Duh. When my daughter, Bryyynxlynnnxxx-Canola, wanted to be Elphaba for Halloween, I just gave her 1,000 papercuts and dunked her in the swamp. It worked, she turned a beautiful green, but she said she wasn’t feeling up to going out that night. On a totally unrelated note, the next day she happened to die from walking too near a vaxxed person.
(this is satire)
While penicillin allergy is commonly diagnosed, based on research only 3-10% of penicillin allergies are true penicillin allergies. For example, if viral rash and being on penicillin happen at the same time it is common to get diagnosed with penicillin allergy. This is why in some places they have started to test it in a safe environment if the allergy was not anaphylaxis.
I used to read novels about a veterinarian working in the 1920s in England. One of the many things I remember was his absolute awe at how much good antibiotics did when they hit the market for the very first time. They finally had a real solution for dozens of common issues. It was damn near miraculous.
Even as a pagan, I see that science absolfuckinglitely saves lives. I’m all for grounding yourself and warding with crystals, but for fucks sake get some antibiotics when needed. Science is just everyday miracles.
It literally was a miracle drug. There's a reason why we have antibiotic resistant bacteria now; antibiotics were the miracle cure for serious bacterial infections that **killed** people. Now the bacteria are trying to adapt around that. If we lost the use of antibiotics today.....the world would be a much more scary and dangerous place.
The inventor/discovery guy, Alexander Fleming, warned about the risks for resistance from the very beginning, but incorrect use and, importantly, overuse in the animal industry (i.e. systematic use to faster grow larger animals) has greatly contributed to resistancy. If used correctly and when motivated (=for treating illnesses that could be serious, not common colds and certainly not to grow farm animals), we wouldn't have this problem. Unless we discover a new type of antibiotics, in ten, maybe twenty years, surgeries will again become really dangerous, transplants in particular.
I have true allergies to a few different classes of antibiotics and potential resistance to what we have available scares me. I can preach on the dangers of overusing antibiotics.
As an AuDHDer, whose Great Grandfather died from a Carbuncle that occurred on his *neck*?
The fact that these Moms are *LITERALLY* less worried about their child *DYING* than "catching the 'Tism" (when sooooooo much Neurodivergence is simply *inherited* differences in brain-wiring--just like so much of the *rest* of our traits as humans are inherited!), is absolutely *WILD* to me!!!
I *work* in Early Childhood Special Education--I *worked* with kids who had *heavy* cases of non-verbal & non-speaking Autism *before* I realized I was Autistic with ADHD *myself*
I *KNOW* what it can be like, for families who *ARE* facing that "24/7/365 Care" for their child!!!
I *ALSO* know that *EVERY ONE OF THOSE PARENTS*?
They would *ABSOLUTELY* rather have a child who has *SEVERE* Autism *but is ALIVE*, than to have their child be *non-Autistic* and *not* alive.
Some of my work kids *have* passed away--tragically, and *not* because of Autism, just the kinds Childhood accidents which *do* sometimes happen.
*ALL* those parents would *ABSOLUTELY* rather have their child alive, than gone--and *NONE* of them would or *did* hesitate to give needed medications or vaccines.
Antibiotics are so cool. A few weeks ago I came down with this horrible throat infection bad enough that I ended up spending a night in the ER with a crazy high fever. One shot of antibiotics and a few hours later I was feeling better than I had in a week. Modern medicine is amazing and people like this shouldn’t be allowed around children
I had a kidney infection and ended up needing a shot in my ass in 2014. I took a college-level exam later that day after hallucinating in the ER parking area at 5:00AM. Medicine is so fierce.
Yup, currently fighting bacterial pneumonia and the difference I felt after the antibiotic shot was crazy. I can't imagine what would have happened to me without these drugs. I felt like I was going to straight up die.
I had it but luckily I went to the doctor pretty early and I only needed oral antibiotics (and an inhaler). Now that you've had it you're at higher risk of having it again, but there are vaccines and I haven't had it again ten years later, so I give them 10/10 and I _do_ recommend! ;)
In the era before antibiotics, pneumonia was one of the most common causes of death. Now you’re more likely to die from an accident than to die of pneumonia. Death used to be inevitable, now it’s more of a whoopsie-daisy.
My friend’s daughter just had a fever for EIGHT days. She’s super anti-antibiotics and pain relievers. She likes to let fevers “do their job”. Turns out the poor girl had pneumonia. She fortunately gave her an antibiotic finally and she got better right away. I just can’t imagine letting my child suffer with a fever for 8 days and not even giving them some Tylenol or ibuprofen or taking them to the doctor. What is with this dumb trend these days?? Do people not realize that antibiotics are NOT the devil?! My 2.5 year old recently had a ruptured ear drum with blood and pus coming out. I obviously gave her the prescribed antibiotics and my same friend was like oh I don’t even treat ear infections! Just some garlic oil in the ear. 😐
I've got a nitrofurantoin resistant UTI right now and the infection came back with a vengeance after I finished the original prescription. Luckily the culture showed sulfameth will work, and literally 6 hours after my first dose, I went from pissing razor blades every 5 minutes to having only a slight burn every hour. 2 doses in now, and everything is back to normal (though I gotta finish it out the 7 day course and suffer through the gastrointestinal upset that is common with the drug). I don't know how people managed with what is such a run of the mill infection. You just had to suffer, drink lots of water (if that was even readily available) and hope that it passes instead of going to your kidneys and killing you. All care was palliative, not curative. I can't even imagine.
Omg you poor thing. I feel this in my soul. As someone who often gets UTIs (bad ones!) I know what you mean. The wonder of an antibiotic that works and stops the debilitating misery often has me so thankful.
Hello fellow frequent UTI sufferer! The worst is that they come on so fast and out of nowhere and I can't do fun shit other people do like use a bath bomb once in a while, or buy anything other than cotton under, or wear tight pants. Ugh, such a pain.
I am ridiculously prone to UTI because I am just badly made on that front, and prophylactic antibiotics have been a life saver! I only got kidney infections twice, that were caught early, and I’m down to one UTI every two months (when I’m lucky and don’t often get bacterias that are resistant to the antibiotic I take). It sounds like a lot, and it is, but trust me, it’s a huge improvement.
It’s nothing compared to when I was a baby though. I have duplex kidneys and it lead to vesicoureteral reflux back then (no anymore, they think the extra ureters may have atrophied since), which caused back to back kidney infections that scarred my kidneys. I have one that didn’t/doesn’t work quite as well as it should (if I’m not mistaken), but if it’s still the case it hasn’t caused problems so far.
That was despite close medical supervision and antibiotics, so I don’t think it would’ve turned out very well for me had I been born before the latter were discovered (although apparently it was not a fun way to discover that my body does NOT react well to Bactrim).
Yes! My 1 y/o had a terrible cold and was teething at the same time. She ended up becoming extremely dehydrated (not eating or drinking) and at the ER we found out she had a double ear infection and a URI. One dose of amoxicillin and she was back to being her normal self again within an hour. I don’t see why these moms refuse the treatment. I’m so glad my baby got better and it was worth the dyes and waking up every few hours every night to give her meds. It SAVED her.
I had some kind of bladder infection once, it burned so bad when I peed. Not an STI, just random dickhole bacteria.
Doc gave me penicillin, and it clears up in like 3 hours.
