[POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] chest infection and temperature. Antibiotics???

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Yes, thank you very much, Margaret. Everyone on this list is so clever -

and sensible too, I think. When I gave them to him as a baby I had no

idea of the harm they were causing. This time I'll think about

probiotics and toxins etc very carefully.

Thanks for you help - he is loads better today (probably too early for

the antibiotics to have worked - 1 dose????)

Sara

mcollins2001uk wrote:

>

> I suggest you keep going with the prescribed medication and telephone

> your doctor. If he has a chest infection, you don't want it to become

> pneumonia, so in your shoes I would give the full course and cope

> with side effects afterwards.

> Margaret

>

>

> >

> > I did not want to give Tom the antibiotics but he was so ill that

> was

> > frightened and I have given him one dose and now he is asleep.

> >

> > I am very concerned that I have done the wrong thing. The

> antibiotics

> > are called Tenkorex oral suspension and the ingredients, as well as

> the

> > active ingredient cefalaxin, are: saccarin sodium (E954), sodium

> > benzoate (E211), citric acid anhydrous (E330), sucrose, purified

> water,

> > iron oxide yellow (E172), simethicone, guar gum (E412), strawberry

> > flavour, apple flavour, raspberry flavour, and tutti frutti

> flavour.

> > Flavour contents: benzyl alcohol, magnesium hydroxide carbonate

> (E504),

> > acetic acid (E260), propylene glycol, ethanol (0.01%) and traces of

> > glycerol (E422) and lactose.

> >

> > Elsewhere on the leaflet it says ' " Tenkorex Oral Suspension also

> > contains sodium benzoate which may irritate the soft tissue lining

> of

> > the gut and mouth... " I told the doctor that Tom had been diagnosed

> with

> > reflux and had severe gut and bowel problems and severe food

> > intolerances - yet he dished this out to him! He is most definitely

> > lactose intolerant yet I suspect this is the least of his worries.

> >

> > I know you are supposed to finish a course of antiobiotics off

> properly

> > but this seems like a big bottle. They also have him on the dose

> for an

> > under 5 year old and he is over 5 (nearly 6). Should I stop giving

> this

> > to him?

> >

> > Sara

> >

>

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