For giving my dc Calpol?

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My dh never gives our dc Calpol and when I do it's always met with 'why are you doing that?' in a low tone and later on mini lectures on it's bad sides. I only ever give Calpol when necessary (today I know for definite its teeth, eyes red & bloodshot, full of snots and cough) and it's no more than a few days a month I'd say and always lower than recommended dosage (she's 1 & still only give 2.5ml)

For background he was brought up in a homeopathic household and while I respect what they prefer, I'm not going to sit and listen to my child crying and moaning in discomfort.

Or am I just projecting & reading into it too much?

Yanbu... My sil refused to give nephew Calpol when he was screaming night and day teething, saying she didn't believe in giving it to babies. Poor little mite

Ok...I knew the placebo effect would be the next thing trotted out. I was crying in pain, had been in agony for days. If it was the placebo effect, I'm not sure why the super strength codeine and tramadol I'd taken before I took the remedy didn't touch the sides of the pain or make me magically believe I was better.

That implies that you don't know what the placebo effect is.

Not strictly relevant, but always worth it to satirise homeopathy

I understand perfectly well what the placebo effect is.

You have emotional investment in homeopathy; you've a believer, enough to actually do a course in it. You have an investment in all the rituals associated with it. Of course the placebo effect is going to work for you.

You had also been taking tramadol and co codamol.

Placebo. Or the drugs took longer to work than you thought. Or the pain was easing anyway.

Homeopathy has been scientifically tested many times. It doesn't work.

The alternative is that your pain was cured by just water.

My severe pregnancy headaches were cured by homeopathy. Or rather by the lovely homeopath who also had Counselling qualifications and listened to me recount bereavement issues for an hour and a half. This was significant and helpful, but the homeopathic remedies were not the cure