"Categorically wrong and unprofessional "

My daughter is 8 years old. On Saturday she woke up with difficulty I swallowing after a week of having cold flu symptoms. She had a bit of a rash in her body so I thought it was tonsillitis and best I take her to the walk in centre to get antibiotics. When we arrived the triage nurse saw the rash without examining her at all (!!) and immediately left the room. She brought the doctor and they both said that they feel it might be measles!! I was I

In total shock! I told them I came here for antibiotics for her tonsils. How have they come to that conclusion without even checking her tonsils!! She didn’t have a rash on her face and she didn’t have the spots in her mouth!! The rash on her body looks more like a heat rash!!

We were then told that she had to isolate for 4 days until the results from a swab would come back.

We were move to a senior nurse who reassured me a said that he couldn’t believe that that doctor came to a verdict without examination. He examined my daughter and saw that her tonsils were red and she had an ear infection which was why she had developed the rash!! Also he asked whether my daughter has had the MMR which she had and is another indication that it’s highly unlikely that she would have measles!!! My daughter was absolutely fine after we came back from the centre and the rash disappeared the next day! With antibiotics her ear felt fine after a couple of doses.

3 days of worrying and waste of resources not to mention the fact that the ‘doctor’ was totally wrong!!