Obviously, I’m excluding the rather large proportion of my workload where the presence of white cells in the CSF indicate metastatic disease … but in normal children, if you did an LP on a child after a seizure and got a total white cell count of 19, would you be treating for meningitis? […]
Category: infection
Treating penicillin-resistant pneumococci with penicillin
Now if you ask me, the idea of treating a penicillin-resistant organism with penicillin seems faintly ridiculous… like an iron with drawing pins on the sole plate. Either the bug is resistant (which to me means it resists dying when I use the drug) or it isn’t (so it will die) but it seems that […]
Q: Honey for neutropenia?
It’s my own question, this time, and throws up lots of annoying little things. The problem is straightforward: I’m a paediatric oncologist in my spare time, and was asked about the use of LifeMel honey to prevent infections. Now, being both an EBMer and a Physician, I said I didn’t know, but didn’t think it […]