Have found antibiotics for Chlamyidia in dd's room............

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Do I talk to her about it?. She is nearly 17, has had the same boyfried for 6 months and is on the pill.

I have always stressed that even if you are on the pill or having contraceptive injections you should use a condom.

I am presuming that the clinic that she has got them from have given her advice and told her the importance of getting her bf treated as well, and hopefully pointed out to her that the pill doesn't work if she is taking antibiotics.

She has been quite sensible and as I said the clinic will have given her advice, so what purpose would me talking to her acheive?

I would leave it well alone if I were you. All she will do is accuse you of snooping. She will probably have got them either from a gp or a GUM clinic, so they will have given her the facts, and given her age, a good talk on contraception and barrier methods too.

no, I wouldn't talk to her about it unless she left them somewhere you couldn't fail to notice, and was expecting you to be in her room. Teenagers really value their privacy, IME, and she may accuse you of snooping.

She has acted maturely, by identifying a problem and getting it treated. I think you can assume that the clinic has given her appropriate advice. They will know that she is sexually active, and if the antibiotic in question is known to affect the efficacy of the pill they will tell her (they don't all affect the pill, by the way).

BTW, out of interest, how did you know it's to treat chlamidia?

Um, docs don't always remember to explain that (some) antibiotics make the pill ineffective. You'd hope they would remember if prescribing them for an STI... if you had a valid reason for being in her room, and the antibiotics were in plain view, I'd have a calm and neutral word, saying you noticed the antibiotics and does she realise they can interfere with the pill? But not saying anything re STI, she might be very embarrased about it.

How do you know what the antibiotics are for, anyway?

one of the antibiotics used to treat chlamydia is also used to treat acne...

Because when I looked it up on the internet, it was for either that, gum disease or anthrax poisoning!!

General consensus is a 'no' then?

She doesn't have acne, and if it was for something innocent I would have been told about it.

this is a girl who can't sneeze without tthe street knowing that she has flu

No no no no no no .

Do you not think that maybe you're jumping to conclusions, and that there could be a perfectly innocent explanation for her needing anti-biotics? Seems a shame to automatically be thinking about STDs.

But then if she would usually shout a cough from the roof tops, and this AB is used only to treat 3 things, 2 of which she hasn't got and the other is chlamydia, I thing OP is right to assume that's what it is.

maybe she does have anthrax poinsening.

i wouldnt say a world about it, it is her private life and tbh i would be mortified if my mum founds anti-biotics and looked them up on the internet.

I would also have looked them up on the internet, but really, really don't mention that to your daughter. I wouldn't say anything if I were y6ou.

Given her age and that she sounds like a sexually sensible and mature teenager I'd leave it.

I'd leave it too - as others have said - she's obviously been mature enough to realise there was a problem and to get it sorted.

What's the drug LB?