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annuinSo while they ruled out strep throat for 
PreZ via a breath test, it's now down to tonsillitis or mono (infectious mononucleosis). Yes, "kissing disease". I doubt the latter is a real possibility, but they took blood to test and make sure.
If it is mono, his doctor needs to be bitchslapped, because both medications that the doc gave him are recommended against for mono sufferers (wikipedia is a wonderful thing), as amoxycillin can cause a rash in 90% of mono patients (which then commonly gets diagnosed as an allergic reaction to penicillin), and the prednisone is a corticosteroid that has been shown to potentially increase the risk of the Epstein-Barr virus (which causes mono) causing lymphomas in later years. But I guess they'd file that crap under acceptable risk or something.
But we'll see how it goes. Hopefully the blood test results will be back soon, and turn out negative for mono. At least tonsillitis is much easier to treat and definitely doesn't last as long as mono does, which is basically something that can last for weeks and has no real cure but time.
Hopefully he'll feel better tomorrow, so he can accompany me to the midwife, it's always more fun with company.
PreZ via a breath test, it's now down to tonsillitis or mono (infectious mononucleosis). Yes, "kissing disease". I doubt the latter is a real possibility, but they took blood to test and make sure.If it is mono, his doctor needs to be bitchslapped, because both medications that the doc gave him are recommended against for mono sufferers (wikipedia is a wonderful thing), as amoxycillin can cause a rash in 90% of mono patients (which then commonly gets diagnosed as an allergic reaction to penicillin), and the prednisone is a corticosteroid that has been shown to potentially increase the risk of the Epstein-Barr virus (which causes mono) causing lymphomas in later years. But I guess they'd file that crap under acceptable risk or something.
But we'll see how it goes. Hopefully the blood test results will be back soon, and turn out negative for mono. At least tonsillitis is much easier to treat and definitely doesn't last as long as mono does, which is basically something that can last for weeks and has no real cure but time.
Hopefully he'll feel better tomorrow, so he can accompany me to the midwife, it's always more fun with company.
