Skipping antibiotics once(Baby fell asleep)?

[tchan03]

HI I have a question , my baby (13 months old) is on the course of completing 1 week of antibiotics. She had throat infection, that's why Dr gave prescription of antibiotics since last Tues. She's now 90% recovered

It's 9 pm ET here , she just had milk but felt asleep right away, she's supposed to take another dose of antibiotics (3 times a day) before sleeping
Since she already fell asleep, we just put her into bed.
If she did not wake up at all, she gonna sleep thru the night, in other words , she will end up skipping antibiotics....

(Q1) if she sorta half-wake up before midnight, typically we try to make her sleep right back (when she is not sick), but now she's 90% recovered from sickness, for the sake of completing full cycle of antibiotics, should we fed her antibiotics right away?

If we do feed ,there will be a risk that she will be very awake after antibiotics, not gonna sleep till late night like 1 am. (My baby normally is a VERY active girl ,esp at night.)

(Q2) next time this thing happen, should we have fed her antibiotics befpre she felt asleep too deeply?

Thx
TC

 

[PADISFAM]

you will need to complete the whole course. If she wakes up tonight I would try & get it into her......typically the pharmacists just tell you to take the missed dose as soon as you 'remember' but don't double up the dose.

How many doses does she have left? If she only has the one dose left-I would just wait until tomorrow morning. If she has a whole days worth tomorrow (3 doses) Wednesday morning would finish her dose up.

 

[tchan03]

not much left. In fact she woke up shortly i posted, and we fed her antibiotics....now sleep again

 

[manning]

That's how bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics. Treatment has to be completed. If you don't kill all of the infection what is left will grow an immunity to the antibiotics.

 

[disney1990]

Heck, when my daughters were this age, I could put the antibiotics in a dropper and put it in their mouths when they were asleep. They just sucked it down like it was a bottle and never woke up.