Parent & Patient Information System 06/09/2015 Page6 / 51 Give prescribed antibiotics on schedule for as many days as your doctor directs. Keep track of your child's trips to the bathroom, and ask your child about symptoms like pain or burning on urination. These symptoms should improve within 2 to 3 days after antibiotics are started. Take your child's temperature once each morning and each evening, and call the doctor if it rises above 101° Fahrenheit (38.3° Celsius), or above 100.4° Fahrenheit (38° Celsius) rectally in infants. Encourage your child to drink plenty of fluids, but avoid beverages containing caffeine, such as soda and iced tea. Kids with a simple bladder infection are usually treated at home with oral antibiotics. However, those with a more severe infection may need to be treated in a hospital to receive antibiotics intravenously (delivered through a vein right into the bloodstream). This may be especially the case when there is an additional abnormality of the urinary tract like obstruction or vesicoureteral reflux.
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