to have said something to my friend re: calpol use?

[Piggyleroux]

I am a bit worried that I have messed up here by not being able to keep my gob shut.

I have just got back from staying with an old friend for a week. She has a 7 mo dd. we have known each other for about 20 years (college together) so have a solid friendship (until now possibly).

Basically, she gave her dd calpol every day at least twice because she is teething. She said that she gets through at least a bottle a month because of teeth, colds etc. Her dd has had a cold pretty much since she was about three months old which I wonder if it is due to having so much pain relief it is affecting her body's inflammatory response.

I said this to my friend who shouted at me and asked me what to suggest if her dd was in pain. My dh is a doctor so i have a little knowledge about medicine and now that it can cause harm as well as good. This was on thursday, I left yesterday and the atmosphere was a bit frosty.

Aibu to have said something to here?

I hope that nobody is trying to say that it's never right to stick one's oar in, we should all be willing to discuss our children's care in a low pressure way; there's something wrong if you never want to have your choices queried in a friendly way. The only question should be exactly how the OP said what she said, or whether OP is in a chronic habit of causing her mate to feel undermined.

I guess if it were me, OP, I'd apologise for upsetting her and then bite my tongue in future unless desperately worried about something. There's nothing like having kids to make you realise how much you don't have in common with "old friends".

ragged - I think that the OP was factually wrong is also a key thing here.

good grief, 2 doses a day is nothing. really get over yourself and fo goodness sakes apologise. We used to give DD calpol and or nurofen every night for months when she was teething - she'd be inconsolable and sleep max 40 mins stretches otherwise. As a doctor I know there is no harm at all unless exceeding the maximum doses

It was Medised back in my ds's days of teething, we should've been sponsored by the stuff!