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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a pediatrician, the amount of misinformation on this thread is mind boggling.  It's like a perfect storm of terrible information from multiple angles.  It makes me want to retire. I mean, image going to school for what seems like eternity, and practicing medicine within relatively limited scope (pediatric primary care) for two full decades. And having these moms come at you with their random, highly misinterpreted internet research and comments like "I feel like I've been gaslighted, antibiotics DO work for viral infections!" and accusing you of treating amoxicillin like oxycontin.

Except the poster who is dying on the hill of "green mucus does not necessarily mean you have a bacterial infection".  You can stay. [/quote]

If it starts to get thicker and green or dark colored [b]it’s most likely bacterial but not always.[/b]

If your child has a runny nose and a few days later a high fever with thick dark color mucus, and headache you go to the doctor.  Dark green mucus is one possible symptom of bacterial sinusitis.

Like any illness there is always a [b]possible[/b] list of symptoms.  An exam and tests are necessary to diagnose.  I don’t know why people freak over giving their kids antibiotics.

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Kids under age 10-12 aren’t typically going to present with headaches from sinusitis because their frontal sinuses aren’t fully developed yet. Again- people know a little info but not all the info and it leads to them demanding antibiotics because their 6 year old has a headache and a fever a week into their cold. More likely it’s a new viral process. The mucus was going to be thicker and darker anyways at that point. [/quote]

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