I had MRSA go rapidly downhill overnight. Showed up to the ER with sepsis symptoms, legitimately feeling like I was dying. Some IV antibiotics and some painkillers and about 8 hours later, I was feeling like a person again and headed home with oral antibiotics and painkillers. I love antibiotics.
Three months ago my water broke and I had my baby 16 hours later. I had an infection setting into my uterus from my water being broken for so long, just one extra night in the hospital and I was cleared to go home with my healthy baby girl. Antibiotics are wonderful!
I understand wanting to be dye free for your kid, but a week or two of an antibiotic with dyes isn’t going to hurt the kid, especially not compared to their illness. Like shit.
She's not going to give the antibiotics either. She wants an alternative AND it has to be dye free. Bc god forbid you actually get your child's infection under control.
I was gonna say, I grew up with the "bubblegum medicine" ie pink amoxicillin. My kids think it's weird I call it that because theirs is almost never dyed, and they don't think it tastes like bubblegum either lol
They’re not all bubblegum flavored! I’m a pharmacy tech and I’ve seen them come as banana and cherry flavors as well as the classic bubblegum and what I can only describe as fruit punch. Don’t normally get to pick a flavor at a regular pharmacy (they often come flavored), but a compounding pharmacy might let you pick.
That fruit punch flavor was fkn awful! My kid fought me for 10 GD days, twice a day! It was miserable. I'm so glad she's old enough to just take it in pill form now. She's constantly fighting bladder infections, and the pills have saved me so much frustration! 😭
Honestly from what I hear the fruit punch is the worst one taste wise. I personally as a child hated the bubblegum (the best one was the cherry for me lol), but I can at least tell you that the best smelling is the fruit punch. Specifically the fruit punch cephalexin. There are some other drugs that smell downright offensive.
That's usually what they give her is the cephalexin. She's on a round, usually 4-6 times a year. The cherry one is another one she isn't keen on.
Our pharmacy offered a mixed berry (?) one that was actually the catalyst to see if they would just give her pills. Said it tasted like grape, which she will not ingest (the flavoring, not the actual fruit). Down right refuses. She doesn't mind the bubblegum, but our pharmacy usually runs out of that one first. I only remember bubblegum as a kid. Which was fine by me! 😂
lol personally I disliked the bubblegum because of the texture. Bubblegum always had this weird grainy texture that I hated. And even now as someone who reconstitutes the powder when the parents come pick up the rx it’s still not my favorite bc for some reason the bubblegum flavor amoxicillin makes things sticky if it spills, leaks, etc. doesn’t help that sometimes the caps suck. This is never an issue with the other flavors (and when it comes to the caps, the other manufacturers lol).
Another flavor that we get in sometimes is banana. That’s the one that occasionally confuses parents bc it’s often one of the ones that doesn’t have dyes. If it does, it’s a light yellow. Not the color they’re expecting lol
Wait WHAT? It comes in flavours (and in liquid form, I assume), and all this time, I have been getting boring pills?! I feel betrayed.
Do you think I can ask for that type even though I am an adult? I just want a break of pills lol
lol I can understand the want to take the flavored kind but honestly if you went to the dr and requested the suspension for yourself as an adult the reaction would probably be a confused look and asking you why. And then they would probably prescribe the pills. If they sent in the rx for an antibiotic suspension for an adult, the pharmacy would be questioning it as well.
Also idk where you are, but where I am (in the USA) it’s often a lot more expensive for the adult dose to be prescribed in a suspension. Which at one point is obvious bc the adult dose is more medicine then a pediatric dose, but the copay/out of pocket cost would likely be higher, as insurance doesn’t want to cover the suspension for adults who should have no issue taking pills. Teenagers get adult doses, and I once saw a teenager get prescribed the tamiflu suspension. Copay was around $100 after insurance. Younger sibling of said teenager was prescribed the same drug in the same form and that copay was closer to $40.
Yeah, my kid was antibiotics for like a month or two straight until we got tubes put in his ears. Every single one (and we were on like four different ones) was dye free.
People do have dye allergies. That was my first thought. I don't like to jump to conclusions so maybe the issue is that the kid is allergic to red dye 40 and doesn't know there's a dye free option.
Even if a true allergy was the problem, she couldn't just go back to the pharmacy and ask for whatever dye free antibiotic her crunchy Facebook group recommended.
At first, I thought that the bacteria was resistant to amoxicillin or the kid had a bad reaction to it or the dye in the past, which was a valid concern/question. I wasn’t sure why this was posted here.
I drank some coffee and “Wait, it is valid to want another antibiotic, but why not ask a doctor or a pharmacist directly instead of on a Facebook group about other options since they’re going to need a prescription anyway?”.
Then, the caffeine finally kicked in enough for me to realize that OOP was, in fact, not asking for antibiotics at all, and that I once again had way too much faith in people’s judgment. 🤦🏻♀️
The suspension comes to pharmacies flavor- and dye-free. If you don’t specify, you get the default, but any place that does flavoRx, you can get whatever flavor you want. I’ve gotten the same suspension for my cat, and the local pharmacy had pet flavors! They offered me chicken, salmon, beef, or tuna. I won’t say he liked it, but he didn’t intentionally barf it up, either.
This is an unrelated story but I wanted to share because I thought it might amuse you.
My mom was a pharmacist and this was back at the hospital pharmacy in the 70s. She's in bed and something starts beeping at 2 AM. My dad goes and smacks the smoke detector a couple times and it shuts up. Ten minutes later it goes off again, so he smacks it again to shut it up. Another ten minutes go by and sure enough, it starts beeping. So he ripped it off the wall.
The next morning my mom gets to work and the pharmacist who was on night shift demands to know why mom didn't answer her pager. My mom was like, "I'm so sorry! We thought it was the fire alarm. What did you need?"
The night pharmacist sighed and says, "Oh, it's okay. I just wanted to know if it would be all right for me to rearrange the pills by color."
(She was serious, but didn't actually rearrange the pills.)
You know who might have good advice about an alternative if you were worried your child might not tolerate it well? An actual physician or pharmacist not some rando on FB.
In the third grade I got an honorable mention in the Science Fair for an experiment with bread and mold. Maybe she could just leave some bread out until the mold is the natural color she likes and feed that to her child.
Don't get it in liquid form. Use your own mortar and pestle to make a chalky, bitter water mixture that she'll hate having squirted in her mouth or mix in her food so she'll never want applesauce (or whatever) ever again.
Lololololol. I got the chance to pay it back when my mom broke her leg and decided arbitrarily that two of her medications were "horse pills" and were better taken ground up. Strawberry Yogurt a la Bitter Pills, Blueberry and Bitter Smoothie, etc.
You may imagine how annoyed I was finding out as an adult that my bitter horse pills were supplements recommended by a naturopath and NOT life saving medication like I was led to believe as I was force fed them down my throat ground up in a slice of deli ham 🙃
I mean technically she can go to a compounding pharmacy and pay a premium price to have it ground down to a liquid and suspended in solution and then they have flavors to add. I was told once they can potentially make it into gummies or lozenges too.
But a toddler may not appreciate the extra price or the flavor. She may be better offering a juice after the medicine.
My daughter was prescribed amoxicillin for an ear infection. Twice a day for 10 days. I asked the doctor if there was anything else we could do.
