Antibiotics for UTI - DD 20 months

[Monkeymummy1]

Hi. I've not posted much before but I need some advice! THis might be a bit long!
DD was diagnosed with a UTI last week and given antibiotics. I only managed to get a does and a half in her and she now just vomits it up. I gave up giving them to her becuase she seems better, it was causing so much upset for both of us and the doctor was not totally certain it was a UTI anyway.

I told the doctor this on monday and she wanted another sample to check if it was gone. I took one yesterday and it was all clear. But another doctor rang with the results. He said that even though it's clear, he wants her to take the antibiotics for a week and then she has to stay on one dose a day for THREE MONTHS. Then they want to scan her kidneys and do a function test at the hospital. Apparently this is standard after one UTI in kids.

I'm totally uncomfortable with her being on antibiotics for such a long time, especially when there is no infection anymore. I read the NICE guidelines and they say that after one UTI routine follow up is not needed. Since antibiotics can have long term side effects and she doesn't have an infection anymore, I just feel like this is totally over the top for the first ever UTI she has had. I'd rather just monitor her and get regular samples checked, if that's needed.

Does anyone have any experience with this at all? I'm going to speak to the original doctor today at some point and I'm feeling a bit intimidated about it as I'm not that well informed. My "gut feeling" against 20 or so years of medical experience doesn't stand up very well! What would you do?!

I have never been in your position but ds1 was put on antibiotics from birth after it was spotted at my 20 wks scan and again at 34 wks that he had enlarged kidneys - if I could go back in time I wouldn't have given them to him, I think the monitoring is a better option. He had antibiotics for 6 wks every day, it was trimethoprim which is an antibiotic I have since had a severe reaction to - I can't exactly say what long term affect it has had on him - he has intollerances to several foods, difficulty at school, severe glue ear... its kind of something of nothing but gut feeling says that antibiotics from day 1 wasn't a good start and since nothing was actually wrong it was a pointless course of action for us. I think I was scared by the paedatrian and it was my first baby.
Gut feeling shouldn't be overlooked - what did the doc say today?

My dds bf had that uti. Turned out she had undiagnosed kidney reflux. It is normally diagnosed earlier, but she was 4 and the damage done. She now only had one kidney that works, the other one had died.
She was permanently on antibiotics for years which haven't done her harm.