Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
General health

Mumsnet doesn't verify the qualifications of users. If you have medical concerns, please consult a healthcare professional.

Original poster

^^^^^^^^^^^^^dd2 not well, medication advice please^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

12 replies

TrinityRhino · 12/01/2007 23:01

she woke in the night last night with a temp and snotty and sad.

today she has had nurofen at 12pm and 4 pm and then calpol at 8 pm ish, can I give her more nurofen now becasue she still seems quite hot?

OP posts:
Original poster
TrinityRhino · 12/01/2007 23:02

please

OP posts:
Original poster
TrinityRhino · 12/01/2007 23:05

stop talking about the old guys you'd shag and help me

OP posts:
pageturner · 12/01/2007 23:05

Yes, you can.

My children had a hideous bug before Christmas and a couple of times I was dosing them for part of it at 2-hourly intervals (alternating Calpol/Ibuprofen). So, maximum dose of both. It's fine.

Original poster
TrinityRhino · 12/01/2007 23:07

thanks pageturner, she really isn't happy at all, poor wee thing keeps sneezing herself awake

and shes hot and very clingy

OP posts:
pageturner · 12/01/2007 23:09

Ah, bless. Dose her up, it'll help her sleep!

frumpymummy · 12/01/2007 23:30

My DD has come out with the snottiest nose in history this week ! It's horrid, she keeps wiping it on my shoulder and boobs....
Good luck and fingers crossed our LO's get better very soon xx

belgianmama · 13/01/2007 00:19

Neurofen and calpol can be mixed as neurofen does not contain any paracetamol and vise versa calpol does not contain ibuprofen. Hope this helps and that she's feeling better soon. My dd had a very high temp this week too. Make sure as well that you don't wrap your lo up too much as it will only make her temp go up. 1 layer of clothing indoors is plenty.

Califrau · 13/01/2007 00:27

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Original poster
TrinityRhino · 13/01/2007 10:34

it was dd1(6) that wasn't well the other day, shes fine now, no more runs, ears are fine and she eating well

dd2 (20 months) seems much better this morning, wanted breakfast and ahsn't got hot again this morning yet, last medication at about 4.30am so fingers crossed shes getting over it, still snotty but hopefully temp is over

OP posts:
prufrock · 13/01/2007 10:36

As others have said you can use nurofen and clapol. But have you discovered Medised? It's paracetomol based - so you use it instead of Clapol, and it also has an ani-histamine that dries up snot and helps sleep.

saltire · 13/01/2007 10:39

prufrock is right, medised is great for when they have colds, and lots of snot, etc. I gace my mindees mum a bottle as she was saying he ahdn't slept very well. She was singing its praises the next day. MY DS are almost 9 and 7, and i still use it

Original poster
TrinityRhino · 13/01/2007 10:41

oh I know I had medised last time she was really snotty and it was great but only seem to be able to find it at the big tesco 17 miles away and the weather is awful, I'm having spd trouble again and I had calpol and nurofen so I didn't go and get some

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page