Antibiotics in toddlers!

[prayingformyrainbowbaby]

My little girl, had antibiotics in January, 3 different courses in April/may and back on antibiotics today.

im concerned about the effect of the medication on her body. We are having bloods done soon hopefully, as she seems to be an unwell a lot.

what are everyone else experience- have your littles had extensive courses and developed a good immune system?

She was prescribed antibiotics because she needed them. Thank goodness.
Doctors don’t give them out willy nilly.

Millions of children died pre-antibiotics because of what are now considered simple childhood diseases.

They won’t negatively affect her immune system.

I’m afraid I’d say the previous comment is untrue. Here’s one study highlighting the impact of antibiotics on the immune system of young children, there are others if you search. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7593395/

Yes sometimes they are unavoidable but they have a negative effect on gut flora which is increasingly understood to play a big role in the immune system.

My eldest had a lot of antibiotics, including iv in hospital for pneumonia. She seemed to get everything. I consulted a medical herbalist who gave advice to focus on rebuilding the gut through a wide variety of fruit and veg, kefir, fermented foods if they’ll eat any. She also prescribed some herbs, slippery elm is the one I remember but there were more, I think the slippery elm was to build up the coating in the gut. DD is 9 now and I feel much healthier. I always ask drs these days if we can avoid antibiotics and often they will send you with a script and say to monitor for a day or two, I find things I would have just started them on antibiotics do improve themselves. Hope your wee one is better soon.

What on earth is a medical herbalist?😂

You would rather millions of toddlers died from childhood diseases? Don’t be silly.

(As an adult, I rarely seek antibiotics and usually infections resolve. I certainly wouldn’t take that risk with toddlers. My husband has had sepsis 4 times and would be dead without them.)

Give her some probiotics - if she's over 3 she can have the chewable gummies and if under 3 they come in drops or sachets. That will help restore gut balance. Also keep giving a widely varied diet with various sources of fibre as a varied diet is the best thing for the gut.

If she needed antibiotics, she needed them. The effect on the gut biome is temporary. But if you'd left the infection untreated, she could have become seriously ill or died. For me that's an absolute no brainer.

Good shout, @RobinHeartella . We should all take probiotics.

thank You for your comments. She has been on probiotics for 2 months which I will continue. My other concern is the effect on her teeth I believe she has enamel hypoplasis 😞