...to think I can be trusted with suppositories?

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Why, why, WHY can't I buy paracetamol suppositories for children?

DS2 is asleep with a very high temperature that needs to be brought down, I have now had to try to wake him up and give him oral paracetamol. He point blank refused as he is poorly and tired. It would have been so much easier with suppositories and I wouldn't have to worry about him not taking his medicine.

Does anyone know what the reason is behind these not being on sale in the UK?

it's a shame, really.
they are brilliant for children.

My German colleague tried to find some for her little boy and said the pharmacist looked at her like she was a paedophile

Go to your gp and keep in the cupboard?

My doc prescribed them for dd at 12 months who couldn't take paracetemol orally. I didn't much like giving them to her but definately better than a high temp/pain.

Can you get them on prescription then? Will definitely try that. (Still would have been easier if they were on the shelf.)

a what?

I don't know what they are

they are available on prescription.
and keep well in the fridge.
and you can be confident child has had the correct dose and they work fast and no upset tummies.

You can buy them. They are called alvedon suppositories, they are very expensive though.

but what are they, what do you do with them?

put them up your child's bottom.

they dissolve in the bowel, NotYoMomma.
so they deliver the active ingredients in a different way.

Why are they very expensive? Why are pharmacies trying to put us off buying these?

I'm quite sure the production line is not more costly as they're not 'very expensive' in other countries.

no demand I suppose.

A torpedo shape pellet of something like soft wax mixed with paracetamol that you stick up the bum! Sorry to be graphic.

I don't know why they aren't around in the UK, I guess we are extra squeamish.

I've never used paracetamol suppositories but I did have IV paracetamol when in hospital and it is magic stuff when given that way, if the suppositories are half as good as that I would have loved them for my children when they were tiny.

I've bought paralink suppositories OTC in the UK before, but I'm not sure how long ago. Are they not available at all or just where you went? They are commonly available all over Europe.

In Norway, this is the standard way of administering paracetamol to children. I always used to stock up while on holiday. It is so much easier.

I asked exactly the same question. DD spits medicine into my hair. She never gets the right dose, I wish you could get suppositories more easily in the UK!

The British have a bit of a thing about bottoms.

When on holiday in Spain once, we were offered these by the pharmacist for dd who was sick. MIL point blank refused to let me buy them. I grew up abroad and was much more laid back about the idea. Still chuckle at the look on her face, you'd think he'd suggested some barbaric ritual.

They're very expensive. That's the main reason

A GP will prescribe in some circumstances though - for example, if you had an autistic child who you could not administer medicine to orally

You can buy them OTC but most pharmacies have to order them in as they aren't very popular here

What a brilliant idea I've worn more medicine than my DCs have ever taken.

"The British have a bit of a thing about bottoms."

That is exactly what my gp said when I asked about suppositories.

I did not know what suppositories were called at the time, so tried my best to describe it, in a polite way, to my lovely young GP.

Who blushed A LOT, when I told him I wanted paracetamol for my baby, to be administered like Marilyn Monroe did before photoshoots, to get a smaller tummy.
He said "Thanks to you, I will now have the imagine of Marilyn Monroe, taking suppositories etched on my mind for ever"

But I am a forriner, of course. I have been known to walk into a psychiatric clinic asking to see a doctor because I could not fly with my nose. (It was blocked due to sinusitis)

I have also explained being late for a lecture because I was held by my tutor ( as opposed to being held up), and explained absence with nasal constipation (congestion, again sinusitis)

If it was not for us forriners, you lot would not be as bemused.
Admit it, we DO brighten your existence.

People are very reserved here about their bottoms and genitals. Look at 'Embarrassing Bodies'.