My DD has been prescribed antibiotics 4 times since Christmas. The only time where a test was taken was last time, where it was a suspected urine infection. The test result took 5 days but the antibiotics were still prescribed. The test came back negative.
I am not best pleased that DD has been given so many courses of antibiotics in such a short time. I am of the opinion that antibiotics kill everything and thus eases the way for new infections and also I am worried about DD developing resistance to antibiotics.
My question is: Why do doctors never/rarely take any tests to decide if an infection is viral or bacterial? I am from Denmark where it is unheard of to give antibiotics without a positive test result. It is often a simple blood test taken from a drop of blood from a finger and result is available in a few minutes. It can also be a urine sample or a more complicated test but most often the test doesn't even need to be sent to a lab.
Why do the NHS not have a similar system? It's not like Denmark is a country that is considered more advanced than England.
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Why do doctors never take test to check if it is viral or bacterial
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misscph1973 · 07/05/2013 11:30
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