“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’.