to think the women in the doctors chemist had no bloomin idea!

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Long story short; sat doing the 30min wait for ds medication (poor mite has chest and ear infection and tonsillitis) and a girl of 15 whos mum had spoken to me in the waiting room also had tonsillitis.

Mum came in shortly after id brought calpol, calprofen and handed in prescription for penicillin. She asked for advice on which paracetamol/ibuprofen was suitable for her 15yr old, the women on the counter said calpol and proceeded to try and sell them the 3mnths + one, when the mum questioned it she said calpol was probably (yes PROBABLY) unsuitable for under 6's along with everything else. (yet shed just sold it to me with ds by my side?) Anyway mum, as you would be, isnt satisfied that its going to help her enough and sayes again is there nothing else she could have, the dopey girl looks at the cabinet and finds 6yr+ calcough and sayes this has paracetamol in it its for older kids so should help more.

Am i wrong in thinking she seemed a bit vague, and ALSO at 15 and younger id have just had usual paracetamol?
Is that now different?

I really wish id had the guts to say something to the mum as im concerned this poor girls now going to be in pain with no decent paracetamol!

I had 6plus calpol when had bad tonsillitis and kept spewing up tablets - you can take a high dose of it.

it wasnt calpol it was one of calpols cough remedy's, will that do the same?

I don't think calcough has paracetamol in it. There is a calpol for age 6+ but it's just like doubling up the sachets.

Crikey at 15 I'd want the whole bottle of calpol

Most medicine classes children as under 12 - most medicine it says adults and over 12s for the same dosage...

Gosh 15 year olds regularly have baies in this country - I doubt they use calpol-gas-n-air or calpol-morphone after childbirth...they just get the same drugs as the adults...

Was the chemist lady confused with a 15 month old...??

I dulled a rather nasty toothache with Calpol (was all I had).

It took a fair amount though...

the 15yr old was there which is why im a bit

I agree calpol can help, had nasty tonsillitis myself and gargling it was heaven, but i was also on normal paracetamol and ibuprofen.

I just felt this women should have known far more! She was advising someone on medication, im just concerned i guess, i just asked for what i wanted and she said nothing yet seconds later she said what id brought for a 2.5 yr old was unsafe for under 6!

if I've run out of headache tablets I just guzzle lota of calpol... usually makes me feel sick though

The fact that she said it was unsuitable for under 6's makes me almost certain she thought the child was 15 months, not years.

If you can be arsed you should send a letter detailing what happened.

The practice need to know she hasn't got a clue.

I'M A bit at the mum not knowing - non of my kids got to 15 without having a paracetemol.

i am appauled that the assistant said calpol anyway. The person is 15yrs old and can take adult dosages in tablet form of both. Would be interested to know if the assistant is qualified, as it doesnt sound like it to me. Has she got her OTC certificate displayed in the shop?If she was such a numpty ,did she ask for the pharmacists help. All assistants have to be qualified now and she certainly doesnt sound up to standard.

she went to the pharmacist who was making ds prescription and said is this suitable for a 15yr old and gestured towards the girl, he said yes, as it is suitable but i personally think in this instance there were far more suitable remedys!

I am going to write to the surgery as the THIRTY minute wait when there was just me and the other people im talking about there, was a bit much esp at 6.30pm when i had two under twos who were whinging there heads off!!! slightly peeved me, but mainly I AM SO relieved i knew what my son needed as i doubt that women would have been any use.

Oh and also Ive just assumed it was her mum, i may of course be wrong

that is dreadful on the pharmacists part too. you are right ,there are far more things that are suitable. Ive been a dispenser for 30 years and i certainly wouldnt go back there again. I know they are hassled at xmas but that is inexcusable.

TBH on a day just before xmas 30 minutes is not a bad wait. On the run up to xmas most pharmacies ,especially ones attached to surgeries are doing 700-1000 prescriptions a day. You would be waiting 2 hours at some and forever at Boots. Our xmas record for scripts in one day is 1040 so i wouldnt be too critical about a 30 minute wait. The other scripts in the dispensary will have backed up,and everything needs double checking( more so at xmas because there are so many phone queries and nursing homes phoning up,which all take up checking time).