Following on from the other thread... why why why don't parents get the choice here whether they want to give liquid paracetamol or suppositories?

[emkana]

I just don't get it!!!

I'm seeing a business opportunity here. Would anyone be interested in a cheap suppository export service from continental Europe?

Here in Germany, as other posters have mentioned, they are standard for young children. I only tend to use them now when the DCs have a tummy bug where I am unsure if they will keep the medicine down.

One thing that a nurse told me however, is that oral paracetemol is better for sinking a high temperature as it is gentler. It is more for the body to cope with if the fever is spiking up and dropping suddenly after using suppositories.

Once you get used to it though, they are easy to use, warm them in your hand before taking them out of the packaging, a bit of vaseline and be gentle but firm.

SMS how much??!

dd2 was 3months old at the time and very poorly

theres no way she'd let me now, she is 5. but if i ever have child#4, i will be keeping a pack handy. because my kids always need a bath after paracetamol suspensions.

not sure Brangelina... the only ones who are raving about supp are us foreigners

I would be interested though... why are Brits more delicate about having things stuck into the rear than other European nations?

DD had to be sedated for an MRI scan when she was tiny and because she was a huuuuuge baby the amount of sedative required was massive. The nurse 'couldn't face' giving her a suppository so gave the enormous quantity of the vile-tasting oral medicine. It took about 20 minutes to get it down dd, all the time she was thrashing around and screaming. She immediately vomited most of it back up, the sedative didn't work properly and we had to come back a few days later to repeat the whole thing, including canulation, which was horrible.

Suppositories for kids? Bring it on I say!

i am not a foreigner.

i admit i was a bit shocked by the idea of suppostry, but my god it worked quickly.

just didnt know you could buy them OTC.

DaisyMOO, the nurse couldn't face it?

FFS!!!!!!! SHE's A NURSE!

Well, allegedly. I didn't check her registration

I have got stroppy and bolshy since then where my kids are concerned.

The stiff upper lip extends to the rectum.

I do wonder about the Brit bum sensitivity, I remember being shocked and embarrassed the first time I stayed with my aunt in Italy when I was about 12 being asked daily if I had pooed. It had never happened to me in the UK. I have since got over it and am now quite relaxed about my rear end.

I think traditionally the Brits are quite squeemish about suppositories. You Europeans seem to love 'em though. [tongue in cheek emoticon]

But what is the need for daily talks about poos?

Does anally retentive exist in other languages?

well, freud was Austrian, no?

I confirm that discussing poo is quite a popular topic in Italy.

Because constipation would have been a huge worry to my Aunt and would have necessitated laxatives or my immediate repatriation to my mother.

Seriously though, I always ask nursery how often my DD's pooed when I go and pick her up, so it must be the norm here.

Oh good, it's not just my weird family then.

Yes oral flucloxacillin tastes grim (and leaves nasty marks on the wall)

Fact: Italians love their poo. Seriously. I'm trying to think at the psychanalitic (????) meaning to this.

That's true, nursery even describe the texture and if they don't tell me I ask.

psychoanalytic

I'm coming over all queasy