How many times have your kids had antibiotics?
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Anonymous
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I realized that as a parent (oldest is turning 12) of three kids I have only administered antibiotics 2 or 3 times per kid. Reading an interesting article about how antibiotics in kids screw up their gut biome and lead to problems later in life.
Have your kids been on antibiotics a lot? |
Anonymous
| My kids are 14 and 16. Maybe twice each? I can’t remember the last time they were prescribed them. Years ago. |
Anonymous
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I think mine have had antibiotics a few times each.
Ages 15-17. |
Anonymous
| I don't know if I could count. My kid had strep throat 8 times in 10 months when they were 5/6 years old before the ENT would take out their tonsils and adenoids. They're now 14 and probably only been on antibiotics a handful of times since that horrible year. |
Anonymous
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Yes you get a great parenting award and the rest of us have screwed up our kids.
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Anonymous
| I think twice: once as an infant for pneumonia and once about a year ago for a bad ear infection. |
Anonymous
| Not a lot. My kids didn't really get strep or ear iinfections. My youngest has probably had them 4x and the oldest 1x. |
Anonymous
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Mine are 18 and 22. The older one had a couple of ear infections when she was little, but I only remember the younger one getting them once. He was a toddler and had a weird behavioral reaction to them, and that's the only time I remember hime taking them.
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Anonymous
Yeah so OP didn't even make any indication that was her thought process. What a gross overreaction on your end. I too find it interesting how different antibiotics are now being looked at. As a kid (I'm 40) I was on antibiotics a lot because they seemed to throw them at any illness without a care if it was viral. It felt more a "let's just have you take them to see if it helps". And now they've done a lot of research that shows antibiotics aren't all that wonderful for many reasons. DS is 13 and has been on them twice. I'd probably been on them 20 times by his age. |
Anonymous
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DC21 - 0
DC16 - 2 But I don't like your smugness, OP. Some humans just need antibiotics more often, and it's not their fault, not their parents' fault, not the doctors' fault. |
Anonymous
+1 My 17 year old, twice I think. The 15 year old, maybe 4-5 times, but it’s been years since. |
Anonymous
| 21 times 21 |
Anonymous
| Nine year old, once for an ear infection a few years ago is all I can remember. Definitely less than I got growing up, I think I was on amoxicillin once a year. |
Anonymous
| We’ve managed to avoid them with all of mine so far (still a few years to go though). Doctors give them out far too frequently IMHO. |
Anonymous
| 10 year old, 2 times, both on walking pneumonia. 7 year old, zero time. |