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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WWYD?

8 year old at doctor with a sore throat.  All indications are she needs a strep test.  They need to swab her throat.
My child HATES the throat swab and refused to cooperate.  REFUSED.  Clamped her mouth shut.

I'm all for my kids being masters of their own bodies but, at what point as a parent do you force them to do something like this?  [/quote]

So you aren't able to force, right? What are you going to do, sedate them or tie them down and somehow pry their jaws open? No. Not worth it, even if possible. We are talking strep here, not Ebola.[b] You can presumptively treat, or chose not to and kid can weather it without antibiotics.[/b]

The other option, of course, is not to force but coerce. Bribery, threats, guilt tripping, the whole parental toolkit of coercion techniques. :-) I assume, of course, that calm discussion of pros and cons and antibiotic resistance etc. was tried and didn't work![/quote]

I sincerely hope that when your kids have strep you don't let them "weather it out without antibiotics". Strep may be common but that doesn't mean that it isn't serious.

My stepsister ended up in the hospital for over a month when shr developed rheumatic fever due to untreated strep when she was 12. She very nearly died &, 15 years later, she still had heart problems as a result. All this could have been prevented had she been given antibiotics on time.[/quote]

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