Help please - any docs/anti-b specialists around?

[permaquandry]

Dd1(6) has had virus (identical to dd2s of 2 weeks ago). 7 day temp, headaches, cold/cough. Took her to docs test as seemed to be getting worse on 7th day.

Doc said she has crackling in both lungs and prescribed erythroped. Dd1 had a reaction to penicillin before so that's why she can't have amoxicillin.

Started at 10.30 yest. Had a bit of a gripey tummy and a little diarrhoea yest eve.

Woke up at 2am and has been vomitting every 30 mins since then. Just bile, nothing else.

Could this be the erythroped or is it too prolonged for that? There is a tummy bug sweeping the school but she hasn't been there for a week and a half. Dd2 has tho, could she be harbouring it (although not sick herself?)

Sorry for long post but am waiting for docs to call and I don't know wether to continue with anti-bs or leave for a day, then start again. I hope to goodness it's not the anti-bs as she's very limited on that front. Thx in advance.

Perma,

I would leave the antibiotics until you have spoken to your doctor. The allergic reaction could be dangerous if it is that. I would make sure she is seen again urgently with those symptoms. She clearly needs antibiotics if she has a chest infection and, with that vomiting, even if not an allergic reaction, she won't be getting them. She needs to be properly assessed IMO.

Assuming you meant 10:30am-I think (but speak to your doctor) that they'd expect an allergic reaction to come on before that. I remember phoning the doctor on that subject with dd1, and I think that time scale (long time ago) is longer than the time we were given.

I think you probably need to be seen, if the doctor can't then A&E. With ds he was on antibiotics when started similar and we ended up in A&E with him, but his antibiotics were for his ear (just after grommet op) not as important as a chest infection.

Thx for the replies. Yes, she started them at 10.30am yest. So I would also be surprised if allergic reaction, 15 hrs later?

The docs said the crackling could go either way and just clear up but thought it was worth giving her anti-bs. I must add, that although clearly unwell, she is lucid, chatty, able to watch tv etc and is hardly coughing, although sounds very crackly when she does.

She ate some wotsits at around 5 yest and had some chicken pie at 6ish and neither of these came up, only a small amount of bile. Don't know what that could indicate?