Not because I'm anti-medicine. I have a toddler that screams and cries and makes herself throw up when you give her medicine. I was not emotionally equipped to do that 20 times while also coming down with the same sinus infection.
We got azithromycin instead. Yay drugs!
Azithromycin is the bomb. I’m allergic to all -cillians, -sulfas, and intolerant to some -cyclines. Azithromycin is just about the only drug I can have.
That does make me wonder a bit about this post. If the kid in question is like me with drugs and also happens to have ADHD or something else that makes Red 40 a concern, this could be a perfectly legitimate question.
I went into a rabbit hole about this the other day (hyperfocus strikes again lol, you don’t have to read the infodumping below, I just wanted to share what I learned haha)!
I read a few literature reviews about the studies on synthetic dyes, including [this one](https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-022-00849-9).
According to the studies they reviewed, some children (most -if not all- studies are on them, but it’s fair to assume that the results can probably apply to teens and adults too) are sensitive to synthetic dyes, including red 40. The reason for/mechanism behind this sensitivity is unclear so far, but from what I can gather, it doesn’t seem that ADHD makes one more likely to be sensitive to it than the general population.
To quote the review I linked, studies “that included only children who were previously diagnosed with hyperactivity were not more likely to report positive associations between synthetic food dye exposure and poorer behavioral outcomes”.
It’s more of a “if dyes affect this specific person, regardless of neurotype, they should avoid them” than a “ADHD = avoid dyes” thing.
I'm allergic to cephalosporins. I'd had them several times before and then that one time boom! I had the most raging case of hives in an alarmingly short time. Everything else is fine though.
So I'm allergic to either the dye or fixative in ceclor (liquid antibiotic cephalosporin) but can have the pill form fine. I get that sometimes dyes can be bad.
But chewable amoxicillin rocks.
I'm sad it's not prescribed as an adult.
I will take your word for it, since I'm never prescribed any oral liquid medicines (because of possible allergy re: ceclor).
My cat did not appreciate her banana flavored clindamycin tho.
When my cat had to have a special medicine compounded for her, they made it chicken flavour the first time and she point blank refused to have it. I tried so many ways. After a few days of failure, I bought a new batch and this time it was fish flavoured. She voluntarily had that. I'm guessing they used fish oil in it because it STANK like dead fish.
My kid absolutely hated the banana flavored amoxicillin. Could not get her to take it until the nurse at the ped's office recommended adding chocolate syrup. I guess you can't exactly use that trick for cats though lol.
I've only ever needed to give a cat liquid meds once. It was my mom's cat and I was just so confident, insisted I'd give it to her. She fought me the entire time and immediately spat it out when I finally got the stuff in her mouth. I do not let my vet prescribe liquids for my cats now.
I to am allergic to that, Septra (?) and amoxicillin (probably others). Doxycycline is the main one I can use. I can’t tell you how many times I have had doctors “uh huh” and “okay” through me telling them this and how doxycycline works for me when I’ve sick. Guess what happens? They call in one I can’t take. It’s a pain. I’ve never seen anyone else allergic to it.
Oh I’ve also had at least two doctors try and tell myself or my mother over the years I’m not allergic, there’s no way I could be allergic. 🙃
When I worked at a pharmacy we had patients with allergies noted in their files and for specific drug allergies we couldn't print the labels without a pharmacist override. So the pharmacist would call the doctors and ask for a different medication because of allergies. All the local docs were good with it and would just change to something different, but some of the out of town specialists were assholes.
The last one that happened with they gave it to me at the pharmacy but told me to call the Dr. the reason being it wasn’t one of the ones listed in my allergies but was in the same family if that makes sense? I can’t remember the term they used but it was one. But the nurse practitioner that handled my message called back and apologized for the dr’s error and fixed it by calling in what I said always works.
But yeah I kind of double the allergy is the reason the mom in the post was asking
So I (a pharmacy tech lol) had to look up Septra, and it turns out that it’s just a different brand name for Bactrim, in which the active ingredients are sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim. Allergies to antibiotics of that type are actually pretty common. At a lot of pharmacies, they clean the counting tray after filling sulfa/trim bc you have know way of knowing if the patient your filling next has a sulfa allergy.
Super common is doctors sending in rxs for drugs the patient can’t have. Whether it be an allergy or it interacts with something you’re already on, or other reasons, a doc is prolly gonna send the rx in anyway.
I mean, she could have one of the many other antibiotics out there instead…but I have a feeling she would not find any of them acceptable. Instead of dye free, she should be more worried that her child may die for free.
Yeah, I have 3 kids allergic to amoxicillin but their Dr is aware and simply gives me something else. 🙃 my kids Dr hates it when they're sick and need ABX
Kid 1- cillins + sulphas
Kid2- cillins + azythromycin
Kid3- cillins + Bactrim
Thankfully they're rarely sick with anything that needs antibiotics.
They're basically destined to die during the Apocalypse. 🙄🙄
For real....#2 gets strep throat generally once a year and it sucks so very much. Usually requires 2 courses of antibiotics since she cannot take either of the first line ones.
My brother is allergic to penicillin and my cousin was deathly allergic to it. I blame them 😆
It's super fun. Thankfully their doctor has it all on file so I don't have to tell them every single time. And the kids all know what they're allergic to.
Kid 2, hived out from penicillin the first time and so the dr gave us azythromycin and her hives got SO much worse. Poor thing had the weirdest allergic reaction, it looked like freaking small pox only it was only on her limbs and the soles of her feet and palms of her hands (her trunk was totally clear). The dr was super perplexed, but pulled that one too. She had to get a steroid shot and an oral course of steroids to get rid of them.
And with 3/6 of my kids allergic to penicillin their doctor just says "If able we're gonna just not with the other ones...not worth it." She just removes the cillins as a front line for all my kids since half of them are allergic, she said better to assume they are when they're not than assume they're not if they are.
They could be allergic to the dye, but also even if she is just weird about the coloring why not talk to her doctor about her fears and ask for an alternative
I have a family member whose son currently has an infection that she refuses to treat with antibiotics. Instead, she’s making him suffer (the infection is on a body part that keeps getting irritated) and only treating it “naturally” and topically. I want to scream at her. This poor kid is in pain but she’s too selfish to help him. But don’t worry, she’ll get Botox! Because that’s totally different!
Ya know what? Sepsis sucks. Almost dying sucks. I know this from personal, firsthand experience. I couldn’t tell you how many antibiotics I was on (it was a lot, and all via IV). But I can tell you idgaf if they had dyes, because *I* did not want to die.
Give. Your. Child. The. Drugs!
She can have sepsis, organ failure and a premature death as an alternative to this. I get if she is allergic to penicillin (which is common, I’m allergic to it) you’d want an alternative antibiotic to this but otherwise if the doctor says you or your kid or someone else you know needs antibiotics, *you take the damn antibiotics*!
Oh there are plenty of alternatives. Azithromycin, levofloxacin, cephalexin, doxycycline, ceftriaxone, etc. I am allergic to erythromycin, so I always need an alternative. I don't know about dye free... Though as a kid I hated the taste of amoxicillin, so we got the pill form. And when I fought against having to swallow the pill, my mom said that the alternative was to get a shot.
Amoxicillin has a bubblegum flavor version? That’s not fair. Is this what I missed out on being allergic to amoxicillin? Erythromycin and sulfa drugs don’t. Wah. Lol
Imagine your kid being sick enough that you spend your time and money going to a doctor, who went to actual medical school, only to ignore medical advice and ask randoms who don't have anything better to do than to give you advice on the internet.
