to wonder why people give so much medicine to their kids?

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I am totally open to being told IABU here, am just looking for opinions really.

DS3 (7mo) has a cough and a cold. I posted a 'go the fuck to sleep' type status on Facebook earlier and had lots of comments from friends telling me to give Calpol/Nurofen. For a cold? Really? Also some comments suggesting Vicks on his feet, which seems more sensible..

Do people really give Calpol every time their child has the sniffles? Is there actually a point to it, or is it just the done thing to dose a child up every time they cry now? Don't get me wrong, I do give my children medicine if they have a very high temperature or are in pain, but I try not to give it often, and I wouldn't give it for a cough/lack of sleep.

Is it just me?

I can't believe this is still going

Do whatever you want with your own child, leave it in pain, medicate it, place a crystal under its matress and sprinkle holy water off the tips of asparagus on to its face.

At the end of the day it's your child, your choice , but don't moan when they won't sleep and are grizzly because they feel poorly but lack the vocal ability to tell you, but out of some strange overwhelming urge to be smug on a high horse you won't help them effectively andefficiently with modern medicine.

A God catching up has given me a headache, good job I've got some paracetamol to hand and don't worry I'll hug it down with a big glass of water

Of course you have, bumble
I'm going to sleep now, you are boring me to death with your retaliation "pm's" and "agenda" shite.
Enjoy reading all your lovely imaginary pm's.
I have not got one fuck left to give.

Ffs. Giving your child some paracetamol when they are poorly is the best thing to do. There is nothing to loose and everything to gain. Paracetamol is one of the safest drugs around.

Personally I feel pretty rotten when I have a cold, I ache, I'm congested, usually feel headachy. Your baby can't tell you those symptoms so if he wasn't sleeping damn right I would try some pain relief to try and relive him.

Poor love

Cats You're saying things like 'the woo is strong on this thread' and accusing Disappointed of spouting 'natural is best bollocks' when she quotes from the NHS website. How do you know that 'alone it won't do much' if you always just reach for the paracetamol anyway? You may be surprised.

Punk I don't know why you think I give one fuck about your PMs (oops, one PM ) but you keep telling me about it! It's incredibly dull! Nighty night.

I only give medicine to my kids if they have a high temp or are specifically complaining of pain (headache, ear ache etc). They don't have it very often as I do try and hammer home the importance of not chucking medicine down one's throat at every opportunity because it won't work as well when they actually need it if they take it when they don't actually need it. My kids seem to want it more for the taste than because they are actually hurting or feverish. They should go back to making kids' medicine taste horrible because I think that would avoid the sort of situation I just mentioned!

bumbley because it isn't a pain releif. A glass of water is not going to get rid of the uncomfortable feeling of a cold. That's not what water does.

I was on about the undertones of her posts

Lets see. I've had this cold since Friday night - started as a sore throat. DD (5) came down with it on Thursday night, had Friday off school no calpol and a quiet weekend at home with plenty of drinks. She was right as rain by Sunday night.

I've not had any pain killers because I haven't had anything that I'd call pain but took some zinc on Friday night with a hot drink and each morning. Went to bed an hour earlier each night and sat when possible (ironing/preparing dinner etc). Plenty of fluids. As of this morning there's just a bit of clear mucus remaining. Should be gone by Friday, I reckon.

No medal needed, just pointing out that a cold doesn't always need paracetamol!

Singing very true! I mentioned earlier kids asking for Calpol before they go to bed.(not when they're sick) This happened at a friend's house and she just laughed and gave it to them and said "oh, they just love the taste of it".

Cats - but what people have been saying is that you don't always need pain relief for a cold. Sometimes just going to bed with a warm drink makes you feel better. Considering that you've never tried it, I'm not sure why you're so quick to shout it down.

Disappointed yet if you'd have taken it you wouldn't have felt a sore throat much, and you've had to adjust what you're doing. Whereas you could have taken painkillers, strepsils and done normal stuff.

bumbly a warm drink does fuck all. Produce evidence it helps with a cold.

Ummm...see above NHS link!

"encourage your child to rest and make sure they drink plenty of fluids – water is fine, but warm drinks can be soothing"

cat that way of life wouldn't be sticky star worthy though c'mon she changes her entire living pattern for a weekend and did other stuffs like take zinc and sat quietly to do the ironing!! If only there were the Oscars for martyrdom and high horse riding..

I've got a cold too, I took some paracetamol, we went to the park earlier to feed ducks and went to bed at our normal time. I'll never get a sticky star

Ginger LOL. I had a cold recently I took nurofen cold and flu, paracetamol, honey and lemon, cough sweets and went to bed. How indulgent

bumbly soothing as in it feels nice, it won't receive symptoms though. The most it will do is ease a sore throat very slightly

Im all for a bit of calpol etc.

Over the counter remedies are there for the usage. Do you actually think for one moment that this would damage them?

My DS has a huge nut allergy and carries an epi pen. You wouldn't believe the dosage of piriton like liquid they gave him at the hospital when his throat started to constrict.

Why make them suffer/you suffer when you can make it manageable?

Well yes, it does relieve symptoms if one of the symptoms is a sore throat!

Anyway, each to their own. You go ahead and dose yourself and your children up at every sniffle and some of us won't. Just maybe try not to be as rude and dismissive about things you haven't tried and don't accuse people of leaving their children to 'suffer' because they don't do things your way :)

Oh, and the steam from hot drinks can help with stuffy noses and make you feel nice and warm

cat we will never be "them", let's hang our non sore medicated heads in shame.

Let's cast out or sins of inadequacy, let us swear never to reach for the panadol at 2pm on a hectic Monday in the office, we will forever clense ourselves of this sin, from now on we will only use kale and avacado smoothies to cast out our pain, rub our crystals together and exclaim from our office chair "never again pharma, never again" amen.

The sore throat only lasted till Saturday morning - I was asleep for most of the time it lasted. 😁

Calpol is for fevers and pain
Have never given for the sniffles but can see why one would
Ibuprofen lasts much longer so I alternative but only in extreme illness
I don't like paracetamol chucked around, even for myself

Calpol does the lot. Id rather do that than rub stuff into delicate skin.

Calpol isn't a decongestant.

Calpol does what lot?

It contains ingredients that help all cold symptoms but if you feel the need to buy 20 products for different areas its up to you

rose, the active ingredient in Calpol is paracetamol. It is not a decongestant. So if you want a decongestant then, yes, you would need something different.

No, it doesn't. It's not decongestant, it's not soothing, it's not an expectorant, it doesn't shorten a cold........

Rose, it is just paracetamol. That is it.