Antibiotic allergy/side effects

doschicos
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 16:31:18 +0000

Thanks everyone for your comments, concern, and advice. Love the Parent Cafe for everyone’s kindness and collective wisdom!

I haven’t talked to my kid in the past 24 hours (no news is good news!) but as of yesterday the patient was feeling much better. After sleeping a good chunk of Wednesday, the tiredness abated. The rash is still not completely gone but had improved and at least no more rash covering the entire face.

@zobroward - I agree with your comments. The stopping of the antibiotics and the diagnosis of a drug reaction (which isn’t necessarily deemed an allergy from my reading) was made by the nurse practitioner. The nurse thought the strep had cleared up but we’ll monitor things in case any symptoms resurface.