[Shethink13]

I once offered a Benadryl to a mother on a flight and you would have thought I’d offered her poison for her child. ‘I WILL NOT MEDICATE MY CHILD UNNECESSARILY’. I said, ‘your child would be happier’. I was glared at for the rest of the coast to coast flight.

Why did you offer it? Was the child being disruptive?

[farming pharmer]

I once offered a Benadryl to a mother on a flight and you would have thought I’d offered her poison for her child. ‘I WILL NOT MEDICATE MY CHILD UNNECESSARILY’. I said, ‘your child would be happier’. I was glared at for the rest of the coast to coast flight.

Young children can (and often do) have opposite reactions to medications called 'paradoxical reactions'. Benadryl can wire a kid up, and Sudafed can make them drowsy.

[originalbuckeye]

Of course! I am not in the habit of speaking to people that I don’t know and offering them medication. The kid had been screaming for over an hour at that point. The kid would have been happier if she had been able to relax and go to sleep, which is what Benadryl would have done for her.