Medised / fenegan / sedation for flights?!

[chrissiejames]

We are going on a 9 hour flight in Jan to Tobago with a 1 year old and and 2 and a half year old. Someone suggested Medised as a sedative to keep the children calm or even something called Fenegan (sp?). Are these safe to use on young ones and do they work? And any other tips?!
(Flight out is during the day and back is night).
THanks!
Chrissie

It's called Phenergan and is used for travel sickness. Some people (not me but pharmacists can do) will give you cross looks for using it as a sedative or for even thinking about it. Some people find the reaction is the opposite I gather and it makes a child hyper so best to test it out beforehand. There's a thread somewhere, I'll see if I can find it.

old thread

Phenergan sends DS2 hyper beyond belief, which we found out whilst on a 7 hour flight!!!!
test it out first!!

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Perhaps there is something homeopathic (and therefore side-effect free) you could try?

Phenergen...aaaghhhh!
DD was pracically bouncing off the ceiling and screaming her tired eyes out at us.
Sorry, not very helpful eh?

Thanks for all your replies - and HRHWWW for your link to the old thread. I think I will give the Phenergan a miss. the 2 and a half year old is pretty calm usually so maybe we will survive with just a portable DVD player (if Father Xmas delivers!)
Thanks all

can I add another no to Phenergan?? tried once with DD1 and it ws awful. She was worse with it than without. Like a baby with a bad hangover. Yuck.

Good luck with the flight though (don't enby you that!)

DS always loves flying & when he was 2 spent the whole of a 4 hr flight playing with the meal tray, seat belt & plastic cutlery.

I now worship at the shrine of Melatonin, thanks to MN advice. You can't get it via your GP, but you can buy it via Ebay (3mg dose for kids). It's legal in America - you can buy it over the counter there - and it really helps them get to sleep. Wonderful, wonderful stuff.

phenergan
hmmm I used this on ds when we flew from NZ to the UK when he was 3
Nightmare opposite effect...
If you must, test it on them first!
My dd is 3 and has flown laods she loves it and is good as gold

I flew to Australia at Easter with a one year old and five year old on my own. (DH couldn't face three weeks with the inlaws) The doctors won't give Phenergan to babies (and she was actually fine) but I've used it on DS since he was two (we go once or twice a year) and it was great - did panic the first time though and keep trying to wake him up even though I only used half a dose. The only problem is they then are raring to go after ten hours unbroken sleep and you are a zombie.....

hmmm i don't find that medised works really. It certainly can't be like benylin, cause when I giv it to my Booby baby she sleeps maybe an extra hour if i'm lucky. Whereas if I take a swig of benylin I'm out of it all night.

I've travelled a fair bit with my two and never had the need to give them anything. Lots of reading, sticking, colouring and being calm yourself will do the trick.

Mym mum used phernergan for my brother 20 odd years ago as he wouldn't sleep at all at night.

We used it on a flight back from the US in July for DD aged 2 and it worked fine (she did scream before she went to sleep but.....then she slept!) she had no side effects expect being full of energy!

Melatonin is brilliant but I haven't used it on kids so not sure on that.

Good luck!

Medised works for us. I use it with the children if they have colds and it certainly helps them sleep better. If I can't sleep, I have a swig and it knocks me out too. Tastes revolting though. I always use less than the recommended dose though, because if one swig knocks me out, I dread to think what a full dose would do to the kids.