My 2yo has had a fever and a cough for a few days. She's not eaten since Saturday. Took her to the GP yesterday, she was seen by a physician's associate, who diagnosed bacterial tonsillitis as he saw pus spots on DD's tonsils. Prescribed penicillin and sent on our way.
Yesterday evening the cough got even worse and she's now gagging and vomiting regularly. She vomited up the first dose of antibiotics and her ibuprofen. Called the pharmacist who advised we give a half dose then start again today. The antibiotics taste absolutely disgusting and it's 10ml at a time, twice a day, so it's a lot to get down her.
We only just had her examined last night so I'm at a loss as to what to do. She's not eating, getting medicine down her is so hard we're practically pinning her down, and then she's vomiting it up anyway. She managed half a mini muffin this morning, I was absolutely ecstatic, but she coughed and vomited it up not long after.
Thankfully she's hydrated, having wet nappies, but she's not eating, probably because her little body knows it'll just come up. We can't disguise the medicine in anything because she's point blank refusing everything, including chocolate and ice cream! Her temp reaches 40 degrees and does come down with a mix of Calpol and nurofen, but she's struggling to keep that down too. I've sent DH to get some paracetamol suppositories as in absolutely desperate, have been unable to source ibuprofen suppositories though, and it's ibuprofen that is working the best.
Where do we go from here? I've contacted the GP again, waiting to hear back, but I'm just so worried about her. Any advice or reassuring words?