How important is it to finish antibiotics?
Monday, May 17th, 2010 at
9:44 pm
My daughter has an ear infection and has been taking antibiotics for the past 3 days. Now all of a sudden, she refuses to take the remainder of the antibiotics (2 days worth). Is it important that she take these last few teaspoons full of medicine?
Tagged with: antibiotics • ear infection • google • medicine • remainder • script type • teaspoons • text javascript
Filed under: Yeast Symptoms
Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!
Yes, she needs to take them or she will either get worse because there is still an infection in her blood or the next time she is sick she will need stronger and longer meds.
At most pharmacies, they have the squirter syringes so you can get it in the back of their throat. If she is too old for that method, then just PARENT and get the job done. She is the child, you are the grown up. It is your responsibility to maintain her good health. You know your child and how to talk to them and coax them to take their meds. You don’t have to be liked by your kids. Your not their friend. There will be times they will be upset with you because as children they do not grasp the reasoning behind neccessary tasks. You do. So what if the child is upset. Tears will dry and she will get over it. But she will do so with good health.
Whenever you are given a medication (other than pain meds or a medicine that says AS NEEDED on the bottle), you must take all of the meds. That is the treatment the doctor took the time out to order for her. You asked the doctor to make your child better, he gives you a script and you give your child the script.
As far as wanting to take meds, no kid wants to. Thats why parents are parents and not your schoolmate. I had to take 12 pills every 4 hours for 4 years of my childhood. I hated every time. And sometimes I got upset with my mom but I love her for taking care of me and making sure I took them. She didn’t do what I wanted, she did what I needed.
yes or you can create a drug resistant form of the bacteria and the antibiotics may not work next time.
It is extremely important. If the full course is not finished, even though she may be feeling better some bacteria are still present and if they are not completely wiped out they will continue to multiply and possibly create an even worse infection. What’s worse is that they will most likely be resistant to the antibiotics next time since they have gotten a "taste" of them and will be able to change to survive them in the future.
She should take them. You are given a set amount of antibiotic in order to ensure that it kills the infection. If you stop taking the medicine early, you run a good chance of the infection starting up again and also it could come back worse because it may well have developed an immunity to that particular antibiotic.
It is very important. There may still be some bacteria, which would have the chance to multiply and cause more problems if someone stops taking antibiotics too soon.