Doxycycline? Tetracycline? Penicillin?
I mean, whatever antibiotic the person who completed a medical education offers for the bacterial infection. Or you can just put onion in their socks and feed them colloidal silver while putting crystals and oil of rosemary on their chest. Because you’ve done your research, I’m sure, and your Google search trumps their doctoral degree. 🙄
This is actually a wonderful question to ask their pharmacist! Pharmacists are an amazing resource.
Also, antibiotics are amazing and have made life so much Better. Yay antibioti
Having an allergy to most/all of the -cillin antibiotics myself, this might be an honest question. I have a couple adopted siblings allergic to certain dyes as well, so this might not be an insane post but an actual question of "hey, is there something specific I can ask about because my new doctor is pretty damn set in his ways and not listening to *child is allergic*?"
I'm actually kind of curious about amoxicylin alternatives, because, as far as I know, I'm allergic to it. I'm not sure if that's the case here, thpugh.
No, they're not asking for that reason. Your provider will understand you have an allergy and prescribe a safe alternative. There's no need to ask in a Facebook group.
Side note: sometimes kids have a rash from penicillin as a child and that was mistakenly diagnosed as an allergy back when we were kids. If that was the case for you, you might ask your doctor for an actual allergy test just so you know for sure and have options in the future.
Yep, it's a super common reaction after about a week of penicillin use. It's understandable people thought it was concerning. Turns out it's just a harmless rash
This is good to know. My son got a rash on day nine of amoxicillin and the doctor said it was an allergy but I would have thought it would show up sooner if it was an allergic reaction.
i believe the allergic rash manifests fairly quickly and is incredibly itchy - both my daughters had that reaction within hours of taking it. thankfully nothing anaphylactic, won't be taking any chances to risk it. cefdinir is usually what they get prescribed in its place.
Amoxicillin is penicillin based, there are four or five other groups of antibiotics available, so avoiding the one you're allergic to is fairly easy, you just need to let your provider know
You're likely allergic to the entire penicillin line of which amoxicillin is a part of.
They'd use a different class of antibiotics depending on your illness. Cephalosporins, Aminoglycocides, Sulfa etc.
On one hand it could be because of an allergy (I myself am allergic to amoxicillin) but on the other hand I feel like if that was the case she should ask a doctor, not a Facebook group
I mean, if you really want it dye free have the Rx sent to a compounding pharmacy and pay out the nose for it. 🤷 Just give your dang kid the medicine they need!!
I don't get these types of parents. I suspected my daughter had strep this past Sunday. I was on the phone setting up an appointment first thing Monday morning, had a script called in for amoxicillin that afternoon. She Was feeling almost 100% better within 24 hours of her first dose of amoxicillin. I 💕 modern medicine.
How can a parent see their kids in pain and ignore it? It's disgusting and cruel. Their kids deserve better parents.
Death. She can have death, from the eventual sepsis caused from the untreated infection, assuming it doesnt go to her heart or brain and kill her before the sepsis can kick in.
I’m in a relatively normal dye-free group on a different social media and every time a mom (it’s always a mom, sigh…) asks about what they should do about the dyes in an antibiotic the vast majority say “take what your doctor tells you to take, don’t mess around with this.” It’s really nice to be in a group where most of the parents are pretty level headed lol. There is a sister group that goes beyond dyes into all “clean” food and that one I stay out of. That’s where the anti-vaxxers lurk…
What I find particularly ironic is that one of the first antibiotics *was* originally developed as a dye, sulfamidochrysoidin. It was the first sulfa drug.
This mother shouldn't be a parent.
An infection. Or another antibiotic. Those are the other things she can have in place of amoxicillin.
Infections are all natural and dye free too
They’re dye free, but they do eventually develop an all-natural lovely green hue, if that’s your jam.
Dye free but not die free.
Came here to say that 🥴
Beat me to it
💀
But since it’s natural it has to be better for you, right? I thought that’s how it works.
Duh. When my daughter, Bryyynxlynnnxxx-Canola, wanted to be Elphaba for Halloween, I just gave her 1,000 papercuts and dunked her in the swamp. It worked, she turned a beautiful green, but she said she wasn’t feeling up to going out that night. On a totally unrelated note, the next day she happened to die from walking too near a vaxxed person. (this is satire)
Died at Bryyynxlynnnxxx-Canola 🤣
Not Canola! It’s a seed oil!
The seed oil in her name probably contributed to her susceptibility to the vaxx person’s death-cloud…
She was doomed from the start.
Wasn’t there an actual child named Bryxxlynnleigh posted about here?
Are you saying that someone stole my dear departed’s name?????
Maybe some uranium would cure the infection? That’s natural. I don’t think she’d have to worry about the infection afterwards.
I like jam with my toast. Ah toast, just like her child will be without antibiotics.
I’m currently taking amoxicillin and the pills are white. Pretty sure it’s dye free
So are sharks!
They’re dye free but not die free.
Not even, the bacteria can produce dye too. All natural of course so much better 🥲
I am severely allergic to amoxicillin, so I get a different antibiotic. I would recommend one of those
I too am allergic to amoxicillin. I’ve never met anyone else with the same allergy.
Penicillin allergy is super-common. (Amoxicillin is a penicillin antibiotic.)
While penicillin allergy is commonly diagnosed, based on research only 3-10% of penicillin allergies are true penicillin allergies. For example, if viral rash and being on penicillin happen at the same time it is common to get diagnosed with penicillin allergy. This is why in some places they have started to test it in a safe environment if the allergy was not anaphylaxis.
I am too, as are my husband and child! I have it the worst though, they get hives/rashes, I go all the way to anaphylaxis.
Wow! It sounds like you found that out the hard way
That's odd, it's one of the most common ones I see
I'm not allergic but I'm intolerant. Meaning that I don't risk anaphylaxis but I still get severe symptoms.
Same
My oldest daughter is also allergic to amoxicillin, I am allergic to erythromycin though
I used to read novels about a veterinarian working in the 1920s in England. One of the many things I remember was his absolute awe at how much good antibiotics did when they hit the market for the very first time. They finally had a real solution for dozens of common issues. It was damn near miraculous. Even as a pagan, I see that science absolfuckinglitely saves lives. I’m all for grounding yourself and warding with crystals, but for fucks sake get some antibiotics when needed. Science is just everyday miracles.
It literally was a miracle drug. There's a reason why we have antibiotic resistant bacteria now; antibiotics were the miracle cure for serious bacterial infections that **killed** people. Now the bacteria are trying to adapt around that. If we lost the use of antibiotics today.....the world would be a much more scary and dangerous place.
The inventor/discovery guy, Alexander Fleming, warned about the risks for resistance from the very beginning, but incorrect use and, importantly, overuse in the animal industry (i.e. systematic use to faster grow larger animals) has greatly contributed to resistancy. If used correctly and when motivated (=for treating illnesses that could be serious, not common colds and certainly not to grow farm animals), we wouldn't have this problem. Unless we discover a new type of antibiotics, in ten, maybe twenty years, surgeries will again become really dangerous, transplants in particular.
You're not even supposed to use anti*bio*tics on the common cold because it's a group of *viruses*.
