"Two spoonfulls of pink and a spoonful of white, please"

[NotQuiteCockney]

This is what a boy in DS1's class apparently said this morning. He was a bit under the weather (cold) and wanted to go to school, but wanted two spoonfulls of calpol and a spoonful of nurofen first.

I found it a bit creepy, him requesting his medicine like that. I don't know why.

DS1 loves Calpol and nurofen, but doesn't get them often, and certainly doesn't get them on request.

Am I just being overly twitchy?

said to who?

He said it to his mom, who reported it to the teacher, in my hearing. She seemed proud of him. I guess it's good he wanted to go to school, despite being a bit under the weather.

(I also think that mixing calpol + nurofen, although safe, should really be saved for when children are really poorly. I think I did it once. But DS1 is quite sturdy, really.)

well.. i don't think it's THAT odd.
looking after the kids i used to have all sorts of requests for "moochies" as they called it. and various other things

"i'd like 5 sausages and 2 slices of yoghurt" is one i remember! lol

but yes, got lots of reuests for medicine which were promptly turned down! lol

god, that's going to be LInus in a few years he is addiceted to the stuff already

yes definitely! baby druggie
he has been playing with the white spoon today, it;'s his best friend

dd2 requests medicine, she does a fake cough says 'i sick, need meddicee' if she is acyually ill then she gets some, if not then i tell her no, she had to have piriton the other day, she was uumping about going yay mediceee' dd1 on the other hand hates medicine.

god it was almost 1am! he has been SO tired and grumpy today before all his naps, but whenever i put him in the cot he just screams blue murder!
take him out and he just wants to play! lol

Ds prescribes medicine for me if I am whinging about my back aching or whatever. "Shall I get you some Medised mummy?" He thinks it's the greatest thing since sliced bread as it is virtually the only thing he has ever had with sugar in it.

dd had a skin infection the other day, and had to have antibiotics. Unfortunatly the medicine was disgusting. She had to be very brave (and have lots of rewards). When she was little we had the most amazing fights to get her to take any medicine (wrapping up in towels and force syringing was known to happen), but now she loves calpol (well it is pink!)

DD thinks Sudocrem is a magic cure-all. She offered to put some on my head to make it better after the last meet-up I went to.

hmmm maybe!!!
nah, he is sooooooooo cute toddling around

I don't think it's the requesting that startled me, really. DS1 went through a big phase of requesting Calpol. It's more the fact that his mom seemed proud, and the fact he got the drugs.

I'm not incredibly scandalised, just surprised, and wondering if this is normal. It seems it isn't.

Think I'd have been taken aback too - it may not actually have been like that, but the mother made it sound as though the boy was in control of when to get medicine, not her.

DD loves medicine, and has requested it at times (help, she's only 23 months) but its ME that decides when she gets it. Its much trickier now she's old enough to 'pretend' being ill - she's a good actress, wish I'd never bought 'Freddy goes to the Doctor'!

As for double meds for a cold? Nah, I wouldn't. Tonsilitis with high fever yes, cold no.

Well, quite. Double meds is for when they're ill enough that they can't go to school.

We tend to check for fake illness by asking, solicitously, "and does your hair hurt, too?". If he says yes, he's just making it up. Also, if DS1 is energetic and cheerful enough to run about etc, then he's not ill. If he's lounging on the sofa, he's probably ill.

DS is 14mo and gets medication for teeth nearly every week. If I ask him if he wants medicine he says 'yish'. GP says yo have to balnce his pain with the risk of giving him too much. He says you would have to work really hard to give a child too much

LOL, NQC, love the 'hurting hair' idea and will use it next time - at 23 months, DD will fall for that!

When she was 14 months, I agree, it was different - constant teething pain, non-stop viruses, and not yet at the acting-sick stage. A lot of my medicating her was guesswork then - but I think as long as I'm trying my best to do the right thing, I'm bound to get it right enough of the time. Good to hear its hard to overdose 'em!

At 14 months, pain bugs them more, too, as they can't tell you about it, they don't know what it is, and they don't know when it will stop.

The occassional bit of calpol for teething pain isn't a problem. It's double-dosing on demand that has me bothered.

how do you know it was double dosing? maybe his mum used the small end of the spoon!

I'm sure she wasn't giving more than the maxdose. By double dosing, I mean, giving calpol and nurophen.

oh... what's wrong with that?
and how do you know it's nurofen? ds started not sleeping without having something off a white spoon a while back and i used to give him water! lol

Nothing's wrong with that, but it is something you should only really do when you have to.

She said she'd given him the drugs he asked for. He was unwell.