Hi doziduck, I got your other message.
Neither dh or I are vaccination specialists, but dh says that if it was one of our kids or a patient of his, he'd want to have the tetanus jag just to be in the safe side, as bites can be pretty dirty - infection could have been forced quite deep without you realising, and with his temperature (which could be totally different in origin,and just an unlucky coincedence but you never know).
Dh would recommend antibiotics after a bite like that because of the possibility of a wound infection - especially he says as your ds has a low threshold in his immune system he would be more likrly to develop an infection, so best to nip it in the bud. So even though your doc gave you them for the wrong reasons, he's probably done the right thing IYKWIM.
Dh can't look it up (vaccination) for you just now as he'd not at work and all his protocalls are in his on call gear. But he did say sooner the better.
Dunno if this helps, its a traditional medical pov, and there are quite a lot of people here who would have differing opinions, especially about the vaccination. But antibiotics and tetanus and keeping an eye on his temperature and the would site to check for redness, swelling, excessive heat around the bite, to see if there is an infectio, is what he would tell one of his patients to do, and what he would want done if it was one of ours.
HE did say that if the doc didn't know that your ds had been nipped, he might have prescibed an inapptopriate antibiotic, but if you let me know what it is he couls tell you.
It makes him mad when doctors are being cr*p cos he works so hard, listens to people and is the GP in the practice that everyone takes their kids to see. Sounds like there has been a bit of a sorry lack of communication in your practice.
Please just ask if you have any other worried, can't promise we can help, but he could try! Hope your ds feels better soon.