Would you wake to give Calpol?

[jamoncrumpets]

3 yo DS is feverish and in pain from, we think, a sore throat (he has speech delay so can't tell us).

GP on phone advised us to alternate Calpol/Nurofen and take him to out of hours if he's worse tomorrow. When we do this he's generally ok - eating and drinking and happy. But he had a nap earlier which coincided with Nurofen leaving his system and he woke up VERY tearful and poorly looking.

He had Nurofen at 4. I have just given him some Calpol now. Would it be daft to wake him at 11ish to give him some more Nurofen? I just want him to have a comfortable night!

I would wake if they had a temperature when I checked on them, otherwise I'd leave them to sleep it off.

If he is comfortably asleep then he doesn't need it.

If he’s asleep then no

He was comfortably asleep this afternoon. Then woke up very very upset and clearly in discomfort. I just want to avoid that again.

I would be worried that he wouldn’t get back to sleep

I've given DDs Calpol in the night, they don't usually wake up properly - I sit they up, tell them I'm giving them medicine, syringe in mouth, they swallow and lay back down. I would check temperature first though and only give if they need it.

Remember to include nighttime doses when you're working out overall doses in 24 hours.

Ds who is 5 had a high temp last week end, I would defiantly waken to give meds as my alarm didn't go off and when I work he was 40.2 and when I woke him to give meds he was hallucinating as he was just too hot.

I phoned 111 and they said to see a gp the next day as hallucinating isn't the norm but I would always always wake to give meds as it's important to keep their temperature down as much as you can and you could do it in 3 hour shifts so ibruprofen then three hrs later paracetamol and so on so no more
Than 4 diesels of each medicine in a 24 hr period. I did this for 3 days and apart from a sore throat he is grand now

I used to do exactly what cliffdiver suggests when mine where little. They never woke up. Was essential when DS had his tonsils out.

Fab sorry about typos bloody phone autocorrect hope your lo feels better soon