Antibiotic & Removal of kids Question
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:46 pm
Hi, I'm new to this site and not sure how it works but I'm trying to find out if a child misses 2 days of antibiotics for a UTI does that give the state a reason to think their safety is in danger and remove them? My girls wanted to stay for a few nights at a place they spend a lot of time at. I didn't have my daughter's medicine for her urinary tract infection with me but the mother of the place they wanted to stay at said she could come out and get it because I didn't have any money for gas for a couple days. She never came out but gave my daughter cranberry juice. the prescription was filled 3/18, she missed two days on the 21st & 22nd and it was supposed to be taken for 10 days. It was liquid antibiotics and a major struggle to get her to take it because it tasted bad, she would spit it out and when I mixed it with something she may have dumped it out. I was going to get her pills if she still had symptoms but kept saying she didn't, she has no previous hx of bladder infections and no medical problems. The mother ended up making a report about it & they removed my girls on 4/1, Friday at 6:30 pm and the shelter hearing was Tuesday 4/5 when I found out this information. My daughter did end up having to go into the dr on Sunday evening for tx of the bladder inf which I would have taken her to as well if she was with me. I felt terrible about her not getting the antibiotics and shouldn't have let her stay in hindsight but I want to know if that condition is significant enough to justify removing them. Thank you for any advice on this.