Anonymous
06/19/2026 15:23
Subject: Lately Pediatricians have diagnosed something as viral, only for us to return and require antibiotics
Anonymous wrote:School systems now require doctors notes when absent for consecutive days. A kid cannot stay home for 5 days without a doctor note.
If your kid is sick enough to be unable to attend school for 5 full days in a row, they should be seen by their pediatrician. That’s not a school system glitch. Most kids are ok to go back after 1-2 days at home from the vast majority of viruses. A fever for 5 full days needs an assessment from someone. (This is the pediatrician)
Anonymous
06/19/2026 15:21
Subject: Lately Pediatricians have diagnosed something as viral, only for us to return and require antibiotics
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
If it starts to get thicker and green or dark colored it’s most likely bacterial but not always.
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 possible list of symptoms. An exam and tests are necessary to diagnose. I don’t know why people freak over giving their kids antibiotics.
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.
Anonymous
06/19/2026 15:20
Subject: Lately Pediatricians have diagnosed something as viral, only for us to return and require antibiotics
School systems now require doctors notes when absent for consecutive days. A kid cannot stay home for 5 days without a doctor note.
Anonymous
06/19/2026 13:42
Subject: Lately Pediatricians have diagnosed something as viral, only for us to return and require antibiotics
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
I was just about to say this. I’m an internist and wow a lot of misinformation here. I wish people would trust the experts more these days.
How in the hell are we supposed to do this when the "experts" running the CDC are doing what they are doing? Punch up, not down.
Hegseth eliminated the requirement for flu vaccines in new army people. About 160 Air Force recruits within weeks of the eliminated vaccine are sick with the flu. They need to be isolated and training is delayed. Only 40% opted to receive the vaccine. Hegseth probably called them pussys
Anonymous
06/19/2026 13:34
Subject: Lately Pediatricians have diagnosed something as viral, only for us to return and require antibiotics
Anonymous wrote: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.
If it starts to get thicker and green or dark colored it’s most likely bacterial but not always.
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 possible list of symptoms. An exam and tests are necessary to diagnose. I don’t know why people freak over giving their kids antibiotics.