3 year old unwell for nearly 4 weeks.

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Hello, please has anyone been through this.
started 30th September. Child coughing lots and through the night it would keep her up. Kept off nursery thinking it would go in a few days.
She got worse, diagnosed with tonsillitis in out of hours on the Sunday. She was given antibiotics and sent home. The puss on her tonsils has gone and she seemed brighter though not herself. Still flat. Barely eaten since 30th September and hardly played. The last few days I noticed she was going backwards, temperature came back and wasn’t feeling well again. We’ve been to the docs and he gave another 10 days antibiotics. Doesn’t actually know what’s wrong. Her heart rate is high, temp keeps spiking.

it’s been such a long nearly four weeks and I’m not seeing an end in sight. Has anyone experience of this at all please,

thank you

Sorry to be pedantic but it's Oct 17th and if it started on 30th Sept, it hasn't even been 3wks yet never mind nearly 4. 17 days is 2.5wks. maybe in your mind it feels longer as you're not used to seeing her this way. Tonsillitis (especially first time immune system has fought against it) will knock you for 6 and wouldn't be unreasonable to take 10-14 to get over. The fact that her temp went and came back is indicative of either a secondary infection (possibly viral) or the first round of antibiotics not being enough to kick the bacterial infections arse. Sometimes tonsillitis does take two courses of AB unfortunately.

Heart rate being high is normal when a temperature is occuring, if GP checked HR and wasn't concerned then that's promising. If she's drinking plenty and weeing frequently and not unresponsive/sleeping for hours n hours per day, no sunken under eyes, dry lips etc then it seems it will just have to be rode out at home with ice lollies and cuddles, Disney films and calpol/nuro to keep fever down.