question: My son is very unwell. He returned from university on Sunday night and was complaining that he gums hurt. Since then they are now red and inflamed, he is very tired all the time, sleeping a lot, lost his appetite , his jaw hurst and his glands are swollen. Can you help please My husband is a dentist and has put him on amoxycillin 250 mg 3/fails for the gum infection but its just gory worse. Thanks Marilyn