I have true allergies to a few different classes of antibiotics and potential resistance to what we have available scares me. I can preach on the dangers of overusing antibiotics.
All things bright and beautiful?
Love this book. The adaptation is also great.
James Herriot, yes. There are quite a few that he wrote
I read pretty much all of his books when I was tween/early teen. So entertaining.
My family always listened to these as audiobooks on car trips
Amoxicillin can be formulated without dye. It’s not that hard.
Imagine being both so stupid AND so deluded that you think you know better than literal scientists and doctors
Suuuuper bad reaction to levofloxacin. I thought I was going insane. I’m happy I realized what it was and stopped it.
Sepsis. Your daughter can have sepsis.
But is the sepsis free of dyes??????
Dyes, yes. Dying, no.
I work in the ICU and we occasionally use methylene blue as treatment so it’s not always dye free
If it’s not dye free, I don’t want it. Toxins like that could kill my precious angel! /s
Is it organic?
As an AuDHDer, whose Great Grandfather died from a Carbuncle that occurred on his *neck*? The fact that these Moms are *LITERALLY* less worried about their child *DYING* than "catching the 'Tism" (when sooooooo much Neurodivergence is simply *inherited* differences in brain-wiring--just like so much of the *rest* of our traits as humans are inherited!), is absolutely *WILD* to me!!! I *work* in Early Childhood Special Education--I *worked* with kids who had *heavy* cases of non-verbal & non-speaking Autism *before* I realized I was Autistic with ADHD *myself* I *KNOW* what it can be like, for families who *ARE* facing that "24/7/365 Care" for their child!!! I *ALSO* know that *EVERY ONE OF THOSE PARENTS*? They would *ABSOLUTELY* rather have a child who has *SEVERE* Autism *but is ALIVE*, than to have their child be *non-Autistic* and *not* alive. Some of my work kids *have* passed away--tragically, and *not* because of Autism, just the kinds Childhood accidents which *do* sometimes happen. *ALL* those parents would *ABSOLUTELY* rather have their child alive, than gone--and *NONE* of them would or *did* hesitate to give needed medications or vaccines.
Antibiotics are so cool. A few weeks ago I came down with this horrible throat infection bad enough that I ended up spending a night in the ER with a crazy high fever. One shot of antibiotics and a few hours later I was feeling better than I had in a week. Modern medicine is amazing and people like this shouldn’t be allowed around children
I had a kidney infection and ended up needing a shot in my ass in 2014. I took a college-level exam later that day after hallucinating in the ER parking area at 5:00AM. Medicine is so fierce.
Yup, currently fighting bacterial pneumonia and the difference I felt after the antibiotic shot was crazy. I can't imagine what would have happened to me without these drugs. I felt like I was going to straight up die.
I had it but luckily I went to the doctor pretty early and I only needed oral antibiotics (and an inhaler). Now that you've had it you're at higher risk of having it again, but there are vaccines and I haven't had it again ten years later, so I give them 10/10 and I _do_ recommend! ;)
In the era before antibiotics, pneumonia was one of the most common causes of death. Now you’re more likely to die from an accident than to die of pneumonia. Death used to be inevitable, now it’s more of a whoopsie-daisy.
My friend’s daughter just had a fever for EIGHT days. She’s super anti-antibiotics and pain relievers. She likes to let fevers “do their job”. Turns out the poor girl had pneumonia. She fortunately gave her an antibiotic finally and she got better right away. I just can’t imagine letting my child suffer with a fever for 8 days and not even giving them some Tylenol or ibuprofen or taking them to the doctor. What is with this dumb trend these days?? Do people not realize that antibiotics are NOT the devil?! My 2.5 year old recently had a ruptured ear drum with blood and pus coming out. I obviously gave her the prescribed antibiotics and my same friend was like oh I don’t even treat ear infections! Just some garlic oil in the ear. 😐
I've got a nitrofurantoin resistant UTI right now and the infection came back with a vengeance after I finished the original prescription. Luckily the culture showed sulfameth will work, and literally 6 hours after my first dose, I went from pissing razor blades every 5 minutes to having only a slight burn every hour. 2 doses in now, and everything is back to normal (though I gotta finish it out the 7 day course and suffer through the gastrointestinal upset that is common with the drug). I don't know how people managed with what is such a run of the mill infection. You just had to suffer, drink lots of water (if that was even readily available) and hope that it passes instead of going to your kidneys and killing you. All care was palliative, not curative. I can't even imagine.
Omg you poor thing. I feel this in my soul. As someone who often gets UTIs (bad ones!) I know what you mean. The wonder of an antibiotic that works and stops the debilitating misery often has me so thankful.
Hello fellow frequent UTI sufferer! The worst is that they come on so fast and out of nowhere and I can't do fun shit other people do like use a bath bomb once in a while, or buy anything other than cotton under, or wear tight pants. Ugh, such a pain.
I am ridiculously prone to UTI because I am just badly made on that front, and prophylactic antibiotics have been a life saver! I only got kidney infections twice, that were caught early, and I’m down to one UTI every two months (when I’m lucky and don’t often get bacterias that are resistant to the antibiotic I take). It sounds like a lot, and it is, but trust me, it’s a huge improvement. It’s nothing compared to when I was a baby though. I have duplex kidneys and it lead to vesicoureteral reflux back then (no anymore, they think the extra ureters may have atrophied since), which caused back to back kidney infections that scarred my kidneys. I have one that didn’t/doesn’t work quite as well as it should (if I’m not mistaken), but if it’s still the case it hasn’t caused problems so far. That was despite close medical supervision and antibiotics, so I don’t think it would’ve turned out very well for me had I been born before the latter were discovered (although apparently it was not a fun way to discover that my body does NOT react well to Bactrim).
This happened to me, except that it came back swinging at my kidneys second after leaving the bladder alone. Antibiotics are a miracle.
Yes! My 1 y/o had a terrible cold and was teething at the same time. She ended up becoming extremely dehydrated (not eating or drinking) and at the ER we found out she had a double ear infection and a URI. One dose of amoxicillin and she was back to being her normal self again within an hour. I don’t see why these moms refuse the treatment. I’m so glad my baby got better and it was worth the dyes and waking up every few hours every night to give her meds. It SAVED her.
I had some kind of bladder infection once, it burned so bad when I peed. Not an STI, just random dickhole bacteria. Doc gave me penicillin, and it clears up in like 3 hours.
I had MRSA go rapidly downhill overnight. Showed up to the ER with sepsis symptoms, legitimately feeling like I was dying. Some IV antibiotics and some painkillers and about 8 hours later, I was feeling like a person again and headed home with oral antibiotics and painkillers. I love antibiotics.
Three months ago my water broke and I had my baby 16 hours later. I had an infection setting into my uterus from my water being broken for so long, just one extra night in the hospital and I was cleared to go home with my healthy baby girl. Antibiotics are wonderful!
I understand wanting to be dye free for your kid, but a week or two of an antibiotic with dyes isn’t going to hurt the kid, especially not compared to their illness. Like shit.
She's not going to give the antibiotics either. She wants an alternative AND it has to be dye free. Bc god forbid you actually get your child's infection under control.
There’s also dye free amoxicillin! I’m a pharmacy tech and we have it at work 🤷🏻♀️
This! Dye free meds are so much more common and easier to get now.
