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Suggest Treatment For Kidney Infection
My seven year old grand daughter has been running a high temperature for five days. She has a knot below her knee and the doctor say it is cellulitis. An ER person wrapped it with an ace bandage and put a half cast that is to be removed at night. She was prescribed bactrium antibiotics for a kidney infection. Does this seem like an accurate diagnosis?
Mon, 25 May 2015
Hello,
I had gone through your question carefully and i can understand your concern very well for your grand daughter.
I would like to probe you few questions like is there any signs of inflammation like redness, swelling, etc., is it associated with pain or not, whether any kind of discharge from that knot or not. If you can upload an image of that knot, then it will be greater helpful for me to give you perfect suggestions to you. You can upload an image and come back to me directly anytime, i will be happy to guide you further.
I would suggest you to do some blood examinations like CBC with ESR, creatinine and blood sugar. As there is high grade fever for last five days, antibiotics are must for empirical treatment and along with that paracetamol should also be taken to take care of fever.
Hope this will help you and come back to me with the image and reports, so that i can guide you fully in right direction.
I had gone through your question carefully and i can understand your concern very well for your grand daughter.
I would like to probe you few questions like is there any signs of inflammation like redness, swelling, etc., is it associated with pain or not, whether any kind of discharge from that knot or not. If you can upload an image of that knot, then it will be greater helpful for me to give you perfect suggestions to you. You can upload an image and come back to me directly anytime, i will be happy to guide you further.
I would suggest you to do some blood examinations like CBC with ESR, creatinine and blood sugar. As there is high grade fever for last five days, antibiotics are must for empirical treatment and along with that paracetamol should also be taken to take care of fever.
Hope this will help you and come back to me with the image and reports, so that i can guide you fully in right direction.
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