Antibiotics at school

[HerGraciousMajTheBeardedPotato]

Ds has to have a course of antibiotics, including a lunchtime dose, and the bottle has to be kept in the fridge. What do I do about school? They're perfectly willing to give the medicine, but do I tore the bottle to and fro every day, or is it OK to decant a bit and give it to them to keep for the week?

The school will need to have the original bottle with the dosage stated on it. You will need to take it backwards and forwards each day.

Yes you need to take it to and fro. The school shouldn't agree to store or administer medicines that aren't properly labelled with prescription etc

I used to measure DD's dose out into a 10 ml syringe and just take that to school. I had to fill in a form as well. It saved me from forgetting to bring the bottle home and leaving it out of the fridge all week. The school didn't demand to see the dosage on the bottle.

Where I work it must be in the original bottle with the pharmacy label on, stating the child's name and the dose. A form also needs to be completed by the parent the first day.
You have to take in every day and home every night.

I guess the alternative could be that you take out what you need for home and send rest in in the bottle.

A school should not take non labelled medicines.

I have sieve-like memory. I am bound to forget the bottle at school.

The form does not require the original bottle, just that it be fully labelled. When another dc had to have pills at school, they were quite happy for me to decant into a labelled pillbox. So I think I shall decant the school doses into - ah, what?

"So I think I shall decant the school doses into - ah, what?"

A syringe. The pharmacy will be able to give you a 10ml syringe.

I don't think our form specifically says it has to be in the original bottle but we wouldn't accept it without - I'm sure keeping medicines in their original bottle is a basic safety thing I was taught at Brownies i.e. so basic you don't need to say it. But then I don't think they should have accepted the pills either.

I have syringes, but isn't that a spillage just waiting to happen?

Domus, quite. Which is why I balk at decanting. But which is also why I want to keep the bulk of the medicine in the original bottle.

"I have syringes, but isn't that a spillage just waiting to happen"

Only if you depress the plunger. I had no trouble taking it to school and handing it to the secretary. I used to put it into a little plastic bag.

Right, I've decanted 3 doses into a labelled (new!) toiletries travel bottle, and included a medicine spoon in the packet.

If the school don't like it, they will tell me what they prefer me to do, and I will rush around frantically trying to be in two places at once so that I can get the right thing to them by lunchtime.

Why don't you avoid the possibility of stress and put the three doses into the official, labelled bottle, and keep the non labelled bottle at home?

Does it say lunchtime specifically? If not, could you work so that you avoid giving at school? I used to give first thing in morning, then on return home from school, then bedtime.

most schools will only agree to give them if they are four times a day. As you can give three times a day without a lunchtime dose.
yy give the school the original bottle with label, they are mad if they accept anything else.

In future, you could try asking the pharmacist to provide you with a second labelled bottle so one can go to school.

For this time, I think you're best (only?) option, is to decant most of it to another receptacle as home and copy label infomation to stick onto it. Ours won't accept anything other than pharmacists labelled bottle/packet.

Does it say lunchtime specifically? If not, could you work so that you avoid giving at school? I used to give first thing in morning, then on return home from school, then bedtime.

Yes, this is what I'd suggest. I was on antibiotics a lot as a child and, at the time, the only way school allowed medication was if a parent came in and administered it but both parents worked FT.

School were happy with what I provided. Phew.