Hi all,
Having a terrible time with my DS (16mths) at the minute. I'll start last Monday, when we went to the GP with crusty eyes, especially in the morning. He diagnosed conjunctivitis and prescribed antibiotic eye drops. I asked him to check his throat as he had choked a few times in the last week, which I was worried about. Throat was fine, apparently.
Then the next day we noticed his ear was weeping pus, it was 7pm and the GP was closed so we took him to the local walk in clinic. Ear infection diagnosed, and Amoxicillin 3x/day prescribed. Over the next few days this seemed to improve slightly, but he still had a fever on and off so we administered Calpol and Nurofen when required.
However on Saturday he was off food completely and that evening his temperature went very high (40C) and Calpol/Nurofen wouldn't keep it down. So we returned to the walk in clinic, but they referred us to paediatric A&E.
6h later (2am!) and DS is diagnosed with a serious case of Tonsillitis, which they said was causing the fever, not the ears. They were extremely reluctant to let us go home as his temperature was so high, but eventually after a combined dose of paracetamol and ibuprofen and with stripping him off to just his nappy, it did come down and we were allowed home, with instructions to stop taking the Amoxicillin (4 days into a 7-day course) and take newly-prescribed Penecillin V 4x/day instead.
Since Sunday, he has been a lot better, temperature has remained normal and he is eating again. However, this morning his right ear is weeping pus again, even worse than before. Back to the GP this afternoon and he tells us that he has the ear infection again, and the pus is coming from a perforated eardrum. He said that the Penecillin will not treat his ear infection and so he wants us to stop the Penecillin (4 days into a 10 day course) and start administering Erthromycin 4x/day instead, which he says will treat both the tonsillitis and the ear infection.
I want to trust the professionals, I really do. But they missed the throat infection twice now and seem to be employing a "trial and error" approach with antibiotics. Shouldn't they have done a swab test to see what type of infection is causing throat / ear problems?
Any advice appreciated!!
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mumofone83 · 15/06/2016 18:56
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