Ugh. Just back from a pointless visit to: the GP who felt that something was wrong with Olivia, but didn't know what, so he sent us to the hospital to see if there was something more. So today, a GP, two hospital nurses and a hospital doctor all felt Olivia's glands, took her temperature, looked in her ears and throat, listened to her heart and lungs and shrugged.
The ball of her foot was swollen, my homeopath was worried it could be a sign of infection in her kidneys (post strep and all) , hence the precautionary doctor visit. The doctor was worried by her cold hands and feet (though, I think she usually has cold hands and feet and is just a bit run down) and her pale face and lingering cold sores. But he couldn't tell what was wrong.
I thought the hospital would do a urine test and blood test, but the doctor there didn't seem to think it was necessary. She said she'd do a urine test if I wanted but seemed to think I was being silly. I thought they'd all be all over the fact that I didn't get her antibiotics for Strep, but they didn't seem to care much. I did read an article that said it's becoming quite resistant to antibiotics now, and that people were truning to other treatments, maybe that's why.
So the poor kid has had an XRay to see if there was a foreign body in her foot causing it to swell (no sign of one).
I dunno. I feel crappy about it - I've lost a day of work I was counting on, spent €60 at the doctor, she's missed another day of school, and ... well. Peace of mind. Except I don't really have any great sense of peace of mind as they did so little with her except irradiate her. And it's not the actual swelling I was worried about, so much as the possible infection connection.
This is rambling, I know. I just wish it was all a bit more conclusive. I'm going back to cold water and homeopathy to help her swollen foot, I'm dithering to and fro about giving her anti biotics to get rid of the lingering bacteria. I don't know, I just don't know. If I do I wipe out all the rest of the bacteria to, suppress her own immune responses and have to deal with reestablishing it all and her immune system afterwards. And pro biotics are expensive.
I hate being responsible for the kids' health, I really do, and I wish my mother was here to make decisions for me and give them 24/7 care.
The ball of her foot was swollen, my homeopath was worried it could be a sign of infection in her kidneys (post strep and all) , hence the precautionary doctor visit. The doctor was worried by her cold hands and feet (though, I think she usually has cold hands and feet and is just a bit run down) and her pale face and lingering cold sores. But he couldn't tell what was wrong.
I thought the hospital would do a urine test and blood test, but the doctor there didn't seem to think it was necessary. She said she'd do a urine test if I wanted but seemed to think I was being silly. I thought they'd all be all over the fact that I didn't get her antibiotics for Strep, but they didn't seem to care much. I did read an article that said it's becoming quite resistant to antibiotics now, and that people were truning to other treatments, maybe that's why.
So the poor kid has had an XRay to see if there was a foreign body in her foot causing it to swell (no sign of one).
I dunno. I feel crappy about it - I've lost a day of work I was counting on, spent €60 at the doctor, she's missed another day of school, and ... well. Peace of mind. Except I don't really have any great sense of peace of mind as they did so little with her except irradiate her. And it's not the actual swelling I was worried about, so much as the possible infection connection.
This is rambling, I know. I just wish it was all a bit more conclusive. I'm going back to cold water and homeopathy to help her swollen foot, I'm dithering to and fro about giving her anti biotics to get rid of the lingering bacteria. I don't know, I just don't know. If I do I wipe out all the rest of the bacteria to, suppress her own immune responses and have to deal with reestablishing it all and her immune system afterwards. And pro biotics are expensive.
I hate being responsible for the kids' health, I really do, and I wish my mother was here to make decisions for me and give them 24/7 care.
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Are they suggesting antibiotics? You know, reestablishing friendly flora is not that hard or strenuous on the body. Really. If she is fighting an infection that antibiotics could easily clear up, I would go for it.
Maybe Mary. All any doctors suggest here tends to be anti biotics. I'm thinking about it, we'll see.
Belgians are all against antibiotics now. Which I get. But then today the doctor gave me some anyway in case Charlie gets sick on holiday, because he's a baby and it's his ears.
I hope Olivia gets better soon. Sounds like a crappy day. So I hope tomorrow (well, later today) is better for you.
I'm doing some reading, and I think it's clear that within the next decade, we are all going to think very differently about antibiotics.
Even Louis Pasteur recanted before he died.
However, until they find something better for ears, I can see that antibiotics are the only way - you can't afford to mess with earache, I know.
I've been lucky so far in that mine have had v few of them, and the homeopathy and a dose of Calpol have always sorted them out.
But again, we've had nothing serious. Touch wood.
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