This isn't a really a first aid question anymore in that it's about something that happened probably around 16 years ago, but I'm trying to make sense of something I remember from when I was little, and I need some medical information that I haven't been able to find anywhere because I don't know enough about what to look for, and I'm hoping someone here will know.
I don't really know how to phrase this even... I remember when I was about 3 or 4 having my parents put some sort of medicine, um, down there, it had to go in, I think it was in a sort of a syringe or something. I remember being scared, and that it hurt, only a lot of it I don't remember very clearly and I think I need to understand what really happened and why. Anyway it doesn't make sense to me why I would have had to have medication that way because everything I've been able to find that could happen in a little kid that could be treated that way could also be treated with various oral medications that I would think would be the treatment of choice for young kids. So I guess what I want to know is if there's anything that would be treated that way for a girl that age (or that would have been ~16 years ago).
Sorry for posting this here, it probably doesn't really belong, and it's probably just something stupid and obvious anyway, but I need some medical information to make sense of it, and I can't talk to anyone about it, so I don't know where else to go.
The only thing that comes to mind right away is a yeast infection. They can sometimes be treated by oral antibiotics, but often times local antibiotics work better.
A yeast infection seems like something only an older girl would get, but young girls can get them do because of hygiene issues, or doing something like wearing a wet bathing suit for several hours.
Becuase it happened when you were about 4 I'm sure it would be scarier and hurt more in your 4 year old mind then the same thing would at your age now.
I hope this helps.
AD
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And somebody told me you were doing okay,
Somehow I guess they were wrong.
Wouldn't they at least try oral antibiotics first for a little kid? What I remember is being held down on the bathroom floor screaming and crying while someone stuck something in me, and that seems like something they'd want to avoid, only my mom told me the only times I had antibiotics when I was little was for ear infections so I don't think they even tried with oral antibiotics, which doesn't make sense to me.
The more often a bacteria is exposed to antibiotics, the more likley it is to mutate and become resistant to those antibiotcs. This creates superbugs that are untreatable. If it was a yeast infection the doctor may have decided that giving your the treatment they know works was better then giving you oral antibiotics and having them not work, then having to give you the other antibiotics anyway.
Well it breaks my heart to see you this way,
The beauty in life, where's it gone?
And somebody told me you were doing okay,
Somehow I guess they were wrong.
i had thrush when i was little, i went through a stage when i was 5 or 6 of having it almost ocnstantly for a few months. i had a water infection, and it was triggering off thrush. my mum had to give me a pessary for that, mainly because oral antibiotics weren't commonly used then for thrush, and they tried the cream as well. i find that stress is a factor with me and i get yeast infections when in stressed and down, my parents had just started fostering and had a particularly difficult teenager...guess the stress set thrush off for me.
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Thanks Irene for catching that whole antibacterial/antifungal bit.
So to amend my post, anti fungals only work on the site of the infection. I don't believe they make any oral antifungal medications, so anything given for a yeast infection would have to be given at the site of the inefeciton.
Well it breaks my heart to see you this way,
The beauty in life, where's it gone?
And somebody told me you were doing okay,
Somehow I guess they were wrong.
So to amend my post, anti fungals only work on the site of the infection. I don't believe they make any oral antifungal medications, so anything given for a yeast infection would have to be given at the site of the inefeciton.
They do make oral antifungals now, but I guess I don't really know when any of them were first approved so they may not have even existed 16 years ago.
It's possible that they didn't, or they wern't approved for use in kids. Is there a reason you can't ask your parents about what you remember?
Well it breaks my heart to see you this way,
The beauty in life, where's it gone?
And somebody told me you were doing okay,
Somehow I guess they were wrong.
I don't know, I just can't. I can't ask my dad because it would make him too uncomfortable, and my mom, I guess I don't want her to know it bothers me, and I don't want her to start asking me questions about how I feel about it or stuff, or about other things, and I don't want her to think there's anything wrong with me (and if I ask her about it, then she'll think it was traumatic or something) because then she might figure out about other stuff I don't want her to know about. And also I really don't want to have to talk about it.
