Valley...,
Has been evaluated By a Infectious Disease Specialist??
Has the term "Broad Spectrum " treatment been used??
Allergies??
Has the term First line of Antibiotics or others been used??
How long has he had this ?? Any other organ dysfunction or infection spread??
If he cant take oral.. had he ever been on a Central Line or shunt for the IV's(antibiotic) ...
Is this the only case in your community ??
Pm with the town you live in and if you can travel 5, 10 or 50 miles for a visit with a specialist and I will track one down for you if you want to talk to some one...
Pediatrics is an interesting field but I can tell you this much that if a "child " is not responding to antibiotics , it can be a number of things such as rate of infection, a child's biochemical balance , and what else he or she has been exposed too..Drug companies do not test antibiotics on children so often it is up to the doctors to regulate and adjust accordingly , so keep that in mind and consulting doctors ( or getting different opinions when conditions are not improving is not an infringement but A RIGHT) to take a different approach can be helpful( just stay away from getting opinions from physicians who are in "practice " together)...
Resistant strains pop up when patients do not take the full prescribed treatment ( all the drugs , full course of treatment) .. It happens sometimes because people feel better but don't realize it took time for the body to become vulnerable to a contagion and even longer for it to become infectious ... Antibiotics take time and a regulated dosage to work.. And even if the drugs do clear up the "bugs", your immune system will take up to at least a week with proper rest , nutrition and hydration to heal ( so you are STILL vulnerable for reinfection)..
Viruses and Bacteria often have the very thing that makes us human , DNA .. They adapt to our "biological inner security system" and reproduce the next generation to be immune to what antibodies( Hunter Killer Cells in simple terms) our biological defenses produce..so it is on to the next drug ..and the next all the while some are not following the treatment plan .. It can stay undetected or a person can become a carrier and the next person they infect will not respond to a certain drug or plan of treatment...
and with that I ask ... Have you found out how, he may have come in contact with this contagion? And if so how was the person or child treated and with what?? If there is some improvement with the contagious patient maybe you should consult with their physician... ( I am sorry if you have said you have or didn't know this is the first I have read of this) ..
I am sending you my email address in a pm .. or you can post it here...
