To take my toddler's liquid Neurofen at a pinch

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My back is killing me tonight! Usually it's stress or picking up DC related and just 1 ibuprofen is usually plenty to help me ease off to sleep and rest enough to feel better by dawn.

...However, just found out DP has used them all for his hangover a couple of days back!

BUT, just found DC's Neurofen for children bottle during the cupboard raid.

Says 1x 5ml spoon = 100mg so 2 spoonfuls should do the trick.

Just sense checking there isn't some obvious red flag I'm missing in my eagerness to get to sleep!

Thank you

Don’t see why not although I’m not convinced it’ll work.

I wish they made calpol for adults…

Should be fine.

Well I can confirm that calpol works very well and quickly for migraines (on holiday once with a full pharmacy for DC but nothing for me), and nurofen liquid capsules are amazing for tonsillitis (but so expensive) so I can’t see why you couldn’t tbh.

It's fine. we use it at work for adults (NHS) just work out the correct dose. Liquid is supposed to be quicker acting. Hope it works.

It'll be fine. Your reasoning is right

When my kids were little the painkiller suspensions had adult dosages on them. They work just the same, adults do use them for a number of reasons. Particularly adults with an LD.

Yes OP it's fine and it will work just as well.

It’ll be fine 2-4 5ml spoons will be the adult dose

@PearlLennox frankly I'll happily take the placebo effect right now

It's fine, I've used calpol lots of times for migraines when I've run out!

The normal adult dose for ibuprofen is 400mg so you'd need 4 spoonfuls for that, but there's absolutely no reason why it wouldn't work.
I've used calpol when I've run out of paracetamol before now. Admittedly you need a big volume, especially if it's the 120mg/5ml concentration and its disgustingly sickly, but it works - the active ingredients are just the same in the children's versions.
Get well soon!

Perfect, thank you all for the input. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything obvious.
If all goes well I will be very quickly disappearing off this chat and off to sleep
...fingers crossed...

Use an online dosing calculator for your weight and strength of liquid. Useful for DC who are taller/heavier than average too.

My DH does this. Drives me fucking nuts, 2 ibuprofen costs about 5p, but he uses up the kids £5 a bottle nurofen and then there isn't any when they get a temperature in the night.

It's exactly the same stuff as in adult tablets except at a lower dose and in liquid form so if the OP takes 2 x 5ml spoonful's she will still be getting the equivalent of 1 200mg tablet. Calpol is just liquid paracetamol, there is no reason why the correct dose of liquid paracetamol (4 x 5mls spoonfuls of 6+ calpol) would be any less efficient than the same dose of the tablet form (2 x 500mg tablets). DH was prescribed it recently and it worked well for him.

We use Calpol or liquid brufen/nurofen all the time for patients with feeding tubes if they can't swallow. It's exactly the same stuff but in suspension, just follow the dosing instructions on the packet.

…why has this never occurred to me before 🤯

Finally, i can validly consume half a bottle of calpol.

Yes the only reason why adults shouldn't take it is that it costs an arm and a leg at adult dosages. But if you're in pain and there's no tablets in the house then that's not the main issue.

I had a really terrible bug a few years back that meant I could barely swallow and ended up in out of hours for the pain - the doctor said just to take paracetamol and ibuprofen on top of the medicine they prescribed... when I said there was no way I could swallow a tablet he said "oh just get calpol and kiddie nurofen and dose up to the adult dose!!

I got through loads of the stuff!

Crack on, I've never understood taking one ibuprofen / paracetamol so it can't be that bad. Just dose up.

I was taking two 400mg ibuprofen a while back in error 😬

had the shits but the pain was gone

I can't swallow tablets. I find liquid Nurofen great for headaches. It's expensive but my only option really if I need ibuprofen.

Liquid painkiller is sometimes the only way I can combat the nausea section of a migraine.

I buy generic paracetamol and ibuprofen, and keep a bottle of each in the house.

I hope you feel better soon.

I have Achalasia and it’s a nightmare taking tablets so on the odd occasion I need to take ibuprofen I take the Nurofen kids orange one.
I usually buy mine from Savers £2.49 last time I looked. Great for migraines too!

I've used calpol before and I can see why kids like it

I miss medised to be fair, it was a blessing for migraines.