Our little Mr. Reagan has had a cold for a few weeks. Nothing major, mostly runny nose and a little coughing. However this past week it has gotten worse. After he coughed through three or four nights, had a fever for a few days and got sick twice on Saturday from coughing, I had had enough and decided to take him to the pediatric walk-in clinic on Sunday morning. I had no idea what was wrong.
To my surprise the dr looked in his ears, told me one of his tubes had come out and he had an ear infection in that ear. Thus explaining the irritability and the high temperature. So becomes my dilemma....do I fill this prescription that he just gave me or do I keep giving him Motrin and take him to the chiropractor on Monday. In the past an ear infection went away with an adjustment and some Motrin. But being a weekend and being he was so miserable, I decided to fill the prescription. First mistake.
We made it home and I gave Reagan the first "taste" of his medication. Not even close to a full dose. What did he do? Threw it up because he coughed so hard from the awful taste. Lovely. $37 for a medication which he won't take. So comes my question that I think is not rocket science...when you have a two year old needing medication, why in the world would you prescribe something that tastes so terrible and is three times as much as what this child has had in the past? Perhaps it was a punishment for the mother of this child as the child was quite fussy during the entire exam. I don't know but I was ticked, my child was still not better and I just threw $37 in the garbage. One would think that a doctor who is the head of the CHILDRENS hospital and who has been with this hospital for over 30 years would have a better idea of what medications kids will take.
Is part of this my fault? Sure. I should have remembered what the last medication Reagan had for an ear infection was. The problem was that we had been treating the ear infections for so long without medications that I didn't remember and I didn't think to ask. So the moral of the story is, keep a note in your purse of not only your child's medication allergies (because after the first child, you can't keep them straight) but also keep a list of what meds work for your kids and what ones don't.
My problem is that we try so hard to avoid the medications and antibiotics that when they do need them it is few and far between. Which I suppose is a good thing until this mommy needs to remember one of them.
End of the story - Reagan got a chiropractor adjustment today and I called his normal doctor and got a better prescription which was a third of the cost.
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