One of my sweet babies is at the doctor with her daddy right now. Daycare called him and said that she refused her breakfast and threw up her lunch bottle. Since she threw up her dinner bottle last night and refused dinner he went and picked her up since it's apparent that she's got something bugging her.
Oddly, I was just commenting last night about how great it is to have two healthy babies since they are on the last day of 2nd round of antibiotics for ear infections.
So the doctor said that the throwing up and refusal to eat is because she STILL has the same ear infections and they look almost worse. She was on amoxicillian for 10 days and like I said is on day 10 of omnicef. She just got a shot of rocephin and we have to go back tomorrow to get another.
This is the first ear infection she's had (for over 25 days now) but she's had a few colds without ear infections. Anyone else's LO resistant to antibiotics?
Re: Antibiotic resistant ear infection?
It could be possible; same thing happened to my daughter. She just had tubes in her ears in part because of it.
However, the same thing used to happen to me when I was a child, and I wasn't a preemie and hardly ever had antibiotics (except for the ear infections). Talk to the dr. about whether or not this will want them to consider tubes earlier than might usually happen--doctors usually wait for a certain number of ear infections in a single year.
It could just be a particularly resistant strain. They happen more and more now, with the increased rise of effective antibiotics.
JS had a never-ending ear infection. We did 10 days of Amox, 7 days of Amox-Clav & 10 days of Omniceph before it went away. So frustrating!
JS was mostly a feeder and grower while in the NICU. Never had to receive meds other than his caffeine. I don't know if being a preemie contributes to it, but I know the resistance wasn't a preemie/NICU issue.
Hope your LO feels better soon!
Yes.
Andrew had 3 sinus/ear infections last year that didn't respond. They believe because of his reflux.
he would do amox - didn't work at all - then 10 days of augmentin - no dice - 3 weeks of omnicef - no dice, then receophin worked after 2-3 months of hell.
the 3rd time, he saw an ENT, got tubes and adenoids out last dec. he also got allergy testing (negative) and immune system testing (a bit below the normal range.. That and reflux are believed to be the reasons he could not clear infection.
He hasn't had an infection for an entire year - he just got a sinus infection. augmentin got rid of it in 2 weeks this time.
Reflux? Really?!?!
Yet another reason Reflux can FRO.