Is this what Medised is for?

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I've never used it before.
DS2 is nearly 10 months and has woken up today with a stinking cold. He is horribly snotty and bunged up and he woke up every hour last night so is very tired and grumpy and has a bit of a temp.
I've given him calpol but am wondering if theres something else like beechams or lemsip but for kids and wondered if medised is it?
Is it just a cold/flu medicine for kids?

medised is also paracetamol so should not be used alongside calpol.
It does have an antihistamine in it so does help with blocked airways, also contains a muscle relaxant so helps aid sleep when they are very restless.

I use ibuprofen for temp as seems to work quicker but any medicine won't clear a blocked nose. Vapour rub on chest, karvol drops in bedroom at night and try to keep the air moist

its got a decongestant in it and is mildly sedative but from what I have seen now don't like to give it to kids under two as people were using it as a sleepign drug...

that said its not that you can't use it -just that officially advised not to cos of the perceived abuse

medised link

damp towel on radiator good too for snottiness gets atmosphere a little bit moist - also if you can take poor ds2 into nice steamy bathroom that is good.

The won't let you buy medised for under 2s any more due to safety concerns.

Tixylix is good too - not sure if that is available for 10m babies. You could ask a pharmacist for advice.

Its is no longer sold for kids under 2. Agree a humidifier/steam or vaporiser (Sudafed and Boots do plug ins), Olbas oil and Calpol will help.

Obviously a temp is worth treating with a tiny and calpol or similar is good for that. However, relieving cold symptoms under 1 is a bit tricky.
A warm bath is a great way to relieve the bunged up feeling, relax and calm down a young child. Best time to clean a sore snotty nose too - bath softens it up a treat (sorry tmi).
I often burn essential oils and find eucalyptus and menthol with a little cinnamon is wonderful for children (or adults) when bunged up. If you don?t have a burner or not keen to try your own, karvol and similar brands make reasonable room decongestants.

Make sure he drinks plenty of fluids, don?t worry about food too much. Young children often go off food when full of cold. Liquids are the key thing.

Personally I don?t use the cold remedies on children, particularly the "dope em up" kinds. Just personal choice though and I know lots of people find them useful. I am just a bit wary! Mine are a little older so I make hot lemon and honey or my own dandilion cough syrup but then I am a bit of a hippy!!

The Tixylix vapor relase thing is really good and smell nice.

i can't believe i only found out about medised 2 weeks ago!! my dd is 6. I just thought it was like calpol or Medinol, pure paracetamol.

There is also a Karvol vapour fan which is good, as well as karvol capsules sprinkled onto a tissue and put out of reach in the room. Helps clear their nose

Humidifier is the best solution to bunged up noses I've yet found (plenty of practice, dd with narrowed airways so colds extra horrid).

That said, Medised has its place - at least, it has with my dd2. Then again, she chokes on snot in a dramatic fashion

I think Mediset can be very useful. Only a few short weeks ago it was being sold happily to parents of 3 month plus children. I have used it many times (prior to the new advice) and when a baby is congested it really helps them get some rest, otherwise the fussing and crying makes them more congested and thus its a vicious circle. I think it is only a matter of time before the so called experts change their minds yet again. I do use Calpol as my first choice now, however sometimes Medised is still useful. My opinion is that you know what is best for your child and common sense should prevail. Caution should be exercised with all medicines, but if you were to heed every bit of "expert" advice you would avoid everything and be a complete nervous wreck.

I use medised at night when ds has a bad cold that stops him sleeping. Helping him to get a good rest when he's ill seems like a good thing to me. Some people may have abused it just to shut children up at night, but that's no reason for sensible parents to shun an effective medicine for a sick child.

Second the recommendation for humidifiers, they are fantastic. Ours broke once, and I had completely forgotten how miserable things are when a child is bunged up and can't sleep. The one we have has a dimple so you can burn essential oils (or Karvol).

We went out and bought another as soon as the shops open - has been a saviour this past ten days as ds has that bug that's going round.

Can you tell me where you got your humidifier? The bit to burn the oils sounds great - our babies have been so bunged up recently and it sounds effective.

I think it was Boots or Argos - dh did the shopping. He was inspired by me boiling a kettle. The sort of man who loves gadgets so seeing that steam worked, had to go out and find if there was something that would do the job for us!

(I mean, boiling a kettle in the bedroom when ds was little - he's not James Watt, he doesn't watch kettles and go 'eureka'!)

I bought some Medised for my daughter this week, and it was a total waste of money. It tastes so vile she just spat it everywhere. It was a very sticky, messy waste of nearly £5. I'll be sticking to normal paracetamol medicines now, much cheaper and more palatable.

I got my humidifier in argos, DS has had a snotty nose for weeks now and it really helps. Some of them don't have a receptacle for essential oils though so you need to check.
The one I got is this one. It has a nightlight. I put a few drops of baby olbus and a couple of drops of lavender oil and ds is much less snuffly at night.
I also use snufflebabe on his chest if he is particularly snotty.
And second the warm bath for loosening up snotty noses especially when they are all crusty - ds HATES having his nose wiped so by the end of the day he usually has a crusty nose.

thanks a lot for the link, that's so useful. I never knew such things existed! I am going to buy one today!