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Pink eye! It drives me mad having to go to the doctor for pink eye.

Agree with pinkeye. B gets goopy eyes every time he gets a cold, every time I have to pick him up, take him to the doctor who always just gives me a prescription for eye drops and is never willing to write me a note saying he doesn't have pink eye, it's just a cold side effect, so he always has to miss a day of daycare when he's perfectly fine.

@Foodnerd81: B had one last week - started antibiotics on Wednesday and was worse, plus throwing up, by Friday, so we went back. Turns out it wasn't responding to the amoxicillin so we had to get something else.

@Foodnerd81: two weeks in between ear infections. We had a double ear infection and coincidentally went in a week lately for a rash (my mil "helped" by washing ds' clothes with fabric softener after staying with them) where the doctor confirmed his ears were clear. Good thing though, because he had another one a week later, so at least we knew it cleared up in between.

@Foodnerd81: First of all, our doctor had us come back one week after diagnosis to check the infection/make sure it was gone. But I agree with you - we should be able to tell symptoms over the phone Luckily now (post tubes) we can tell ourselves (drainage) and have a lot of extra drops to use. Good luck mama.

My doctor always had us come back two weeks to make sure it was cleared up. I've slacked with that as they got older and my boys got tubes. But honestly they probably should go back each time. My 3 year old had an ear infection three weeks ago and I took him to urgent care. I never followed up with his pediatrician and he started complaining again this week. Sure enough, it hadn't cleared up.

@Foodnerd81: We have an otoscope at home. DH actually had an ear infection one time. We had to still go have his doctor confirm, but because I knew as soon as I saw we knew we definitely needed to go in. There have been times where we thought the kids had ear infections, but because of our otoscope we saw they didn't and saved trips to the doctor.

Yes! I remember when we had back to back ear infections and I seriously felt I was in the doctor's office weekly!

@T.H.O.U.: @Foodnerd81: We've had it for a long time, but I don't remember it being too expensive!

We have an otoscope at home. And there's a kind you can buy that attaches to your phone and you can snap a pic. My doc will do email diagnoses with that.