Comments on: Sabbatical, Day 86: Scarlet Fever http://bigcircumstance.com/2009/04/27/sabbatical-day-86-scarlet-fever/ Dave Faulkner. Husband. Dad. Methodist minister. Pseudo-geek. Music lover. Tue, 29 May 2012 04:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dave Faulkner http://bigcircumstance.com/2009/04/27/sabbatical-day-86-scarlet-fever/#comment-1890 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:14:51 +0000 http://bigcircumstance.com/?p=2109#comment-1890 Vashti,

Welcome to this blog and thank you for your comment. To answer you as best I can:

They didn’t at the general practitioner’s yesterday morning. He told us what symptoms to look out for, and to get the penicillin prescription as soon as possible if they showed, so that’s what I did last night and Mark is now on it. From our reading of literature from the British Medical Association’s family books and checking reputable websites, we understand the standard treatment is ten days of antibiotics. Our obvious query would be that the prescription turned out only to be for five days, so we’ll ring the doctor if necessary.

]]> By: Vashti Winterburg http://bigcircumstance.com/2009/04/27/sabbatical-day-86-scarlet-fever/#comment-1889 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:11:32 +0000 http://bigcircumstance.com/?p=2109#comment-1889 What? They don’t do throat cultures in the UK? Scarlet fever is caused by a strep infection which can turn nasty if untreated.

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