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THEY HAVE DISCONTINUED MEDISED

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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?

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TattyDevine · 13/03/2012 18:09

I can't fucking sleep with a blocked nose. I applaud my kids for generally being able to. Yew-ker-fucking-caliptis doesn't do naff all either. Good old nasal spray does, though if you use it for more than 3 days on the trot you get dependent on it, but with the amount of colds I get I may as well just administer it to myself every 3 hours or turn into a mouth-breathing psychopath.

Don't care how the kids feel as long as they aren't keeping me awake Grin

Its those vermin that give me these colds anyway.

HugADalek · 13/03/2012 18:28

Bless, I feel so sorry for both my kids, one was born with fuck-off huge tonsils and adenoids and mouth-breathed for the first five years of his life. It was his dad finding out he had very bad sleep apnoea and having the operation himself that made me get on at the doctors about how it was affecting him.

And DD has had rhinitis pretty much from weaning from the breast at 13 months. She's been on nearly constant medication since. Such a snotty little monster. Always get a good hanky-ful.

WhereMyMilk · 13/03/2012 18:28

Did you get some of the magic stuff Bups? Went down myself and panic bought! But they did say they had LOADS out the back, so may do a bit of surreptitious purchasing in next few days! and won't be selling out the back of the van at car boot sales, no not me

FWIW, DD has been having febrile convulsions for a vair vair long time-unusual for a girl according to Consultant, has midazolam on stand by etc so has been severe, he also has said keep her temp down and if necessary use calpol/medised and the like to help keep her temp down and prevent the rapid temp rise that will trigger a fit. TBH I couldn't give a flying figs arse for those in the simpering don't over medicate brigade. If she needs it, she gets it.

DS's similarly if unwell will have medicine as necessary-I wouldn't not medicate myself when I felt like shit and couldn't sleep, so why the hell would I make them suffer and man up?

Also one of my DC's has terrible eczema, to the point of being bandaged up at night. GP suggested medised to enable a better deeper sleep and prevent scratching.

Whatever works for you is my motto. DC not addicts yet as really don't need it that often, but benefit when they do.

bumbleymummy · 13/03/2012 18:30

I don't care if you believe me or not Ledkr. He was happily eating melon and watching cartoons with a temp of 40.1. I would have been freaking out but our doctor had said to look at the child and if you wouldn't be worried, aside from the fever, then you probably don't need to worry. I by no means think this is standard, I know children who feel very poorly with just a slight temp but I don't think it is taking a risk to judge a child by their behaviour when they are sick rather than just by the numbers on a thermometer. DS just seems to run high temperatures when he is ill but they don't seem to bother him.

What does giving Calpol have to do with children dying of infectious diseases btw? Surely with your extensive training you don't think that paracetemol is going to prevent your child catching pneumonia or something? Why are you so keen to over ride part of the body's defence system? Do you think you know better?

TattyDevine · 13/03/2012 18:37

Ah for what its worth I used to have 39.8 ish / 40ish type temps as a kid and seem okay, like no more than 38. Just a freak. Yet I'd shiver and ache with just a 37.5 sometimes. It seemed to be down to other factors.

These days as a proper grown up (sort of) if I go over 38.2 I'll feel rank. Had pneumonia last year, yet didn't get above 39 yet used to have stupidly high ones as a kid.

Fevers in their own right don't necessarily need to be brought down, but if you get the achy shivers, its (in my opinion) bordering on cruel not to treat them with something as simple as paracetamol, whether its yourself or you child - that said, kids/babies can't always say how they feel and may often sleep it off better than an adult so there you go...

bumbleymummy · 13/03/2012 18:40

If she needs it then it's not over medicating is it?

bumbleymummy · 13/03/2012 18:43

Tatty, DS must be like you then! My friend is a GP and she couldn't believe how high his temp went while he was still happily playing. I think children can run a higher temps than adults and cope with them much better than we do.

PurpleRomanesco · 13/03/2012 18:46

My DS turns into a floppy rag doll with a temp over 40, Always has. It is very rare this will happen but I will always give him paracetamol as a precaution if I see it creeping over 38.

bumbleymummy · 13/03/2012 18:54

There's a big difference between a temp of 38 and 40...it may not get anywhere near 40 even without the paracetamol. Fair enough if he's miserable at 38 but why given it pre-emptively? Isn't that a bit like taking a couple of paracetamol in the morning just in case you feel crap later?

