Phenegon ..in the 1970s

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Did you have a child in the 1970s ,would it of been common practice to regularly give it your child/ baby to make them sleep .

I remember taking joyrides as a child which were travel sickness tablets

Should also add that a GP suggested we try it with our DD who is a terrible sleeper. Tricky to get hold of and didn't make much difference really.

I was prescribed it as an anti sickness for HG and it made me very sleepy! If I sat down I'd sleep.

I used to be prescribed it as a kid in the 80s because of my allergies and eczema keeping me awake at night - was given it to help me sleep.
I can still remember how it felt as it knocked me out so must have done its job

Our DS is prescribed it by our paediatrician - very low dose when struggles to sleep. He has autism and suspected ASD. It has changed our lives!

I have phenergen on prescription. Have done for years! Its a pain if I need to buy OTC though; most pharmacies want to see proof that I have it prescribed.

One of my kids has had it on.prescription for years for awful travel sickness. The GP has recently advised they are no longer providing it on prescription so we need to buy it over the counter.

I remember it, I was born mid 70s and know it had the sick effect of knocking kids out. I think my mum used it when we were ill and couldn't sleep (I was often in agony with ear ache). It is still on the market.

I remember medised too, my daughter was born 2006 and it was allowed from 6 months then with parents raving about it knocking their kids out for the night. I tried it once on DC1 when teething was horrific but it didn't do anything. In 2007 they changed it to minimum age 6 years iirc and a couple of years later it was withdrawn.

My parents used to give it to us in the 70s/80s to help us sleep. The neighbour used to do the same with her kids. Think it was pretty common tbh. My friend at uni used to joke that her (doctor) dad drugged her as a child so she wouldn't disturb their dinner parties.

I buy it from boots for my DD4 and DS9. Both are travel sick and it stops it. Doesn’t knock them out though!
DH takes it for hay fever and it knocks him right out

I've used 50mg phenergan on prescription for years and it still works well.
It's the active ingredient in nightnurse.
If you buy it over the counter don't ask for the version for sleep - it's the same thing at twice the price.

When we lived in Oz, they still sold it. That was back in 2014. We had a bottle.

I think Medised was withdrawn as it contained paracetamol as well as an antihistamine and some parents didn’t realise so double dosed with calpol 😱
Medised saved my sanity with a non sleeping asd child. And piriton has the same effect although he has got much better with sleeping as he’s got older 🙏
I remember giving it to him on a long flight at 2 years old... bright as a button for 6 hours and finally fell asleep as we were taxiing into arrivals!!

I had it as a young child in the 70s for bad hay fever - tiny little blue pills. Don't remember it making me sleepy. GP prescribed it for bad morning sickness - really made me sleepy then! Did help with the nausea though.

Well I was born in the 70s but my youngest in 2014. He has severe eczema and never slept a week in his first three years. Changed GP, first appointment doctor prescribed Phenergan, gave it to him that night, first time he slept through! I only gave it to him a few times over the last few years, it does help him sleep when his itch is really bad. I’ve never been tempted to use it on his siblings 😂

My mum gave it to me as a kid. I honestly thought nothing of it it was a dose at bedtime. It was only later I found out it was because I was the worst sleeper so was dosed up!

Medised caused hallucinations and other sleep issues in some children. Think that's why the age was changed to 6+ and then it was discontinued

It is still available, I got given it by the chemist 2 years ago when DD was 3 and broke her leg. She couldn't sleep and was in a right state, the desired effect happens in minutes, it was actually quite scary and I only gave it to her the once.

I use Phenergan to get me off to sleep (sometimes works, sometimes have to take proper sleeping tablets). All prescribed By GP. I'm sure you can buy OTC in tablet form under the brand Sominex. Mid 90s, inward advised by GP to give it to baby daughter whilst driving to ex-PIL in France.

Gah, I was.

It's still available otc in UK.
Perhaps it's no longer marketed at children though.

In Ireland early 2000s we had a product called "Dozol" which helped the DC get off to sleep when they were poorly or over-tired. It was magic stuff, I used to bring bottles of it over for my SILs in the UK. A quick google suggests its still available in Ireland - is it the same as medised I wonder?

GP prescribed it for my son to stop him scratching eczema in the 80’s.

I got it for my 13 year old a few years ago. He had suffered and concussion a few months before and his sleep pattern was totally disrupted. We ended up taking him to a&e as he was so unwell from lack of sleep and had lost weight etc. He was admitted for observation and I begged them to give him something to help him sleep, but they wouldn’t.

The next day I got phenergan, he slept 12 hours and the next day was the first day in 3 months he started to recover. When we eventually got to see a neurologist at GOSH, I confessed all and he told me the hospital should have sedated him to help him sleep and that I had done the right thing.

Gp told me to give it to my 3 year old on a long distance flight In 2007, she did tell me to try it first to ensure it didn’t make her hyper

I was given it in the 1970s so I would sleep on a long car journey. Apparently it had the exact opposite effect.