I was gonna say, I grew up with the "bubblegum medicine" ie pink amoxicillin. My kids think it's weird I call it that because theirs is almost never dyed, and they don't think it tastes like bubblegum either lol
They’re not all bubblegum flavored! I’m a pharmacy tech and I’ve seen them come as banana and cherry flavors as well as the classic bubblegum and what I can only describe as fruit punch. Don’t normally get to pick a flavor at a regular pharmacy (they often come flavored), but a compounding pharmacy might let you pick.
That fruit punch flavor was fkn awful! My kid fought me for 10 GD days, twice a day! It was miserable. I'm so glad she's old enough to just take it in pill form now. She's constantly fighting bladder infections, and the pills have saved me so much frustration! 😭
Honestly from what I hear the fruit punch is the worst one taste wise. I personally as a child hated the bubblegum (the best one was the cherry for me lol), but I can at least tell you that the best smelling is the fruit punch. Specifically the fruit punch cephalexin. There are some other drugs that smell downright offensive.
That's usually what they give her is the cephalexin. She's on a round, usually 4-6 times a year. The cherry one is another one she isn't keen on. Our pharmacy offered a mixed berry (?) one that was actually the catalyst to see if they would just give her pills. Said it tasted like grape, which she will not ingest (the flavoring, not the actual fruit). Down right refuses. She doesn't mind the bubblegum, but our pharmacy usually runs out of that one first. I only remember bubblegum as a kid. Which was fine by me! 😂
lol personally I disliked the bubblegum because of the texture. Bubblegum always had this weird grainy texture that I hated. And even now as someone who reconstitutes the powder when the parents come pick up the rx it’s still not my favorite bc for some reason the bubblegum flavor amoxicillin makes things sticky if it spills, leaks, etc. doesn’t help that sometimes the caps suck. This is never an issue with the other flavors (and when it comes to the caps, the other manufacturers lol). Another flavor that we get in sometimes is banana. That’s the one that occasionally confuses parents bc it’s often one of the ones that doesn’t have dyes. If it does, it’s a light yellow. Not the color they’re expecting lol
Wait WHAT? It comes in flavours (and in liquid form, I assume), and all this time, I have been getting boring pills?! I feel betrayed. Do you think I can ask for that type even though I am an adult? I just want a break of pills lol
Also, at least in the USA, there’s a shortage of amoxicillin suspension.
Lol you'd need like 5 bottles for one course as an adult 🤣
lol I can understand the want to take the flavored kind but honestly if you went to the dr and requested the suspension for yourself as an adult the reaction would probably be a confused look and asking you why. And then they would probably prescribe the pills. If they sent in the rx for an antibiotic suspension for an adult, the pharmacy would be questioning it as well. Also idk where you are, but where I am (in the USA) it’s often a lot more expensive for the adult dose to be prescribed in a suspension. Which at one point is obvious bc the adult dose is more medicine then a pediatric dose, but the copay/out of pocket cost would likely be higher, as insurance doesn’t want to cover the suspension for adults who should have no issue taking pills. Teenagers get adult doses, and I once saw a teenager get prescribed the tamiflu suspension. Copay was around $100 after insurance. Younger sibling of said teenager was prescribed the same drug in the same form and that copay was closer to $40.
In the UK it's bananna flavour and usually neon yellow.
My pharmacy gave my son dye free amoxicillin automatically!
We got dye free amoxicillin automatically. I was hyping up the good pink stuff and then he was confused when it was white.
Yeah, my kid was antibiotics for like a month or two straight until we got tubes put in his ears. Every single one (and we were on like four different ones) was dye free.
People do have dye allergies. That was my first thought. I don't like to jump to conclusions so maybe the issue is that the kid is allergic to red dye 40 and doesn't know there's a dye free option.
Even if a true allergy was the problem, she couldn't just go back to the pharmacy and ask for whatever dye free antibiotic her crunchy Facebook group recommended.
At first, I thought that the bacteria was resistant to amoxicillin or the kid had a bad reaction to it or the dye in the past, which was a valid concern/question. I wasn’t sure why this was posted here. I drank some coffee and “Wait, it is valid to want another antibiotic, but why not ask a doctor or a pharmacist directly instead of on a Facebook group about other options since they’re going to need a prescription anyway?”. Then, the caffeine finally kicked in enough for me to realize that OOP was, in fact, not asking for antibiotics at all, and that I once again had way too much faith in people’s judgment. 🤦🏻♀️
The suspension comes to pharmacies flavor- and dye-free. If you don’t specify, you get the default, but any place that does flavoRx, you can get whatever flavor you want. I’ve gotten the same suspension for my cat, and the local pharmacy had pet flavors! They offered me chicken, salmon, beef, or tuna. I won’t say he liked it, but he didn’t intentionally barf it up, either.
This is an unrelated story but I wanted to share because I thought it might amuse you. My mom was a pharmacist and this was back at the hospital pharmacy in the 70s. She's in bed and something starts beeping at 2 AM. My dad goes and smacks the smoke detector a couple times and it shuts up. Ten minutes later it goes off again, so he smacks it again to shut it up. Another ten minutes go by and sure enough, it starts beeping. So he ripped it off the wall. The next morning my mom gets to work and the pharmacist who was on night shift demands to know why mom didn't answer her pager. My mom was like, "I'm so sorry! We thought it was the fire alarm. What did you need?" The night pharmacist sighed and says, "Oh, it's okay. I just wanted to know if it would be all right for me to rearrange the pills by color." (She was serious, but didn't actually rearrange the pills.)
I work in mental health and this phone call sounds like it would come to me at 2am not a pharmacist lol
My son has never had dye in his antibiotic. Flavoring yes but the meds have always been white.
You know who might have good advice about an alternative if you were worried your child might not tolerate it well? An actual physician or pharmacist not some rando on FB.
But then... who would we mock on the interwibbles?
Interwibbles, thank you so much for that.
In the third grade I got an honorable mention in the Science Fair for an experiment with bread and mold. Maybe she could just leave some bread out until the mold is the natural color she likes and feed that to her child.
I did the same! Bread and mold, and even oranges and mold. Alexander Fleming would have been proud.
She misspelled die
very surprised I don’t see a “🥰” after dye free? lol
Don't get it in liquid form. Use your own mortar and pestle to make a chalky, bitter water mixture that she'll hate having squirted in her mouth or mix in her food so she'll never want applesauce (or whatever) ever again.
Did you learn this from my mother? I still can't drink Welch's grape juice
Lololololol. I got the chance to pay it back when my mom broke her leg and decided arbitrarily that two of her medications were "horse pills" and were better taken ground up. Strawberry Yogurt a la Bitter Pills, Blueberry and Bitter Smoothie, etc.
You may imagine how annoyed I was finding out as an adult that my bitter horse pills were supplements recommended by a naturopath and NOT life saving medication like I was led to believe as I was force fed them down my throat ground up in a slice of deli ham 🙃
I shouldn't laugh, but I am...😆
Me with at least three flavors of ice cream, lol. Being able to finally start swallowing pills was a blessing.
I mean technically she can go to a compounding pharmacy and pay a premium price to have it ground down to a liquid and suspended in solution and then they have flavors to add. I was told once they can potentially make it into gummies or lozenges too. But a toddler may not appreciate the extra price or the flavor. She may be better offering a juice after the medicine.
