Any nurses/doctors? Toddler and antibiotics

[whataballbag]

Have a video call booked with GP in the morning.

Toddler DS has been put on oral antibiotics for a particularly bad paronychia, however he just will not take them.

We've always had this problem, he won't take calpol etc either. He's had croup quite a lot of times and the doctors haven't been able to get steroids in him either. We've had 3/4 doctors and nurses restraining him to try and get it in and still failed.

Think our GP thinks we're being a bit namby pamby about giving them and we're really not. Tried swaddling him and forcing them down with a syringe, holding his nose and blowing (all tricks taught in the hospital but to no avail) hiding them in food/drinks, bribery, explaining, over the top clapping, everything you could possibly think of.

So my Question is, can they be administered via injection? Suppository? Either is favourable to this. The 1ml or so I did get in him by sheer luck he vomited straight back up.

Which antibiotic is it? I’m guessing it’s along the lines of amoxicillin/co-amoxiclav? I’m not aware of any alternatives that can be given as a suppository, unfortunately. If he really won’t take them orally and the infection is really nasty, IV administration might be the only alternative, but obviously that would involve a hospital stay. Hopefully that won’t be necessary and the GP will have an alternative plan, but that’s my thinking. Sorry I can’t be of more help, it all sounds very stressful!

It's clarithromycin

Pretty sure clarithromycin routes are oral or intravenous only. Have you tried putting it in yogurt or something that he likes?

I'm a nurse, although adult trained.

Clarithromycin doesn't come in suppositories but other antibios do.......ask your gp . Good luck, it's really hard I know x

We've tried everything!

They've give him a cream for now so fingers crossed it starts improving

Just seen your update, hope the cream has helped and it’s on the mend!

@SpuriouserAndSpuriouser yes, the cream seems to be working thank god!!

Ah thank goodness for that!