You’ve had some shocking care there, you were 100% right to seek help and you’ve been somewhat fobbed off.Hi guys. Just wondering if I can get some fellow parental opinions.
Took my 2.5 year old daughter to A&E Thursday night. Basically the childminder told me when I picked her up, that she's choked on some food at lunch and been sick, but that she was otherwise ok and just scared herself a bit mainly. Anyway, when we got home, she was hysterical, kept putting her fingers in her mouth, gagging, pulling these weird faces and sticking her tongue out and just generally miserable. So I rang 111 as I was worried that maybe some food was still lodged or something. The GP told me to go to A&E. They were a bit off with us and made us feel like we'd wasted their time, but they listened to her lungs and tried their best to look in her mouth (difficult!) and said nothing was there but maybe her throat was just sore from being sick or she was traumatised etc.
Roll on the next morning, she wakes up with a raging temp of 39.9. I instantly have visions of this being connected and her having bloody sepsis or something so we ring 111 again. After an age on hold, they say to wait for a callback from a GP. 5 hours later, the GP books us a face to face appointment. We turn up, GP is fuming we haven't done a lateral flow (my bad but I don't have any and I'm not paying!). Basically checks her temp which is lower by now as we've given Calpol etc, listens to her chest, checks briefly in her mouth and diagnoses tonsillitis.
NOW my issue is, the doc at the A&E the night before actually expressly said 'her tonsils are quite big but not red and definitely not infected'.
We've been given antibiotics (Penicillin V) but I cannot get them in to her for love nor money. 4 of us pinning her down and she still won't open her mouth and I've tried everything. She gets so distressed she then vomits and it's a waste of time. Can't put it in yoghurt or juice as it's bright orange, so she notices the colour change and the taste and just refuses it.
I know antibiotics are important but:
1) I'm wondering how two different GPs can have such differing opinions when they barely looked in her mouth in the first place.
Also she now has a runny nose and cough, which surely is a virus and ABs won't work?
2) Is it worth distressing my daughter and making her vomit? Disguising it is just not working and I'm worried she'll refuse to eat or drink even the tiny amount she is now having, as she suspects me of hiding it in her food.
If you read all this, thank you
Antibiotics can be hard work to get in. Is it that she doesn’t like the flavour? If so you can request something else for her which she may find more palatable. But yes, I find GPs still massively over prescribe ABX for things when they aren’t needed.
I would request a change in prescription and if she is still refusing them there isn’t much you can do really.
Hope she feels better soon
Not sure what happened next as it was a while ago, think the temp wasn’t coming down, and I took him up a&e. He had really bad tonsillitis. He was so poorly
they don’t make them like they used to! 
). Getting calpol into her is awful nothing works at 3am!! Obviously by midnight it’s more or less worn off even if I give it before bed. I’m a single mum so trying to pin her down is so hard. Thankfully the calpol nights are few and far between now.
