Why is throat infection not curing without taking antibiotics ?

@subi21 (72)
India
May 4, 2009 6:48am CST
Whenever my child gets throat infection, he will be having high temperature. And the doctor prescribes antibiotics and he will be ok. Is it good for a 5 yr old kid to take antibiotics all the time whenevr he gets throat infection. Will it affect his immunity? What is your opinion. Please share.
4 responses
@tuyakiki (3016)
• India
4 May 09
Consult a good doctor first. Those doses should be very light,as he is just a small kid.Antibiotics do effect all of us.. It has plenty of side effects.It even affect the adults. So,those doses should be prescribed cautiously. Try to treat your kid,with honey and Balsam leaf.Take a teaspoonful of honey and one balsam leave,and give it to your kid,early in the morning in empty stomach. it will take time,but he will get better.
@subi21 (72)
• India
7 May 09
Thank you for the valuable information. I have aslo heard that honey is good for health. thank you. Happy my lotting
@zoey7879 (3092)
• Quincy, Illinois
4 May 09
To say "All the time whenever he gets throat infection"... How often does he get them? Giving small children the same antibiotic repetitively isn't healthy for them, especially if the family already has a history of related allergies., such as penicillin. Without much more information I cant really say anything more about it, sorry.
@subi21 (72)
• India
7 May 09
Thank you for your response. It is like he gets the infection once in every 3 months. But now it seems lesser, May be because he is havibng vacation and nt mingling with other children at school.
• Southend-On-Sea, England
4 May 09
It might be because the throat infections are viral, and not bacterial? Antibiotics won't work on viral infections. It's a shame your doctor doesn't seem to know this, as I thought it was pretty common knowledge.
@lumenmom (1986)
• United States
4 May 09
I don't think it is good to give antibiotics too often but if the doctor is precsribing them then hopefully he is doing it because the child absolutely needs them. You might want to ask the doctor if that is the only remedy or is there soemthing else you can try. I did that one time with my daughter and he did give me something I could try at home with the recommendation to come back if it did not work. It did work and we were able to avoid antibiotics that time. After the antibiotic treatment you could then follow up with probiotics to help replenish the good bacteria that was lost, as the antibiotics kill off the bad as well as the good flora.