so many antibiotics!

[magnumnuts]

Hi all.,DS has returned from Drs with yet another prescription for antibiotics (chest infection) just three weeks after the last one. In his 4 years of life that he has taken 9 courses of antibiotics...mostly for chest infections same for urine infections.....does this leave him more vunerable and less able to fight his own battles Im wondering??

Erm well chest infections can be nasty- but many are cause by viruses. I loathe giving my children antibs (ds1 had too many) so now I tend to either ask docs to swab before I use them or I pick up a prescriptions then hold off. Using this method ds2 (now aged 6) has had two courses and ds3 (aged 3) none. Ds1 for comparison had about 8 courses by the time he was 2. Mainly for ear infections so probably totally unecessary (ds3 had repeated ear infections as well and got better in the same times frame as ds1- just without antibs).

You do have to be careful with chest infections though so I would probably ask for a swab or have something in the house ready to use.

ds1 (now 9) hasn't had any courses since he was about 3 btw.