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anyone else horrified by the journalist who sedates her kids on long journeys?

125 replies

Tanya86 · 08/04/2013 15:50

i was really shocked by this. I have done many a long train journey when my son was a baby and toddler. He would cry and be noisy and want to run up and down the carriage. It would still never enter my head to sedate him and believe me the journeys were very stressful! I would be terrified and be watching every breath he took and probably end up more stressed as a result.

Many people seem to sedate their kids but it's certainly not for me!

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Sanctimumious · 08/04/2013 20:03

yes, Sophia, as you distinguish, I do too, I did it on a plane. Not on the 67 bus ykwim?

I did it on the way home from Fuerteventura, partly because of the number of filthy looks other passengers gave me, and partly because it was just an exhausting experience for me, my son was clearly not happy, the other passengers were miserable. Journey home was so much easier. No regrets.

ClaraOswinOswald · 08/04/2013 20:03

I have never sedated my children and am against the use of any drugs for convenience. The 'journalist' admitted to giving her son more than the recommended amount and being unable to wake him on arrival. Could a child die that way?

Also, can you take liquids through airport security now?

Sanctimumious · 08/04/2013 20:05

Yes, Amen + 2 !

TCOB · 08/04/2013 20:08

Just another tack by the Daily Fascist to get their circulation up. Sadly I'm sure it's working.

roundtower · 08/04/2013 20:09

My dd was prescribed Phenergan for sleep problems due to itchy eczema and it had no effect on her at all.

I was given the same drug when I was in hospital with hyperemesis and it knocked me out!

SophiaTheFirst · 08/04/2013 20:09

Clara Yes you can take medicines through security if you have a prescription for them or if they are in a bottle of less than 100ml.

I always take medicine with us as we have prescribed medicines that we have to carry at all times, including on flights. They see the bottle, I try to take a new, unopened one, and the prescription and once I have been asked to taste a little and I had to open the bottle to do so.

I have no idea if you can travel with liquid antihistamine, in a bottle bigger than 100ml withotu a prescription or not though.

SophiaTheFirst · 08/04/2013 20:11

Still laughing at the idea of using Phenergan on the number 67 bus

PanpiperAtTheGatesOfYawn · 08/04/2013 20:15

sophia Sounds like a song title - like "Brimful Of Asha on the forty five"

SophiaTheFirst · 08/04/2013 20:23

Spoonful of Phenergan on the sixty seven.... it sounds quite catchy!

I can honestly say I have never heard of anyone in RL (not sure if anyone on here, haven't read every post on the thread) using Phenergan on a train or a bus. My impression, could be wrong, is that the OP hasn't done longhaul travel with her DC.

I haven't used Phenergan on a plane but having done long, long haul with two preschoolers in tow I wouldn't judge anyone who chose to do so. Its about making your own choices and accepting that others might make a different decision to yours, no two situations are the same and what is the right decision for your and your family might be wrong for another.

Also, on the plane how could you know which parents are giving prescribed Phenergan to their DC and who have just bought it over the counter? Presumably, people are less judgy if it was doctor prescribed? Or is it a blanket disapproval?

BangOn · 08/04/2013 20:25

i wouldn't feel comfortable giving my kids medicine they didn't need, for a purpose it wasn't intended for, & without their consent. tired children fall asleep on long journeys anyway when the time is right ime.

PollyEthelEileen · 08/04/2013 20:28

This thread is why I always travel first class.

SophiaTheFirst · 08/04/2013 20:30

It is one of its intended purposes though. It is used to treat allergic conditions, as a temporary, mild sedative for children and is also used to treat travel sickness.

SophiaTheFirst · 08/04/2013 20:31

Polly

AmberLeaf · 08/04/2013 20:34

i wouldn't feel comfortable giving my kids medicine they didn't need, for a purpose it wasn't intended for, & without their consent

Again, sedation is a legitimate use for such medicines, it even says so on the packaging

...and er, consent? do you ask your child for his/her consent when you give them medicine then?

Sanctimumious · 08/04/2013 20:38

Astonishingly, children are allowed in first class!

PollyEthelEileen · 08/04/2013 20:54

Children, mine included, are allowed in first class, but they don't run up and down the carriage, even when not sedated.

PanpiperAtTheGatesOfYawn · 08/04/2013 20:59

Nor do mine, Polly. They're drunk on free champagne.

PollyEthelEileen · 08/04/2013 21:00

You get free champagne? I have to rustle mine in in a brown paper bag :(

elfycat · 08/04/2013 21:07

I now understand why DD1 gets to sleep so well...

She's a magnet for anything that bites and likes O Pos. Some nights she comes to my room wriggling, I've counted up to 30 bites and sighed over the long night ahead.

A dose of calpol and piriton later I have a good night. I gave the medication because she needed it, but it turns out I needed her to have it too!

(but I won't take advantage of this new knowledge)

Sanctimumious · 09/04/2013 00:18

bottoms up kids

HappyMummyOfOne · 09/04/2013 09:28

"I would never dream of giving my children anything it constantly amazes me how much calpol other friends go through. Sometimes the thought of a journey is far worse than actually doing it"

Agree totally, theres no way i would sedate DS unless he was ill and the doctor prescribed.

My calpol always expires date wise before its anywhere near used up. Friends get through gallons of the stuff despite no more illnesses that most children get.

As for Medised, i had never heard of it before MN but am shicked at how many people use it as a sedative for children and at how many moaned when they withdrew it and changed the age limit.

YouWithTheFace · 09/04/2013 10:24

Surely it depends on the child, too? I could be utterly smug and say I've never dosed mine for the sedative effect, but she's a reasonably quiet child who enjoys sticker books and being a grown-up on an airplane chair. I take absolutely no credit for that, and if she was like some of her cousins or friends, I would have no hesitation in giving her half a spoon of antihistamine to bring her down off the inevitable overexcited rampage in an airplane cabin. Seeing as no one shouted at us as unfit parents for dosing her on the selfsame stuff at much higher doses for her viral rash, her chickenpox, her eczema...

blueshoes · 09/04/2013 10:42

Cannot get excited. Lots of adults self-sedate with alcohol on long flights

squeaver · 09/04/2013 10:50

Gah, you lot don't know you're born - my mother used to give us all half a valium on Christmas Eve.,

Sanctimumious · 09/04/2013 15:09

ha ha! good idea. you still got some?

I was thinking as well, how my granddad used to drive us to cork and back, smoking his pipe as he drove, and if we opened the window he'd say he was cold!

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