In't antibiotics brilliant ?

[anonymous-user]

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[diablodavs]

I doubt the antibiotics would have worked in just a few hours, usually not required in ear infections at all

[Cerbhd]

Good news, I know the rsch gets slated some times but I used to work there as a contractor has have great respect for MOST of the staff. The emergency and kids services are good
All the best

[anonymous-user]

The antibiotics would work in just a couple of hours

They are marvellous things

But resistance to them is on the increase and getting quite serious

They need to be used sparingly, full courses finished

I have posted previously about this charity that is working in the area and I don't mind giving it another plug


http://www.antibioticresearch.org.uk

[anonymous-user]

antibiotics don't won't against viruses FYI.

[sawman]

glad the little chaps on the mend,

do you think the ambulance was really necessary? , after all you did manage to get him to the hospital for successful treatment without one

are you really sending him to school just a couple of days after being so ill?

is he still loaded with whatever infection he had, to pass on to others?

[LotusMartin]

There must be someone in the PH community who can track down the 999 log?

Like you, if that was my son I'd be apocalyptic!

[sawman]

Just re the ambulance thing, the last time i had a family member with an acute illness that needed hospital care, the out of hours medic from 111 suggested that it would likely be much quicker if i drove them to admissions unit rather than wait for an ambulance to drive from the hosp to us and then return, which seemed reasonable as it was unlikely medical treatment such as defibrillation, drugs etc would be needed as they were very ill but relatively stable.
The ambulance is an emergency service not a taxi service.

[FlyingMeeces]

sawman said:

Just re the ambulance thing, the last time i had a family member with an acute illness that needed hospital care, the out of hours medic from 111 suggested that it would likely be much quicker if i drove them to admissions unit rather than wait for an ambulance to drive from the hosp to us and then return, which seemed reasonable as it was unlikely medical treatment such as defibrillation, drugs etc would be needed as they were very ill but relatively stable.
The ambulance is an emergency service not a taxi service.

Oh aye, but if this was presenting as a meningitis scare, that is NOT a 'relatively stable' situation - little kids don't show illness like adults do, think it was a paramedic who put it as they go "I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm... actually I'm really not very well at all" and then all hell breaks loose. So by the time a wee'un is actually showing concerning signs, if a GP calls an ambulance, it's with good reason and even if it got downgraded as less serious, actually cancelling it is Not On. Especially given that the GP clearly would have known the parents had a car there and could have taken him themselves if he'd been well enough for that to be an acceptably low-risk option. Nothing bad happening doesn't make it safe in retrospect - now knowing it wasn't meningitis obviously DOES tell us it was safe, but nobody was to know that then. Unless there's some major factor the OP hasn't shared/didn't know (quite possible, there's a lot of external factors you don't follow when your kid seems really poorly), that was not a safe or responsible decision.

[zeDuffMan]

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Make sure he finishes the whole course of antibiotics, even if he is completely rosy now.

[klmhcp]

anonymous said:

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Why didn't the GP give him BenPen if he thought it was meningitis? Pretty sure that's protocol.