Antibiotics storage - no fridge

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Any advice or suggestions on this one - my DD has recently been prescribed a 10 day course of antibiotics for tonsillitis. We go away today for 4 nights and are staying in a hotel (big chain hotel) and it's just occurred to me that there isn't a fridge in the room. I'm going to pop it in a cool bag with ice packs for now but I know this won't last for 4 days. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm going to ring the hotel but I don't like the idea of medication being left in a fridge where potentially lots of staff/people could access it (probably a bit over cautious!) and I suspect that's going to be the only solution they can offer 😬

This may be a tangent but bear with me. We used sterilising bags when DD was a baby, on holiday, and hung it over the tap in the bath. You could do a similar thing, and hang the bottle suspended in a water filled bag, over the bath tap

I have currently got really bad tonsillitis where my temp went up to 40 and my throat is now totally white
Still eating! About to go back ti the doctors as I'm not improving and need different antibiotics

If it is Premier Inn their standard rooms do not have a fridge but some of their upgraded rooms do. Otherwise they may offer to store it in their kitchen fridge for you.

Ok hotel have confirmed they have fridges it can be stored in so that's definitely an option. Don't know why if just doesn't sit totally comfortably with me though! She said we'll tell you where it is so you can get it whenever you need it so presumably anyone can access it? I don't know why but it just makes me a bit uneasy. But at least it's an option. Pharmacy aren't answering yet.

@MabelMaybe my husband did suggest just leaving it in cool water in the sink. It might work and help to keep it a bit cooler.

My local screw fix also have those crackable ice packs so maybe I'll get those on the way.

@BaffledOnceAgain definitely don't want to end up back at square one again! Even though it would be so much easier not to give it to her because she's 2, hates the taste and it's like grappling with a baby crocodile getting it in her sometimes

Oh definitely don't stop them yes little children can bounce back quickly but finish them.

I would be totally happy with it being in the hotel fridge. What's making you uneasy? Do you think someone's going to tamper with it? This is definitely one to chill (pun intended) out about.

We leave insulin in hotel fridges (when there isn't one in the room) all the time.

@DappledThings yes that's exactly it 😂 you're right though I probably shouldn't worry about it and I'm just over thinking unnecessarily (and making life harder when there's a perfect solution now!)

Get some gel packs, half a dozen small ones. Ask the hotel to pop them in the freezer for you, take two out at a time, pop in a tub with the antibiotics( in a plastic bag so they don't get wet). Change to a frozen pair every few hours.

It's perfectly normal for ANYONE to bounce back really quickly when given antibiotics that the bacteria are sensitive to.

But very important you complete the course anyway, as this prevents both recurrence in the patient and antibiotic resistance developing in general.

I had tonisillitis loads as a kid. By about day two of the antibiotics, I usually felt fine. However you have to finish the course, just because you feel fine it doesn't mean you've killed off all the bacteria, so there's a good chance it'll come back if you don't take them for the whole week.