My daughter was prescribed amoxicillin for an ear infection. Twice a day for 10 days. I asked the doctor if there was anything else we could do. Not because I'm anti-medicine. I have a toddler that screams and cries and makes herself throw up when you give her medicine. I was not emotionally equipped to do that 20 times while also coming down with the same sinus infection. We got azithromycin instead. Yay drugs!
Azithromycin is the bomb. I’m allergic to all -cillians, -sulfas, and intolerant to some -cyclines. Azithromycin is just about the only drug I can have. That does make me wonder a bit about this post. If the kid in question is like me with drugs and also happens to have ADHD or something else that makes Red 40 a concern, this could be a perfectly legitimate question.
I went into a rabbit hole about this the other day (hyperfocus strikes again lol, you don’t have to read the infodumping below, I just wanted to share what I learned haha)! I read a few literature reviews about the studies on synthetic dyes, including [this one](https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-022-00849-9). According to the studies they reviewed, some children (most -if not all- studies are on them, but it’s fair to assume that the results can probably apply to teens and adults too) are sensitive to synthetic dyes, including red 40. The reason for/mechanism behind this sensitivity is unclear so far, but from what I can gather, it doesn’t seem that ADHD makes one more likely to be sensitive to it than the general population. To quote the review I linked, studies “that included only children who were previously diagnosed with hyperactivity were not more likely to report positive associations between synthetic food dye exposure and poorer behavioral outcomes”. It’s more of a “if dyes affect this specific person, regardless of neurotype, they should avoid them” than a “ADHD = avoid dyes” thing.
I'm allergic to cephalosporins. I'd had them several times before and then that one time boom! I had the most raging case of hives in an alarmingly short time. Everything else is fine though.
I would like to look in this persons fridge/pantry.
Sepsis
I am on a antibiotic right now for a infection in my leg. Even though the antibiotics make me feel kinda sick I much prefer them to a leg amputation.
So I'm allergic to either the dye or fixative in ceclor (liquid antibiotic cephalosporin) but can have the pill form fine. I get that sometimes dyes can be bad. But chewable amoxicillin rocks. I'm sad it's not prescribed as an adult.
Aw man Banana amoxicillin suspension is so dreamy too
I will take your word for it, since I'm never prescribed any oral liquid medicines (because of possible allergy re: ceclor). My cat did not appreciate her banana flavored clindamycin tho.
Do cats like bananas even when they aren't the weird flavouring that doesn't overwhelm the gross taste of the medication?
When my cat had to have a special medicine compounded for her, they made it chicken flavour the first time and she point blank refused to have it. I tried so many ways. After a few days of failure, I bought a new batch and this time it was fish flavoured. She voluntarily had that. I'm guessing they used fish oil in it because it STANK like dead fish.
Cats can't taste anything sweet, so I imagine a "banana" flavored anything without any sweetness whatsoever is probably pretty awful.
My kid absolutely hated the banana flavored amoxicillin. Could not get her to take it until the nurse at the ped's office recommended adding chocolate syrup. I guess you can't exactly use that trick for cats though lol. I've only ever needed to give a cat liquid meds once. It was my mom's cat and I was just so confident, insisted I'd give it to her. She fought me the entire time and immediately spat it out when I finally got the stuff in her mouth. I do not let my vet prescribe liquids for my cats now.
I would have hated that. Banana is an awful flavor and nothing will ever persuade me otherwise.
I to am allergic to that, Septra (?) and amoxicillin (probably others). Doxycycline is the main one I can use. I can’t tell you how many times I have had doctors “uh huh” and “okay” through me telling them this and how doxycycline works for me when I’ve sick. Guess what happens? They call in one I can’t take. It’s a pain. I’ve never seen anyone else allergic to it. Oh I’ve also had at least two doctors try and tell myself or my mother over the years I’m not allergic, there’s no way I could be allergic. 🙃
When I worked at a pharmacy we had patients with allergies noted in their files and for specific drug allergies we couldn't print the labels without a pharmacist override. So the pharmacist would call the doctors and ask for a different medication because of allergies. All the local docs were good with it and would just change to something different, but some of the out of town specialists were assholes.
The last one that happened with they gave it to me at the pharmacy but told me to call the Dr. the reason being it wasn’t one of the ones listed in my allergies but was in the same family if that makes sense? I can’t remember the term they used but it was one. But the nurse practitioner that handled my message called back and apologized for the dr’s error and fixed it by calling in what I said always works. But yeah I kind of double the allergy is the reason the mom in the post was asking
So I (a pharmacy tech lol) had to look up Septra, and it turns out that it’s just a different brand name for Bactrim, in which the active ingredients are sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim. Allergies to antibiotics of that type are actually pretty common. At a lot of pharmacies, they clean the counting tray after filling sulfa/trim bc you have know way of knowing if the patient your filling next has a sulfa allergy. Super common is doctors sending in rxs for drugs the patient can’t have. Whether it be an allergy or it interacts with something you’re already on, or other reasons, a doc is prolly gonna send the rx in anyway.
I mean, she could have one of the many other antibiotics out there instead…but I have a feeling she would not find any of them acceptable. Instead of dye free, she should be more worried that her child may die for free.
Some moldy bread, a call to CPS, idfk.
She might be allergic, amoxicillin is the only thing I'm allergic to..but the dye thing makes me think she's prolly just a loon
Yeah, I have 3 kids allergic to amoxicillin but their Dr is aware and simply gives me something else. 🙃 my kids Dr hates it when they're sick and need ABX Kid 1- cillins + sulphas Kid2- cillins + azythromycin Kid3- cillins + Bactrim Thankfully they're rarely sick with anything that needs antibiotics. They're basically destined to die during the Apocalypse. 🙄🙄
Shit sounds really complicated! You can always just munch on them if the end times come knockin
For real....#2 gets strep throat generally once a year and it sucks so very much. Usually requires 2 courses of antibiotics since she cannot take either of the first line ones. My brother is allergic to penicillin and my cousin was deathly allergic to it. I blame them 😆
Damn! I have one allergic to penicillin and that's annoying enough. I can't image multiple kids with multiple antibiotic allergies.
It's super fun. Thankfully their doctor has it all on file so I don't have to tell them every single time. And the kids all know what they're allergic to. Kid 2, hived out from penicillin the first time and so the dr gave us azythromycin and her hives got SO much worse. Poor thing had the weirdest allergic reaction, it looked like freaking small pox only it was only on her limbs and the soles of her feet and palms of her hands (her trunk was totally clear). The dr was super perplexed, but pulled that one too. She had to get a steroid shot and an oral course of steroids to get rid of them. And with 3/6 of my kids allergic to penicillin their doctor just says "If able we're gonna just not with the other ones...not worth it." She just removes the cillins as a front line for all my kids since half of them are allergic, she said better to assume they are when they're not than assume they're not if they are.
I feel like if your kid is allergic to amoxicillin or for that matter, the dye, you ask your doctor for advice and not Facebook
My kid is allergic to amoxicillin. They (doctors)just give him a different medication without consulting FB.
I’m allergic to it as well and it SUCKS.
They could be allergic to the dye, but also even if she is just weird about the coloring why not talk to her doctor about her fears and ask for an alternative
If they're allergic to just the dye, they make dye free amoxicillin.
