Question about kids and boils.

[aspie*mum]

I have already had the child in question at the doctor - TWICE.  I am taking her again tomrrow so not after medical advice.  I'm just not convinced she's getting the best care and have no experience with "boils" and their treatment so wondering if others do.  Child will be 7 in May.

Child appeared to have a mosquito/insect bite on her leg (inner knee area) on Thursday evening.  It gradually got larger and larger (but didn't itch).  Sunday morning I had decided it defiantly was NOT a mosquito bite so took her to the doctor at lunch time.  My GP doesn't work Sunday's so saw someone else ($83.00) at our clinic.  Doctor S pretty much implied I was being a paranoid, over reacting mother, despite me pointing out over and over that it wasn't itching and a mosquito bite wouldn't grow that much over 4 days (was over the size of a 50cent piece). She prescribed a steroid cream and said it would be gone by morning.

When I bathed the little one (later than usual) at 7.30 I was horrified to see it was now even bigger and pussy - it looked like a boil!  AND there was a 2nd one on her other knee.  The GP clinic we go to was closed by the time I got her out of the bath and dressed (8pm) so I went to a late night bulk billing clinic where Doctor R told me it was boils, and she needed antibiotics by mouth and an antibiotic cream!  

Then we got home about 9.30pm and she promptly got a blood nose which bled for over half and hour.  Nothing to do with the boils, but made it a VERY late night.

But TODAY, she has the 2 boils from Sunday, plus another 4 developing.  I would have thought that with the antibiotics she would have not started to develop more of them?

I am taking her to my GP first thing tomorrow (Tuesday morning), because I'm just not convinced she's getting the right treatment?

Any experience?

Should she keep getting boils when she's started her treatment?  She is otherwise a very healthy little girl.

I am treating the boils exactly as suggested EXCEPT I can't clean them with an antibacterial wash as my daughter is allergic.

[i-once-was-bump]

I started off having boils very infrequently as a child but went on to full blown hidradenitis suppurativa and from the age of 17 to 20 my GP did not take it seriously (he also failed to realise I had SLE).

I also had desensitising injections for allergies for 3 years when a lot younger so all up I would stay on this to make sure nothing develops health wise and that the boils are not a symptom of something far more serious.

I was taking antibiotics for 8 or 9 months at a time to try and control the problem but surgery was the only real help so I can't stress how important it is to take boils seriously.

[aspie*mum]

i-once-was-bump - OMG that is a hideous story!!!  You poor thing!!!!  I will defiantly speak to the RCH (Royal Children's Hospital) next week as well as her paediatrician next time we go (end of March I think) to ensure it's not an ongoing issue.

Kopenhagen - Sorry, I missed your question before.  Yes, she has had blood noses before.  She tends to get them in the hot weather occasionally.  Also she is on a nasal spray (for her allergies) at the moment and it can be a side effect of them, so possibly related to that ATM as well.

[azureline**]

i-once-was-bump - OMG that is a hideous story!!!  You poor thing!!!!  I will defiantly speak to the RCH (Royal Children's Hospital) next week as well as her paediatrician next time we go (end of March I think) to ensure it's not an ongoing issue.

Kopenhagen - Sorry, I missed your question before.  Yes, she has had blood noses before.  She tends to get them in the hot weather occasionally.  Also she is on a nasal spray (for her allergies) at the moment and it can be a side effect of them, so possibly related to that ATM as well.

Poor little girl, hope she gets some relief from them, I remember the pain.

BTW, it is definitely.......

[aspie*mum]

Yes, it sure is azureline.

Damn auto correct fail.

[cherples]

Yes, it sure is azureline.

Damn auto correct fail.

unless they don't take you seriously then you can argue defiantly  :^O

[aspie*mum]

I can definitely argue defiantly!

[i-once-was-bump]

My mother still says that she should have been far more forceful with the doctors when I was a child but back then (I'm 56 now) she said they were like gods and you never questioned them even if she was really unhappy with the treatment I was receiving and also she said she was expected to take us to a Catholic doctor as the church expected that but she now doesn't hold the Catholic Church is such high esteem either. Also with having produced a doctor or two she says she now realises that  a lot of them are bogans :^O