to be considering giving my 13 month old medised...?

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she is teething horribly at the moment and barely sleeping (and neither is anyone else in the house) ...calpol is not doing anything.

today in boots i was hovering over the medised and seriously considered picking some up, even though it is not meant to be given to under 2's.

but i have a 5 YO and an 8 YO and i definitely remember giving it to them as babies, it was allowed for 6 months and above as i remember, in fact may have even been from 3 months?

anyone know anything about it?

i am going mad from lack of sleep

Are you certain that it is just teething?

IIrc, it has now been moved up to 6 and over hasn't it?
And fwiw, it should be used with caution. I gave it to my dd when she had chicken pox, and that was back when the lower limit was 2. SHe was 3.5 for what it's worth. There is a minority of people who go absolutely loopy on Medised, real hyperactivity. My dd was one of them
I can sympathise, I have a 2 yo who has Never slept through, but drugging them? No.

It was from 3 months when DD was a baby, she's 3 now.

I never found it made much difference TBH and was more likely to be vomited back up than plain paracetamol. Did find it helpful when she had a horrible cough, but she was 2 then.

And although the pack may say 2 years, they are no longer allowed to sell it for children under 6.

it's now recommened from 6 years though it's still says 2.

I feel your pain!

Yes, it was from 3 months - I gave Medised back when it was allowed, but I am wary now.

You know you can double-dose Calpol, alternating with Ibuprofen/Nurofen/Calprofen, don't you?

Maybe get her ears checked as well - DS1 used to get ear infections when teething

Please don't

It's dangerous in such a young child

Can she take ibuprofen? You can piggy back the doses of calpol and brufen to keep her comfortable, be very sure to read the instructions carefully

I have a bottle in the cupboard that says from 6 months. I know the age has gone up but I still give it to my 3.5 year old if she is really stuffed up and it does help. BTW the new age is 6 years, I asked the pharmacist in Sainsburys and he said that the ingredients have not changed so am not sure why the age has shot up so much.

Firstly poor you for having to cope with the lack of sleep.

Sadly I have to say YABU to want to give medised to your 13month old (although I understand why you want to). The licence and recommendations for medised were change due to new research. The research implicated sedative medication like medised in some cot deaths. Not something I would consider taking a risk over.

ASs your dc is 13months you could consider adding in ibuprofen (e.g neurofen). Has she had it before? She should be ok if she is not asthmatic and doesn't have any stomach conditions. The ibuprofen is anti-inflammatory so can be very useful for teething pain.

loopy on medised? its meant to have the opposite effect isnt it??

it worked like a dream on my elder 2..... sigh...

so is the formulation stronger now then? if not i dont understand why the age has been raised so much?

How old is she? I know DS2 got into the habit of waking, after the teething pain had passed. I took him to the GP because I was sure there was something wrong with him. in the end did < whisper it > CC when he was 18 months, after about 6 months of the waking.

Yep, it's a known side effect, some people go crazy on it.

The formulation is the same afaik. It is just that new research was done. See my post above.

.. oh sorry - I see 13 months. That's when it started with DS2.

So why can I buy it for my 4 year old with noone asking me a thing?

I gave my teething boy medised - I still give it to him if he's ill - but only at night. I don't like the ibuprofen stuff as it's pretty heavy on the stomach but it's good for inflamations.

I found the best thing on the planet for teething was ashton and parsons (is that the name) - and that won't hurt your lo at all.

I think there was a study showing that cough/cold medicines are not effective in children under 6 and can infact prolonge the illness. I'm pretty sure that some people were over dosing children as they were not following instructions which can be very dangerous, as well as using it for prolonged periods.

Medised makes my kids wild!!!! Calpol night doesn't have that effect and just makes them sleepy as it should.

it was changed due to side effects like sleep disturbances and hallucinations:

Children's over-the-counter cough and cold medicines: New advice

I have given it on the odd occasion to ds(3)when he has been congested and cant breathe but would only give one dose at bedtime. I also use albas oil on a hanky under his pillow and a vaporizer e.g. karvol.

p.s. calpol night and medised have the same active ingredients

The packaging still says from 2 giveitago. When the advice was published the manufacturers were given time to change the packaging. I don't know why you weren't asked questions giveitago but tbh it does annoy me when people don't get advice on medicines. Ashton and Parsons is a good thing to try.

Medised contains paracetamol and a decongestant - which is the problem ingredient for side-effects AFAIK (of course paracetamol/Calpol can be fatal in overdose, so you can't give both)

Seona1973 I did notice they have the same active ingredients so was suprised not to get a wild child with calpol night - for my kids it must be the colouring or flavouring tohugh they have never eacted to anything before!

But quite honestly I've been using it fine so as they cannot prevent me from buying I'll still buy it.

My ds is fine with it and it's used rarely (as I'm not a big fan of medicines). But as the advice has changed ask the pharmacist for advice always.

if she is able to have ibuprofen, we have found this far more effective than calpol for teething pain

Oh sorry - there is something called Calpol Night now ? I am behind the times. ignore my last post