabs, school Thursday but said worse and worse still this am.
No temp... Cold starting as well.. Speaking hard.

I think you need to give antibiotics a little longer to work

@PickledPurplePickle do you think she's had 2/"3 one day, yesterday and 1 this am

We also caught it early

Most sore throats are viral so the antibiotics may not be helping anyway. Especially as her sore throat is now turning into cold symptoms - she may well have a cold.

Pharmacy said they saw "spots" indicating bacteria

Spots is not an accurate sign it's bacterial. Could easily still be viral.

No temp and cold signs is usually viral.
that said make sure she is swallowing as quinsy is a rare complication.

my own personal threshold is until they can’t manage school, aren’t playing at home, have had regular calpol/ibuprofen and lots of fluids I don’t think they are too unwell but it’s an independent decision for each family.

If she’s already on antibiotics there’s not much you can do unless she stops drinking eating and weeing. Have you got some difflam spray as that works well. Or ice lollies are great.

Has she has penicillin before? My kids/family are all allergic to it. One of them couple times on it they just didn't get better seemed to feel worse before finally breaking out on a rash/clear allergic reaction- it wasn't as extreme a reaction as the others allergic in family so only picked up as we have the family history

It might be a quinsy.

I would get checked at GP if you can if it is a quinsy they will refer to ENT department at hospital. I had to have one lanced like this. Not enjoyable. I was having to hold ears to swallow type pain.

I then got another quinsy 9 months later. If it is and they burst you can be at risk of sepsis, not to scare you, but it can.

After 6 bouts of penicillin, 2 quinsies, in 12 months my tonsils are no longer there. Not taken antibiotics since (9 years ago).

Go to your GP, urgent care centre. Just to make sure.

If it can be treated with penicillin it should be starting to feel better after 48 hours.

@AnnaMagnani we are only going by what a pharmacist told us.

@frozendaisy thank you, I always have quinsy in the back of my mind. She's able to eat and swollow so far.
She's mobile which is good!

The antibiotics will take a while to work. But it could well be viral. Now she's on the antibiotics you need to keep her taking them, just keep an eye on her and if she doesn't have a temp etc., just give her foods she finds easy to eat

Are you giving the antibiotics equally spaced every 6 hours, or just in the day time?

Keep a close eye. DD had similar and then within an hour was drooling and found it hard to breathe so I called an ambulance. It was quinsy and she was admitted for a few days to have a much stronger course of antibiotics. She’s had it twice now, hospitalised both times, and still they won’t take out her tonsils.