“to get a new prescription, and if that’s something different I
have to explain again, and then sometimes they need to call the
specialist, …. sometimes the doses is different than they used to
give, it’s higher … sometimes the treatments are for four weeks
instead of one and they’re like ’we need to ask questions’, I understand
that, but sometimes I get so tired of explaining myself again.” (mother
13)
A few parents worried about the side effects of antibiotics on their
child’s health and they feared that antibiotics would stop working in
the long run as their child is taking them quite often. Parents also
faced issues where their child became upset at having to take
antibiotics due to the ‘nasty taste’.