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THEY HAVE DISCONTINUED MEDISED

352 replies

BupcakesandCunting · 12/03/2012 22:12

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

DS hasn't slept since friday night. Neither have I. Stuffed nose keeping him awake. As a last resort, I went to three Boots on a quest for Medised then at the forth Boots they blithely told me that there was No More Medised. Well thanks medicine people. You bastards.

AIBU to want to go and do a dirty protest at Medised HQ?

OP posts:
Seona1973 · 30/06/2012 09:07

Calcold has the same active ingredients

Mouseface · 10/09/2012 19:24

Sorry to bring this back up again, but I've just got my LAST EVER BOTTLE OF MEDISED from my lovely chemist chap and he has said that from July this year, they have also removed CalCold from sale.

Deep, abounding, joy and marvellation.

Mouseface · 10/09/2012 19:25

Whoops - try again HERE Blush

xMumof3x · 10/09/2012 19:36

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ILiveInAPineapple · 10/09/2012 19:52

Try phenergan. My mum ex health visitor used to give us it on long car or plane journeys for "travel sickness" sedation

WelshMaenad · 10/09/2012 21:29

Phenergan is hugely unsafe for babies under 2. I know the OP's child us older but just thought I'd sling that one in there.

Trills · 10/09/2012 21:32

Diphenhydramine is great.

(only read as far as that and then decided to comment)

It's what's in Nytol.

You know how antihistamines these days say "non-drowsy"? Well that's one that is drowsy.

kissingtoads · 10/09/2012 22:49

MN fourteenth century wisdom (that's pre-medised):

It was believed you could cure:
Ringworm by washing your hair in young boys pee.
Plague by shaving a chicken and strapping it to your boils.
And for internal bleeding: wear a dried toad round your neck.

No doubt there was panic when pee, chickens and toads were taken off the market. And now medised. Honestly, what will they ban next?

SayersIsBetterThanGreggs · 10/09/2012 22:58

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PeppermintLatte · 10/09/2012 23:53

What's medised? Blush

thebeesnees79 · 11/09/2012 08:24

there will be a good reason for removing other from the shelves. I have never sedated my kids (other than when they had chicken pox or allergy coughs) with piriton unless totally necessary.
simple saline solution and vix vapour rub would work well for a bad cold.

2rebecca · 11/09/2012 08:29

Never used medised and am amazed so many parents regularly doped their kids with it.

CanIOfferYouAPombear · 11/09/2012 08:35

It must have been discontinued for a reason though? I've never used anything stronger than calpol on ds, the sedatey stuff scares me.

IWanders · 11/09/2012 08:42

I haven't read all the posts so apologies if I am repeating something already said but I know why its been discontinued.
Its do with the changing regulations on children's medicines the age when you can give decongestants and cough medicine, I think the age changed to 6 or 7. That's why children's sudafed has also been discontinued although the adults sudafed has guidelines on the side saying suitable from 6 if I remember rightly from the last time I bought it.
So it may be the case that there is another product out there like medised that is for adults but guidelines say can be given from a younger age.

Haberdashery · 11/09/2012 09:25

Bupcakes, I've given my five year old Benylin Night Cough and it worked fine (both for the stuffed up nose and the lack of sleep). I just gave her half the six year old dose to be on the safe side. It doesn't seem to have done her any damage.

EdithWeston · 12/09/2012 05:49

Yes, it is always true that not everyone gets the same side effects. That does no mean that the potentially dangerous do no exist, or are in any way less dangerous, simply because many have been unaffected.

It's a good six months since the Medised licensing issue first arose, and the manufacturer has been out of stock since August. Does anyone know if the other products withdrawn by RB at the same time remain off the shelves? Or if there have been any changes to the plan restart production?

CalCold was withdrawn in July.

Mouseface · 12/09/2012 17:14

Edith - I posted a link about CalCold being withdrawn in July somewhere up thread Smile

As far as my chap knows, his supplier said that currently there are "no plans to re-start the manufacture process and even then, the supply will be trickled back into chemists who had previously stocked Medised"

My chemist has ordered it in, (CalCold) and I have a bottle on it's way here, Dh is picking it up, they can only get it in 100ml bottles currently. Calpol Nightime is also the SAME as Medised according to my pharmacist.

If CalCold doesn't help him, then he said he'll get me some Calpol Nightime.

Never used medised and am amazed so many parents regularly doped their kids with it. - that was one of the original 'theories' as to why it was removed so I heard, before the age being changed from two years to six years old.

It was EXACTLY the same ingredients according to Boots, they had no other explanation for me as to why it had been changed.

Re doping your child so that they/you will/can sleep........ A nip of brandy was used years ago in their milk.

Mouseface · 12/09/2012 18:08

Ignore all of that last bit about a bottle of CalCold being on it's way............I promise I didn't mean it to read as smug as it did...... just having read it back.

DH has just arrived back after going to the pharmacy who ordered it in front of him this morning - "oh, yes of course, it says on our system it will be in after 4pm MrMouse"

Coolio thinks I after all of this 'fuck what on earth can I use.....'

I am about to open the Gin, anyone want one? It IS DISCONTINUED which is what we all said and thought......

The excuse the pharmacist used (not my nice usual chap) said they hadn't updates the systems since May.

Fucking. Brill. I. Iant. Angry

Dink76 · 28/09/2012 17:15

Hi, new to Mumsnet but am completely at a loss now they have dicontinued medised.

Has anyone heard of or tried Dozol. My chemist says it is the same as Medised?

ThingsThatMakeYouGoHmmm · 28/09/2012 17:38

Gutted. I used it myself.

Although it gave DS1 constipation :(

Sitting on this thread in case anyone comes up with a good solution as DS2 is always getting bloody colds i blame his dad and his weak constitution / genes

julienashsouthampton · 30/01/2013 19:43

HI all, I know this is an old post but i too have used Medised for my DS since he was a baby. The other option is Benadryl oral syrup for children as it is the same ingredient used in it & to use Calpol with it. Hope that helps! :)

julienashsouthampton · 30/01/2013 19:48

also, as mentioned previously: Benylin children's night cough just needs calpol added with it to make the same thing :)

hayleyscomet · 17/03/2013 19:44

www.ukpharmacylive.co.uk/categories.php?cat_id=Pain_Relief

www.cooppharmacydirect.co.uk/

Links for online pharmacys.. After trawling them for an hour, I found this, there is stock out there online, you just have to look hard.

Good luck..

And damn unhappy about Medised finishing.

meddie · 17/03/2013 21:04

Oh god terrible news. so glad mine are grown up. I left offerings at the shrine of the medised god when mine were teething...

Buzzardbird · 17/03/2013 21:11

Bups. Lye high st, chemist at the top opp the limes.