WIBU to have given Calpol?

[Thurlow]

Because DP is annoying me...

14mo has a temperature - 38+ (our thermometer is pretty shite, I need a new one), certainly hot to the touch and faster breathing, but not the raging 40+ we can get with an ear infection. No idea what is causing it. So I did the usual: cool bath, Calpol, bed in just a babygrow and no sleepbag.

On being told of this DP, who is at work this evening, texted back and said "don't dose her so much" (alongside nice things about hoping she is ok, before I make his sound like an absolute prize)

Calpol is perfectly acceptable at this point, right? She hardly ever has it anyway, well obviously if she has an ear infection she does have a few days of Calpol 2-3 times a day for a few days, but other than that she gets it very occasionally when she seems about ready to chew her arm off with teething.

Definitely calpol before bed. What kind of heartless bastard wouldn't give a sick baby calpol before bed

It's the point at which there is no more distractions that they really feel all their niggles. Calpol will mean they fall properly asleep so their body can work its sleepy time magic.

Calpol is not poison. I once gave calpol / nurofen on an 4hr cycle for 12 days (told to by 2 doctors)

It would take a fuck of a lot more calpol than your ever going to give them to damage their liver. So if your think your baby is in pain, give to poor thing painkillers.

herrena, no-one is suggesting withholding painkillers from babies in pain.

It is just that giving paracetamol/ibuprofen just for fever can extend an illness and make children more prone to things like asthma.

Calpol for pain obviously. But not for a temperature with no pain-a temperature is a sign that the body is fighting an infection of some sort- it's not a symptom on it's own that needs to be treated.

I was told by GP that ibuprofen was better at lowering temps initially. - no idea if its true but always use first and "top up" with calpol.

But in most normal circumstances, with children with no underlying health problems, there is no need to lower w temperature- it's a sign that the body is working properly.