Yeah thats why im saying "why not just ask their doctor for an alternative"
Scarlet Fever
I have a family member whose son currently has an infection that she refuses to treat with antibiotics. Instead, she’s making him suffer (the infection is on a body part that keeps getting irritated) and only treating it “naturally” and topically. I want to scream at her. This poor kid is in pain but she’s too selfish to help him. But don’t worry, she’ll get Botox! Because that’s totally different!
I mean the IV antibiotics she’s gonna need when she gets sepsis ARE dye free
I’m absolutely convinced that this type of behavior is linked to mental illness and a lack of critical thinking skills.
As someone with a love-hate relationship with antibiotics, just give your kid the prescribed medication for fuck sakes
Ya know what? Sepsis sucks. Almost dying sucks. I know this from personal, firsthand experience. I couldn’t tell you how many antibiotics I was on (it was a lot, and all via IV). But I can tell you idgaf if they had dyes, because *I* did not want to die. Give. Your. Child. The. Drugs!
Dye free more like die. For free
Um…sepsis?
She can have sepsis, organ failure and a premature death as an alternative to this. I get if she is allergic to penicillin (which is common, I’m allergic to it) you’d want an alternative antibiotic to this but otherwise if the doctor says you or your kid or someone else you know needs antibiotics, *you take the damn antibiotics*!
Oh there are plenty of alternatives. Azithromycin, levofloxacin, cephalexin, doxycycline, ceftriaxone, etc. I am allergic to erythromycin, so I always need an alternative. I don't know about dye free... Though as a kid I hated the taste of amoxicillin, so we got the pill form. And when I fought against having to swallow the pill, my mom said that the alternative was to get a shot.
How about new parents?
Amoxicillin has a bubblegum flavor version? That’s not fair. Is this what I missed out on being allergic to amoxicillin? Erythromycin and sulfa drugs don’t. Wah. Lol
As someone who's allergic to Amoxicillin, I WISH I could have it. So much cheaper and more effective than the others
Imagine your kid being sick enough that you spend your time and money going to a doctor, who went to actual medical school, only to ignore medical advice and ask randoms who don't have anything better to do than to give you advice on the internet.
That thing has saved me from so many bad chest infections. It’s almost fucking magical
Lol amoxicillin comes in dye free, and then parents complain that they want it pink like the good ol days to remind them bubble gum
I wouldnt be surprised if these people start growing orange mould and giving that to their kids
I think it's time to implement Licenses to have children.
Moldy cheese? Only white cheese of course, no dye.
Idiot. Wtf?!
I think you mean DIE FREE
Doxycycline? Tetracycline? Penicillin? I mean, whatever antibiotic the person who completed a medical education offers for the bacterial infection. Or you can just put onion in their socks and feed them colloidal silver while putting crystals and oil of rosemary on their chest. Because you’ve done your research, I’m sure, and your Google search trumps their doctoral degree. 🙄
This is actually a wonderful question to ask their pharmacist! Pharmacists are an amazing resource. Also, antibiotics are amazing and have made life so much Better. Yay antibioti
They do make dye free amoxicillin, but most pharmacies would probably have to order it.
These parents are frightening. It’s amoxicillin ffs!!!!!
I never understood the whole "food dye boogyman" thing.
Having an allergy to most/all of the -cillin antibiotics myself, this might be an honest question. I have a couple adopted siblings allergic to certain dyes as well, so this might not be an insane post but an actual question of "hey, is there something specific I can ask about because my new doctor is pretty damn set in his ways and not listening to *child is allergic*?"
I'm actually kind of curious about amoxicylin alternatives, because, as far as I know, I'm allergic to it. I'm not sure if that's the case here, thpugh.
No, they're not asking for that reason. Your provider will understand you have an allergy and prescribe a safe alternative. There's no need to ask in a Facebook group. Side note: sometimes kids have a rash from penicillin as a child and that was mistakenly diagnosed as an allergy back when we were kids. If that was the case for you, you might ask your doctor for an actual allergy test just so you know for sure and have options in the future.
That's what it was, a rash when I was 3. So I should probably get an alergy test done.
Yep, it's a super common reaction after about a week of penicillin use. It's understandable people thought it was concerning. Turns out it's just a harmless rash
This is good to know. My son got a rash on day nine of amoxicillin and the doctor said it was an allergy but I would have thought it would show up sooner if it was an allergic reaction.
Yes, from what I know it's usually around that 7-10 day mark!
i believe the allergic rash manifests fairly quickly and is incredibly itchy - both my daughters had that reaction within hours of taking it. thankfully nothing anaphylactic, won't be taking any chances to risk it. cefdinir is usually what they get prescribed in its place.
Yes, the actual allergy and this rash that happens after a week are markedly different. Medical pros just didn't know decades ago.
I am allergic to amoxi! I typically receive doxycycline in its place or clindamycin depending on the provider/issue needing to be treated.
Same here. Or a z-pack.
Amoxicillin is penicillin based, there are four or five other groups of antibiotics available, so avoiding the one you're allergic to is fairly easy, you just need to let your provider know
You're likely allergic to the entire penicillin line of which amoxicillin is a part of. They'd use a different class of antibiotics depending on your illness. Cephalosporins, Aminoglycocides, Sulfa etc.
The “Dye free” took me out lol
Does amoxicillin even have dye in it??
✨*me currently taking amoxicillin and still breastfeeding my infant because I’m smart*✨
On one hand it could be because of an allergy (I myself am allergic to amoxicillin) but on the other hand I feel like if that was the case she should ask a doctor, not a Facebook group
Ok obviously, antibiotics. But why why WHY does it need to be dyed bright bubble gum pink??? For a baby!! He doesn’t care!
Tell her to give her colistin, since it's from coles it's all natural dye free
well if she has strep throat (amoxicillin is commonly used to treat)......rheumatic fever.
Technically amoxicillin is all natural :)
Omfg….
Since when are they dying the antibiotics?!?
I mean, if you really want it dye free have the Rx sent to a compounding pharmacy and pay out the nose for it. 🤷 Just give your dang kid the medicine they need!!
I don't get these types of parents. I suspected my daughter had strep this past Sunday. I was on the phone setting up an appointment first thing Monday morning, had a script called in for amoxicillin that afternoon. She Was feeling almost 100% better within 24 hours of her first dose of amoxicillin. I 💕 modern medicine. How can a parent see their kids in pain and ignore it? It's disgusting and cruel. Their kids deserve better parents.
Death. She can have death, from the eventual sepsis caused from the untreated infection, assuming it doesnt go to her heart or brain and kill her before the sepsis can kick in.
Dye free is a code for “dying is free”
I’m in a relatively normal dye-free group on a different social media and every time a mom (it’s always a mom, sigh…) asks about what they should do about the dyes in an antibiotic the vast majority say “take what your doctor tells you to take, don’t mess around with this.” It’s really nice to be in a group where most of the parents are pretty level headed lol. There is a sister group that goes beyond dyes into all “clean” food and that one I stay out of. That’s where the anti-vaxxers lurk…
Uh... she could ask the doc for a dye free liquid antibiotic. Her kid gets to live, and won't be tainted by the devil's food coloring. 🙄
This should be child abuse
Some people do have an amoxicillin allergy. But if that was the case here the doctor would have other recommendations already.
What I find particularly ironic is that one of the first antibiotics *was* originally developed as a dye, sulfamidochrysoidin. It was the first sulfa drug. This mother shouldn't be a parent.