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My 19 week old baby has a boil on his jaw line. i took him to the doctor who prescribed flucloxacillin 4 times a day for a week. is this necessary?
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Perhaps: It is always hard to second guess a provider when you did not evaluate the patient. Your physician was treated a staph infection as the most probable cause. Without clinical findings and a bacterial culture it is difficult to answer.
Answered 9/12/2013
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