What is the Wee Care policy on the prescribing of antibiotics and the use of medications?
As a rule of thumb, the less medication given the better. Wee Care recognizes that the body is best at fighting off illness and that all efforts should be made to help it do what it does best. In most cases, when a patient presents with a symptom (such as a fever, cough or runny nose) it is a sign that the body is trying to fight off an infection. It has been shown that, in most cases, infections cure in a shorter time when these symptoms are allowed to go untreated. Untreated fevers, for example, help the immune system to operate more efficiently in fighting off an illness, resulting in quicker cures. The principle is that it is always best to try to let the body deal with an illness with minimal medical intervention.
