Very annoyed at pediatrician!!!

brandywine24

So my 4yo daughter has had a fever of 101-102 since Friday!  I looked in her throat and saw white spots on her tonsils.  My husband took her to the pediatrician this morning and they said it is a virus.  No white spots.  No meds.  I can look in there now and see the white spots.  The strep test that they did was negative, but there are other bacteria that infect the throat. How do they know that it isn't infected with some other bacteria?  She hasn't been in for a sick visit since she was 1 1/2!  How hard would it have been to give her an antibiotic???  They saw this really old dr, who told me last time I was in that my son had beautiful clear ears, yet later that day when we were at the ENT the dr showed me the fluid in both ears!   Today the ped dr told my husband that he coudl see both her ear drums and there was no wax, yet I have been treating her with ear drops the past 2 weeks to soften the impacted ear wax that the ENT is removing on Tues.from her left ear!  The right ear had like 2 chunks of wax that looked like giant raisins, and the left ear was worse!  How coudl I miss that coming out of her ear?  I am so frustrated b/c she is seems to be gettting worse. 

Did this ever happen to you?  I plan on calling again tomorrow and making her another appointment at our usual office, not the Sunday visit office.  Thanks for listening to my vent.

KRISTA555

Not flaming... really. But, why have you continued to go to this Dr.? 

Kapalua

yeah, I might consider a different urgent care option next time.  What's the point of going on a Sunday if your kid is being misdiagnosed so often? 

brandywine24

It is a very large practice, with about 15 doctors.  The dr I do not like does not operate out of the office I go to regularly.  When I made the appointment this morning I totally forgot to ask which dr she would be seeing. 

caitlinsmom

Chances are it's a virus (or that the longer strep test is going to come back positive) and if it's a virus antibiotics aren't going to do a thing. 

White spots do not automatically equal bacteria. 

 

Mickschick

It probably is a virus and not strep. I had coxsackie virus (hand foot and mouth) back in May and I was convinced it was strep. I was wrong and they can't give an antibiotic for any virus....they need to just run their course.

goodheartedmommy

Sounds like coxsackie.

Good for your doctor for not just handing you an RX for antibiotics. 

BubblyToes

goodheartedmommy:

Sounds like coxsackie.

Good for your doctor for not just handing you an RX for antibiotics. 

This.
If it's truly strep, the culture will come back positive in a day or so. But it sounds like Coxsackie. And the doc did the right thing.

justEK

Having her gargle with warm salt water may help her a little.

It's good they didn't just hand over a script for an antibiotic. 

chelle828

Two things:  one, the doc you're going to doesn't sound that great.  Two, he did do the right thing for not giving you antibiotics before any tests came back.  Giving out antibiotics for everything is exactly what is causing all of the resistance problems.  Putting your child on antibiotics then calling in a few days and saying oops, nope, it was a virus and go off the antibiotics is just going to give any bacteria in her body a good look at the antibiotics so they can just be resistant to it next time. 

Littlejen22

KRISTA555:

Not flaming... really. But, why have you continued to go to this Dr.? 

This, if you cannot trust all the doctors you need a new one.