to give my baby medised?

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Need some advice really. I don't really like Medised and have only ever given it to DS1 once but DS2 (7 months) has had a bad head cold (no temperature) for the last 3 days and is waking up about once an hour HOWLING with rage and misery. DH went to Boots today but they said there are no decongestants that they can sell for under twos.

He is pale with red eyes and utterly miserable.

I know there are new guidelines on medised too but don't know what they are. AIBU to not medicate him as I don't like the stuff or should I put his comfort first?

BTW he is sleeping in his chair to try to stop all the muscus blocking him up but it's not doing the trick.

I bought a Boots own make electric vaporiser around 10 years ago. It is around £20 then you just buy the menthol pads which cost around £3.50 for five. This has been brilliant every time one of my kids gets a cold stuffy nose bad cough etc out it comes with the Calpol. Lasts 10 hours and helps them breathe to get some sleep I have never heard of Medised it has never been recommended to me by pharmacist or prescribed by my GP . I think I would be very wary of something which could act as a sedative albeit very mildly on such a young child.

calpol night is the same as calcold (same ingredients but different name) - they are both only for over 6's now.

this has links to the medicines no longer to be used in under 6's

I know u can give ibuprofen and paracetomol but don't have bottles to hand to check age guidelines (sorry). I have antihistermine here (ds has allergies) and that bsays not for children under a year but that does have good effect on cold too.

Perhaps if your worried ring NHS direct I do feel for you its not nice watching your child when they are unwell.

never used medised but have been tempted

i like to do a hot steamy bath with adrop olbas, saline nose drops, they do a spray now but they prob would protest at that as much. paracetamol and a room vaporiser help but its tough when theyre so small

i just wondered if OP meant in a bouncer chair when said was sleeping sitting up?

i did this when dd was similar age, secured tightly and so it couldn't tip up in cot. i did however hear of a case of similar and the seat tipped up with the babe suffocating.
only wanted to mention it but i don't think it was secure and the baby was much younger i think.

good luck with the cold dd and myself are suffering too.

Your child does not have a temperature, therefore paracetamol and ibuprofen are not needed. If it is a stuffy nose that is keeping him awake then raise the top of his bed slightly and put some olbas oil on a tissue in the corner of his bed. And try this sinus massage my kids love it

I used calpol night with ds under 2, in fact prob under 1 or 1.5 after the advice had changed to over twos only

It has run out now and as the advice has changed again to 6 plus i prob wouldn't risk it, more as i didnt have the correct dosing instructions, the ingrediants could have been slightly modified etc. than because i believe it was an inherently bad medicine

If i had an old bottle (still in date) with old details on i would be tempted, colds get much bigger when you can persuade them to blow their nose

just checked on net and it says not to give children under 2 ibuprofen - sorry.