Re: antibiotics... erring on the side of caution??

[Guest guest]

Start the antibiotics!!!!!! I always believe that it is important to

err on the side of caution. you can never go back and change things

but being on antibiotics for a couple of days if they are not needed

won't hurt. Good luck and I hope he feels better.

Dawn

[Guest guest]

We are always more cautious about infections with Grace than are other

" healthy " kids. If it was me, I would definatly start the antibiotics.

Once a fever starts, sometimes its too late and dehydration kicks in right

after.

Also about the strep throat. You can actually have no sypmtoms at all and

have strep. This actually happened to my kids once. I had one child with

sypmtoms of strep, but had to take them all with me to the others doctors

appointment. My doc swabbed the first one (she has an instant test in her

office), she was positive. Then another child said there throat was a

little scratchy, but no pain. Had her swabbed, positive. We figured with

two positve, better do them all. We then had my son and Grace swabbed,

neither with any sypmtoms. They were both positive.

We were so glad we had Grace swabbed because her protocal calls for her to

be admitted with any fever. If we were to wait a few days to start

antibiotics, she would have ended up with a hospital stay.

Best wishes.

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[Guest guest]

I know my kids don't always have a fever with strep throat; especially

as they got older. But their stomachs would really hurt. did they do

the fast swab result and then if that shows negative they will usually

culture the swab longer and keep checking it. our lab would even call

us on a weekend after checking it. There have been many times that when

the boys would have strep Leah's ped would give her a script for an

antibotic so she wouldn't get the strep. Some times I've filled it and

other times I waited to see what would happen because when the boys get

sick we quarantine them in the upstairs away from Leah. Now some

viruses cause blisters in the throat. Can your child suck on popsicles

or such? I know when I thought it was strep because of a really red

throat, it turned out to be just a virus. You never know.

Nerenhausen

mom to Leah

ilikemonstertrucks wrote:

>Our doc thinks has strep throat... but were not sure yet as

>he has no fever.

>he has several blisters in his throat, and is clearly in alot of

>pain. She thought initiallly it was a virus, but he has NO other

>symptoms of a virus, actually no other symptoms period.

>He had his muscle biopsy 9 days ago, but she said that even the

>irritation from the tube in his throat would not have caused this,

>its some sort of illness.

>So we have 2 options. the initial swab results will be in today,

>but wont necissarily tell us anything (in which case we wont know

>till Monday). She gave us a perscription for antibiotics, and said

>it was up to us whether we wanted to 'keep him covered' in case it

>is an infection... and in case the initial results show strep.

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>Is it important to err on the side of caution with mito kids when it

>comes to infections? because he has no fever, im not sure if we

>need to start antibiotics just yet... is this reasonable, or should

>we be cautious here and just use them?

>any suggestions?

>Im talking to the doc this afternoon, so we will have an idea of

>what to do then...

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>Please contact mito-owner with any problems or questions.

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[Guest guest]

they dont have the fast swab unfortunately, and because im in

canada, we cannot get lab results on a weekend, so we will have to

wait till Monday if the early results are inconclusive (docs calling

me any time with those).

The doc initially thought a virus, but he has NO other symptoms of a

virus (runny nose, etc) and no fever... with viruses he usually runs

rediculously high fevers,

He has been going nuts on the popsicles.. lol! poor guy, all i can

get him to eat are mushy crackers and popsicles today.

We should be hearing from teh doc in the next hour, so hopefully

well have some answers.

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> >Our doc thinks has strep throat... but were not sure yet

as

> >he has no fever.

> >he has several blisters in his throat, and is clearly in alot of

> >pain. She thought initiallly it was a virus, but he has NO other

> >symptoms of a virus, actually no other symptoms period.

> >He had his muscle biopsy 9 days ago, but she said that even the

> >irritation from the tube in his throat would not have caused

this,

> >its some sort of illness.

> >So we have 2 options. the initial swab results will be in today,

> >but wont necissarily tell us anything (in which case we wont know

> >till Monday). She gave us a perscription for antibiotics, and

said

> >it was up to us whether we wanted to 'keep him covered' in case

it

> >is an infection... and in case the initial results show strep.

> >

> >Is it important to err on the side of caution with mito kids when

it

> >comes to infections? because he has no fever, im not sure if we

> >need to start antibiotics just yet... is this reasonable, or

should

> >we be cautious here and just use them?

> >any suggestions?

> >Im talking to the doc this afternoon, so we will have an idea of

> >what to do then...

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >Please contact mito-owner with any problems or

questions.

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