Mistake With Antibiotics

[honeydip]

Our 3 year old was having a fever so we took him to the doctors who didn’t even take his temperature but you could feel he had a temperature. Any way she prescribed him amoxycilin, nose spray and eye drops. Anyway after 2 days he was feeling better and I was away. My wife who was a bit naïve stopped giving him the antibiotics for 2 days while I was away and he got ill again. I was really annoyed by this and how stupid this was. I immediately made sure he started the anti biotics again and took him to the doctors the next day and explained everything. We saw a different doctor who then told us we didn’t need to give him the anti biotics. So we stopped the antibiotics and now he is ill again!
I don’t understand it. Please don’t start on about my wife not giving him the anti biotiocs because he was feeling better I fully understand the importance of finishing a course and made sure she does from now on.
Anyway we are back to square one with a potential resistant strain of bacteria. His symptoms are high fever and a chesty cough. He sometimes complains about stomach pain but from how he says it it isn’t that bad. His fever comes and goes and we use paracetamol drink to help this.
There are no other English speaking doctors around and I don’t know if its worth taking him back or even flying him back to the UK. I thought the French medical care system was good.
He was good enough to go to school this morning as no fever but I am not 100% sure he will be alright. My wife works at school so will let him go in her class for the day to keep an eye on him.

[murraymints]

Kids have inexplicable illnesses that pass...if fever returns back to doc or hossie..

[Sqad]

\\\Anyway we are back to square one with a potential resistant strain of bacteria.\\\

Really?

\\\I thought the French medical care system was good. \\

It is.

So what is your question?

[Prudie]

You must know by now your wife is naive - you should have told her before you left and I find it hard to beleive the doctor didn't also tell you to finish the course. Why go at all if you are going to make your own medical decisions?

[bednobs]

anyway, you need to forget what has gone before, and deal with what is in front of you now. No fever this morning, so it sounds like he is getting better. I don't understand why you would fly him to the UK - as you don't live here you won't be able to see the gp anyway unless you have a private GP. You have to be resident for a "legal and settled" purpose to register with a GP, and you are not.

[honeydip]

sqad I dont know. Does it sound like a bacterial infection?

[honeydip]

He is still registered with a local gp where we used to live and still have a house

[coccinelle]

There are quite a few kids poorly at the moment in France with flu like symptoms and quite honestly antibiotics won't do anything. The paracetemol will keep the temperature down and make sure he's getting lots of fluids. If he's well enough for school this morning he must be on the mend.

[bednobs]

it doesn't matter if he is still registered - you are not able to use the GP service as you are not resident here. There is a provision for "immediate and necessary treatment", but i would doubt that a child well enough to fly would qualify for that

[honeydip]

Well they have a walk in surgery every day. That's one good thing