ANTIBIOTICS

I'm a horrible mother. Last weekend JP started acting irritable. I did a quick assessment ... looked in his ears and mouth, took his temp, gave him some tylenol, and blamed his c-r-a-b-b-y temperament on his loose cough and emerging teeth. As the week went by, three new teeth made an appearance and his cough went away. But the tears and tantrums continued. I didn't reassess the etiology of his sudden change in mood until Friday afternoon. I looked in his ears and saw a raging ear infection. Double ear infection, actually. Adam whisked him away to the walk in clinic and within an hour the two were back with a big pink bottle of Amoxicillin in hand. I'm just so horrible ... I should have looked much sooner! Other than his well child exams, JP has only visited the doctor on one other occasion. He's never had an ear infection before. He's never been on antibiotics. My mind just wasn't thinking down this path ... here he probably went the whole week in pain and I didn't do anything! After just a few doses of the medicine, JP is back to his sweet self.