whats the deal with amxcicillin?? please?

[Lisabug22]

my cousin is going through a custody battle with his wife and she keeps taking her 4 year old daughter to different doctors to get amoxicillin and shes keeps the medicine she never gives it to the child she tells us that its been spilled and she is throwing a fit all day today to take her to the doctor claims the child has a earache she's freakin out wanting amoxicillin

[IBKleen]

I was just about to say it and Eagle nailed it...Muchausens. She needs help before she hurts the little girl.

[122 Tactical Fighter Group]

Thats goofy - - she goes to extremes to obtain an antibiotic for her child and never adminsters it?    The closet that I can come is "muchhausens syndrom by proxy" .   This is a real, but psychological, condition in which a guardian (usually parent..) enjoys (or needs..) the attention that results form having a sick child and the attendant fuss and attention the Docs and staff show the parent ..........................................................Plain Muchausens is when the adult needs the attention and manufactures illnesses to obtain it..........

[Lisabug22]

i didnt think so....it doesn't make any sense to me either.  maybe she's just crazy.
thanks

[GA Guy]

Amoxicillin is a simple antibiotic and has no abuse potential that I know of...so, I'm at a loss as to why she's doing this.