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I am worried about the amount of antibiotics my youngest son has had over the last year. He had osteomylitis and obviously had to have lots of antibiotics. He went to docs a few weeks ago with a cough - the doc spent about 30 seconds examining him and gave him antibiotics. My other son went to another doc in the practice with same symptoms and was not given antibiotics. I have taken my youngest son to the first doc again with a swollen toe and after taking one look at his toe said it was infected and once again prescribed antibiotics. I feel that both visits we were only in the room less than a minute and came out with a prescription for antibiotics which has made me wonder if he is too quick to prescribe the medicines. My son was taking 3 lots of antibiotics for 12 weeks earlier in the year and has had another 3 lots for other complaints since then. Is this too much or is it okay to take so many of them? I would really appreciate your advice
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Your son has had too many infections in a year. Did the symptoms that you mentioned subside with antibiotics? If yes, then he probably had an infection. What you need to find out is the cause for so many infections in a year especially osteomyelitis that was severe. He could be having an underlying immunodeficiency where his own body resistance would be not able to fight the infection. You need to consult a pediatric immunologist for the same. Back to All Questions

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