6 childrens cough mixtures - Banned!

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all seems a bit wishy washy - I mean they are not even stating the brands and no mention on sky news

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I think dosing up with medised for a flight could backfire easily - ending up with a tired grumpy child who can't get comfortable enough to sleep.

Calpol Night is on the list, so is Medised (look for Medised for Children, name is not as short as yo might think). Nothing is being removed from SALE, just from open shelves. Well, at least according to that article, nothing on mhra.gov.uk yet, can't BELIEVE am having to rely on Daily Mail.

Don't know why CalCough considered to be directly marketed at under twos (age 1 to 12 according to bottle here) but Medised not (3 months plus is it?)

pelafina - medised and calpol night on the daily mail link further down. You'd of thought they could of put that blooming list in alphabetical order to make reading it easier wouldn't you

but surely the instructions are like

5ml 3 times a day

how much simpler can you get?

The products they are removing completely are targeted only at under-2s.

There are 90 other products that will be put behind the pharmacy counter (or removed from supermarket shelves) until they can be repackaged to say they should not be used on under-2s.

Basically, they are saying that there is a risk of under-2s receiving an overdose of cough active ingredients, even in products which are formulated for babies - the ptb do not trust us to measure the correct dose.

Everywhere seems to be giving conflicting info though. The way i read one link is that 6 products will be removed immediately, the others will only be given out when asked for "With clear dosage instructions". I don't get that, becasue a lot of the medicines on that list have to be given to you by a medicine counter such as Boots. You can't jsut take them off the shelves to buy. You cna't buy Medised off a shelf in Asda. SO i don't understand.

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Yes the measuring thingy I got with kids medicines prescribed in France had the weights graduated on the sides, so the dosage was pretty much foolproof (if you know how much they weigh)

i am not surprised they have taken things off like medised and calpol for nights as the amount of people who dosed their kids on this to get them to sleep is actually quite high in real life. i have paracetamol, inbruprofen suspensions in the medicine cupboard, plus a small bottle of medised. i only use the medised at night if dd's have a temperature and a cough/cold, to help them sleep. dh has throat pastels (must check to see if older dd's can use them now), and i have been taken hot lemon and honey to sooth my throat, as dont want to take anything OTC as expecting #4 atm. we use lots of vaopur rub (prefer lloyds pharmacy own brand to vicks).

why are they taking nasel drops off though? are those the same as saline drops? i used saline drops when dd1 had a cold at 10days old to help clear her nose so she could breastfeed.

I think it is a case of nanny state gone too far. You will now have one year olds feeling poorly (who could feel better with medicine) but they've pulled it all off the shelf because they think parents are too stupid to follow the instructions. How incredibly insulting!

Thankfully, I don't have any under twos so this won't effect me. But I think it's mean to make babies suffer unecessarily on the basis that parents are too stupid to follow instructions.

Misdee - you can also get children's sudafed. It's good, tastes pleaseant as well. I often use it if my 2 have a snotty nose, and it can be taken with Calpol/other paracetamol and Iburpofen

saltire, actually dd1 was perscribed childrens sudafed last week, she doesnt like it, but has an ongoing cough, so GP perscribed it for her as she hasnt had a decent nights sleep in 3 weeks and is exhausted. she is 8.

My DS's consultant wrote to his docs to tell them to prescribe him a medicine in powder form for me to make up at home as and when it was needed.(By the time I would have seen that he needed it got an apointment and then the prescription filled it would be too late to be efective) .
They were told by the docs that they could not do this as I could not be trusted to add the correct amount of water to it!!

Misdee - me again You can laso buy those vapour things. Sudafed do one, as do Olbas and there's another one, the name escapes me at the minute. Some are plug in types and some are battery operated. You put the vapour pad in and it works during the night. I tried the Olbas one for Ds2 and it was good.
It's awful when tehy don't get a lot of sleep. DS2 is 8 as well.

lol i do have a plug in sudafed one, but have run out of pad thingys to put in it. i agree they are great. dd2 has been having vapour rub on her chest, and some karvol on a hanky tied to her bedpost as well. our house stinks of the stuff lol.

I think its the nanny state gone too far. Medised is excellent provided its used sensibly. Decongestants can prevent children from having a perforated ear drum.

Surely it would be more constructive to make these medicines prescription only.

Have they banned piraton for babies?

Karvol - that's the name of the one I couldn't remember. They also do a plug in vapour thing.

A pharmacist told me that one of the active ingrediants in Medised is the same as in phenergan!

Phernergan and Medised both contain sedating antihistamines, but not the same one.

I think it would be worthwhile to make sure the labeling makes it clear that the products shouldn't be used with anything else - I didnt realise medised had paracetomol & antihistamine, for instance, for a long time.

ds is prone 2 laboured breathing when he has a bad cold. Better in my mind to try antihistamines than have him develop viral induced wheezing.