THEY HAVE DISCONTINUED MEDISED

[BupcakesandCunting]

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?

[Glitterknickaz]

In my house it's calpol/brufen, lots of pillows to prop up, saline nose spray and benadryl. Piriton sends DS2 (ADHD) hyper.

If there's a cough we add in a humidifier and inhalers for those who need it.

Never been allowed to give my lot medised due to medical issues.

[seeker]

Bloody hell, I'm sorry you all have such sickly children!

[Honeydragon]

Update: it's not discontinued its under licensing review and will return in some form or other afterward. So the current situation is temporary.

[Honeydragon]

Seeker

I hate the bloody stuff my self but you can't stop folk buying it if it's there

[cocolepew]

I bought a bottle the other week, but I noticed the chemist had Dozol as well. I'm gutted about Syndol, it's the only thing that helps my headaches.

[Hecubasdaughter]

It's not unheard of faverolles, some children suffer from paradoxical excitation with the diphenhydramine, it's a known side effect.

There were a number of safety concerns with the diphenhydramine element of medised. There were deaths attributed to it in the US. It can cause heart arrythmias and neurological effects such as seizures.

Initially the adverse effects were thought to be entirely dose related. However later research suggested that risk was determined by the lack of an enzyme required to metabolise it so the adverse effects could occur at normal doses. There is no easy way to know if you produce this enzyme or not.

[TheBigJessie]

Sit in a hot steamy bathroom for half an hour, before bedtime?

[JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar]

Thank you for explaining that, Hecubas

Medised was bloody brilliant when ds was full of cold and teething. And yes I did use it to help him sleep, but that was because he needed the sleep.

I must have got through 2 or 3 bottles in 11 years, so it was hardly a regular thing.

[wannaBe]

I am at the sheer amounts of medication people seem to pour down their childrens' throats in the name of sleep.

I agree with seeker and tsc on this.

I have an electric oil burner and when ds is bunged up I burn lavender and yewcaliptus (sp?) oil, or buy carvel capsules to put on his pillow.

For coughs I give teaspoons of honey - no less effective than over-the counter cough medicine.

Calpol only if has a temperature or in pain e.g. ear ache.

I wouldn't dream of medicating a child who didn't actually have a temperature - seriously this amount of over medication can't be healthy, and it's IMO a good thing that all this stuff is being banned.

[Mrsjay]

It went up to 6plus didnt it ? A gp recommended it for chicken pox years ago , Although there was a rise in parents using it for making babies sleep , I had a freind who gave it to 4 children when they needed clming down

[Hecubasdaughter]

Yes Mrsjay it went up to 2plus then 6 plus.

[BupcakesandCunting]

Oh shut up, WannaBe.

I give my DS a 5ml spoon of Medised about twice a year when he has a VERY BAD cold. I don't pour it down his throat. And FYI, he has been burning up at bedtime since friday. I'm very happy that your lentil-weavy concoctions work for you but they don't work for all.

And it's EUCALYPTUS.

[McQueasy]

Oh bupcakesandcunting
Eucalyptus

[rattling]

WannaBe - but it often recommended not to medicate for a temp either as that is the body's method for killing off bugs.

I think it seems we are all over medicating if a lot of different people are panicking about not being able to use the drugs that do work on the one or two occasions a year they are needed.

They have been moving the Medised guidelines as my boys have been growing up so I've never been able to use it. Karvol/Vicks/steam doesn't touch the snot they produce when ill. Sleeping while holding them upright is getting tougher and tougher.

[BupcakesandCunting]

I will always medicate for a temperature. My DS suffers badly when he has one. He was at 39 last night and having nightmares about daddy putting spiders in the toilet and all sorts. Obviously I did the usual stuff like stripping him down, opening the window slightly, thin bedclothes but it's like the burning heat is coming from within IYSWIM?

[JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar]

You could try a dreamcatcher, Bups.

[BupcakesandCunting]

Yes or hanging a bouquet garni off the door handle of the bedroom.

[ladydepp]

I gave phenergan to ds2 when he was about 4 for travel sickness. It really helped with that and helped him sleep but the next day he was SO grizzly, I never gave it to him again.

I read some time later that in some children phenergan can give them hangover like symptoms the next day. Never again!

Humidifier and saline nose spray have always been our best bets for colds, we used Medised a few times but it never seemed to help as much as we hoped.

[JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar]

Having said that, a dream catcher might help with the nightmares. Children believe all sorts of nonsense.

Seriously though, I do wonder if some children just suffer more when they get colds. DS has got a lot better as he's got older, but "minor" things can still knock him for six. I was the same apparently.

He has a good diet and is generally strong and sturdy, so it has bugger all to do with not feeding him enough goji berries and quinoa. He does smoke quite heavily however.

[seeker]

I was just coming on to say that a dreamcatcher worked like magic ( see what I did there?) for dd's horrendous nightmares. The placebo effect in full flight!

[Honeydragon]

Buppers Poorly boy.

[JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar]

Buppers, to my my own poor ds had a chest infection once that made him terribly poorly but it responded well to antibiotics.

I say to my because I assumed it was just another bugger of a cold and I really should have taken him to the doc's sooner.

The antibs tasted of banana btw and he loved them

[GwendolineMaryLacey]

Remegel? Bollocks.

[JaneMare]

according to Boots online, Medised is available on prescription - both infant and junior strength