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Originally Posted by 4X4
I think I might reserve judgement, after reading the whole article. The grandfather says that the child was only sick for 4 days, and that the mother thought it was the flu. If that is true, it casts it in a different light. Kid is sick, with what looks like a common illness, she put him to bed for a few days, and bought some natural remedies to hopefully speed the recovery.
Personally, I have a big debate in my head every time my kid is sick. Am I wasting everyone's time by taking her to the doctor when she appears to have a cold? I don't want to sit in a waiting room for two hours to be told by the doctor that she needs rest. On the other hand, I'm not a doctor. I don't know what he sees when he sticks the tongue depressor in her mouth. So is it prudent to take her to the doctor?
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Perhaps you don't take your daughter to the doctor right away but you likely give her medicine to control things like a fever or to help with the pain.
I also am not sure that I would trust the grandfather story that much and doubt it was normal flu like symptoms and then death.
I don't want to use my recent experience with strep to say the child's symptoms would be exactly the same but if they were anything close to what I experienced (which seems normal talking to others/reading on the internet) there was likely a lot of indicators that more than bedrest and bogus herbs should be used.