to give my 3 year old a dose of piriton before a long flight?

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DD 3 is very hard work, stuggles to sit still for longer than 10mins. Whilst getting holiday jabs nurse said "large dose of piriton before take off should do the trick".....kind of thought she was joking but I am very tempted!! AIBU?

One of the mums in our baby group is a GP and when her first baby was born he NEVER slept until one week she breezed in looking 20 years younger after a week of sleep and a nightly dose of Medised for her DS! :)

Just beat them unconscious and they should give you no trouble at all.........

YABU, although I have had a couple of nurses and a Dr. say similar to me before. I was quite and I never did it.

I put lots of audiobooks on an ipod and keep some little toys and stickers and stuff for DS when we fly and he's brilliantly good, although he's a complete maniac quite full on usually.

YANBU - so long as you test your child for hyperactivity reactions prior to your flight.

"YABU - do you really think it's right to drug a child to sleep?" mmmmmm.....yes I think so

I have flown to NZ twice (and back); first with 1.5 yr old then with a 3yr old and 1.5 yr old. Never gave them anything drug wise but it was not as bad as I thought....they slept loads.

I am pleased I never as when little guy had rash we gave him Piriton and he was hysterical ALL NIGHT!!!!

So be carefull!

Sorry forgot to add YANBU!!
LOL peeringintothevoid :)

I never did, btw, just breastfed endlessly. But if I'd known I could give her something that could do the trick with no lasting ill effects, then HELL YEAH!

DD1 had an allergic reaction to something when she was 3 and was hospitalised as a precaution as she is severely asthmatic. They gave her a very large dose of piriton and it made her completely nuts - I think she was awake well past 3am and running around the room with the nurses constantly coming in and saying "how can she still be awake?" It was about 10 years before I dared to give it to her again.

I've tried it once when DS was two, and it had no effect whatsoever. And it's true, it can make them hyper so not worth the risk.
I've heard something about Bach's Rescue Remedy and it's calming effect but haven't tried it.

yabu. read the instructions on the bottle and see if it recommends dosing for no reason.

yes yabu.

And no, it is not ok to drug a child.

YANBU - I gave ds phenergan at 2.6 for flights to Oz (expect to be flamed) but after the most horrendous experience when he was 18 months it was the only way I was ever going to see my family again!! Don't judge unless you have been there. But definitely try it out first as many have said it often has opposite effect. You can go to the dr?s and they can prescribe it for you if that makes you feel better.

I suppose it is the same as RItalin.

Wouldn't say categorically that yabu, but for Gods sake test first if you're thinking of doing it.
I tried it on my daughter when she was 3.5 out of sheer desperation (was going thru a long drawn out redundancy process and she was feeding off my stress and taking hours to get to sleep at night).
It made her completely hyper for about 3 hours, even though she was no stranger to sugar and had never reacted to anything else.

WEll I did it on a return flight from Spain. On the outward journey I had so many filthy, filthy looks. It was a nightmare. I don't know what people expected me to do. Put my hand over his mouth and smother him? It was really upsetting.

While in Spain I got an anti-histamine, and the chemist told me to give him four drops ( adrop per year) adn yhey presto he slept for two hours.

phew. so I say yanbu

I've flown long haul (to SA and elsewhere) with ds on my own since he was 2. Never drugged him. He slept on the overnight flights and was lively on the daytime flights. It meant I had to engage his interest on the 8 hour daytime flights but figure that is my job as a parent (and had no one to share the load). It never occurred to me to drug him although I do know friends who regularly medicate with Medised even though the long term effects on brain development of doing so are unknown.

There's a difference between a lively child and a child who cries/screams for the entire duration of a flight, as some children are more than capable of doing. I don't have enough holidays to worry about 'regularly medicating' my son. And also, I knew that by the time I next had a holiday he might be old enough to handle it. so i've done it once. But omg it was the right thing to do.

yes, a children's medicine. to be used to medicate an ailment. not to be used willy nilly because parents dont want to entertain the child on teh flight. this child is 3 years old not 12 months old. she should be capable of sitting down and being amused by her parents, a few crayons, on board movie, some snacks. OP where are you flying from and to? how long a flight are we talking?

I think it's naive to assume that just because ONE child or some children will be content with a few crayons and a bag of buttons that all children will be. That's the smug outlook of somebody who doesn't have a difficult child.

I medicated one of my children and not the other. There was a reason for that.

OP, YOU are a better judge of whether or not your child needs this. People on this thread are implying it's cruel, the child hasn't asked to be 'drugged', but the child didn't ask to be on a plane listening to that loud hummm for hours and hours and that is what upsets them. I think for some children it is the kindest thing to do. If a child is really upset on a plane, you can't console them, and you will be burnt alive by the laser beam dirty looks from everybody around you.

I don't presume you HAVE to fly anywhere, when all said and done, so YABU.