DoingHouseworkHonest · 13/03/2012 18:57

Jesus. I was of the opinion that it was ridiculous that stuff like Calpol were becoming so heavily regulated, and was a bit Hmm aboutl the warnings being put out on the TV such as Daybreak warning about the overuse of Calpol and it being used everyday - surely we're all grown adults capable of knowing how much is too much when it comes to our kids, and wouldn't use it every day?
This thread suggests otherwise, and perfectly shows the reason we have to be namby pambied and told what to do - there's always some parents out there who think nothing of drugging their kids up all in the name of sleep.
Mine have been terrible sleepers over the years - no way would I use medicine as a sleep aid, and especially not on a regular basis.
Calpol for example is liquid paracetomol. WTF would you constantly give that on a constant basis for all in the name of sleep?
Fair enough if it was a one off as small child had a fever or whatever, and you did it for a few days to bring the temp down and make them feel better.
NOT because they're 'bunged up' with a snotty nose and not sleeping.
Getting used to not having sleep with kids is part and parcel of being a parent. Deal with it, don't drug the poor little things up for the convenience.

Reallyfaroutlookinghat · 13/03/2012 19:04

Hey, don't knock constantly doing things on a constant basis until you've tried it. Constantly.

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BupcakesandCunting · 13/03/2012 19:14

"This thread suggests otherwise, and perfectly shows the reason we have to be namby pambied and told what to do - there's always some parents out there who think nothing of drugging their kids up all in the name of sleep."

Oh do fuck off, there's a love.

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Meglet · 13/03/2012 19:20

I give it to DD when she's bunged up, full of cold and can't breathe when she's lying down. Not sleeping isn't an option as I have to be up for work the next day and can't afford to screw up, I struggle at the best of times!

bumbleymummy · 13/03/2012 19:20

Bupcakes, some parents do drug their kids up for sleep. some

DoingHouseworkHonest · 13/03/2012 19:20

Nope, shan't. Regular drugging isn't a good idea, and quite dangerous. I didn't think anyone would need that pointing out.

DoingHouseworkHonest · 13/03/2012 19:21

Thankyou bumbleymummy, I did mean SOME. Not all, some.

bumbleymummy · 13/03/2012 19:23

Well you did say 'some' Doinghousework but certain posters didn't seem to pick up on it!

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BupcakesandCunting · 13/03/2012 19:26

Regular drugging? Who on this thread is regularly drugging? My DS is a perfect sleeper when he is not suffering from chronic nasal congestion so I have no need to "drug in the name of sleep" Hmm

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PurpleRomanesco · 13/03/2012 19:27

Please stop stating the farking obvious. Repeatedly.

PurpleRomanesco · 13/03/2012 19:28

^ Not to you Bupcakes. To those clutching pearls.

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BupcakesandCunting · 13/03/2012 19:29

In fact, how DARE you be so sanctimonious and smug?! "Getting used to not having sleep with kids is part and parcel of being a parent. Deal with it, don't drug the poor little things up for the convenience." Fuck you. I gave my child this medicine IN THE RIGHT DOSES and NOT OFTEN because he was ILL and UNCOMFORTABLE. I have sat up through the night with my DS when he has been ill and I would do it every night if need be, but if he is tired and needs sleep and I am able to provide him with that through 5mls of medicine approximately twice a year then I shall do so. I resent the insinuation that I am putting my sleep first. I am putting my child's comfort first.

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OhChristFENTON · 13/03/2012 19:31

Deal with it, don't drug the poor little things up for the convenience

Are you talking to thin air DoingHousework ?

No-one of this thread fits with what you have said there Confused

bumbleymummy · 13/03/2012 19:32

Bupcakes, do you think you're the only person on this thread who uses medised or something? Or the only person in the UK? Get over yourself.

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BupcakesandCunting · 13/03/2012 19:33

It's wilful misunderstanding. A lot of people seem to be doing it nowadays so that they can use it as an opportunity to boast at what simply amayyyyyzing mothers they are.

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fabwoman · 13/03/2012 19:33

A question

DS had croup the other night. He wanted piriton. I read the label and then said no. Could it have helped him?