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Right I have a friend who gives her baby..

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mykidsmum · 09/03/2006 16:51

Those calpol meltlet things, i think they are from a much higher age, can anyone tell me what it is? Her baby is about 18 months old and refuses medicine- don't they all?? Apparently she breaks a bit off and gives it too her, this is scarey isn't it?
Our friendship is a bit rockey at the mo, not sure what i should do, did tell her off when her GP refused her dd aged 5 antibiotics so she gave her adult antibiotics prescribed for her instead.

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fennel · 09/03/2006 16:53

depends if your friend knows what she's doing. my sister's a GP and does this sort of thing but she knows all about the content and doses.

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mykidsmum · 09/03/2006 16:55

Not a gp, no certainly doesn't know what she is doing, I pointed out to her that she gave her dd an adults daily dose in one go. Crazy mad, but apperntly ok by her

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fennel · 09/03/2006 16:57

really that's quite dangerous then. not sure what you should do in a rocky friendship though. maybe tell her off some more and risk the friendship? try and get her to see that dose size really matters especially for babies.

TearsBeforeBedtime · 09/03/2006 16:58

oh dear, oh dear. i am sure you can get some form of dissolvable infant paracetamol pretty readily.

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mykidsmum · 09/03/2006 17:06

Its really odd because she is an intellegent woman, I can't believe her common sense doesn't tell her this is dangerous. Think I will ask hjer about it when I see her tomorrow, and throw in some stuff about the dangers of paracetamol.

Can you Tearsbeforebedtime, i haven't seen it before??

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Flossam · 09/03/2006 17:14

Is she only giving one meltlet? As one of those is equivilant to 250mg. Two 5 mil spoonfuls, which you can give to a child over one, equates to 240mg. So if she is breaking some off of one it probably is around the 'right' dose still

The antibiotics is very wrong though.

chapsmum · 09/03/2006 17:43

agree with flossam on the metlet thing, its quite a cunning way of getting her to take paracetamol, but Shock aat the antibiotics and you were right to tell her off! That is not only wrong but dangerous, some antibiotics in too high doses are toxic. Addtionally antibiotics are prescribed specificallly for illness, ints not a one size fits all thing! again Shock

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