First are you sure she isn't allergic to penicillin and Tylenol? I made my son
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Posted By: an old mom on February 13, 2005 at 14:28:11:
In Reply to: Anyone have any ideas how to get a 4 (almost 5 y/o) to take amoxicillin - sm posted by Laura E. on February 13, 2005 at 14:11:37:
take baby aspirin when he was little and I feel so bad even these years later because we finally (I was a single mom and no body told me people could be sensitive to aspirin), that he is allergic to aspirin! He had terrible stomaches from the aspirin. Secondly, make sure first that the strep is going to even be effective against this strain of strep. They "throw" amoxicillin at everything - makes me so angry. Any many times you have to either redose or start all over with yet another antibiotic. If penicillin really is going to be effective - I would say don't play around with strep (remember the bad things it can do) -- there is a whole generation who lived with that "shot of penicillin" at the doctor's office and it worked better than this pink stuff we keep in the refrigerator and give by the bucketsful during their growing up years. Get the shot - get it over with - and let her get well. As for the fever, remember fever is sometimes helpful in killing a bug, so as long as it isn't outrageously high, keep her cooled down but let the fever do it's job. Can she take aspirin? If she can, remember aspirin boots the immune system also whereas Tylenol is hard on the liver. But if she has had chicken pox or a virus BY NO MEANS EVER GIVE ASPIRIN - as you may end up with Guillian-Barre syndrome and that's a bad thing!. Well, that's all I know. I'd say get the penicillin SHOT, keep her cooled down, and don't worry about "traumatizing" from the shot. She will get over that. But she won't get over Scarlet fever so good.
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