Posted on 10/12/2007 3:44:24 AM PDT by deport
And when baby cries hard all night from a cold and daddy takes a swipe at her or shakes her too hard, she'll be just as dead.
And nose-dropping or suctioning a squirming, crying infant? Yeah, lot's of tired working parents are going to want to do that all night long.
And, BTW, WTF told the Baltimore city officials that they had ANY clue about medicine? Aren't they practicing medicine without a license here (yes, I know they're not - I'm making a point here).
"If you can actually pull a booger out with a suction device, people can feel better,"
Because some idiot parents overdosed their kids I can no longer buy these products? Are you **cking kidding me! Here’s a novel idea - prosecute the parents who showed negligence in caring for their child. Oh wait that involves accountability! Silly me!
So what happens now? You have to go to the doctor and get a prescription?
I bet the prescription medicine is exactly the same as what just got pulled off the shelf.
What makes you think OTC cough medicines don’t work? I used them on my kids and sometimes when the whole family had a cold I used them myself. Triaminic knocked a bad cough down for the night for all of us. I’m furious that I can’t get this stuff anymore. What’s going to happen, of course, is that parents desperate to relieve their children’s misery and get a little sleep themselves are going to be drugging the kids with their own medicines, clumsily titrated for the kids’ weight, and then we’ll have overdosing accidents and even more deaths.
The stuff worked fine in my older daughter (now 6), my younger daughter never really got colds or stuffy noses enough to find out.
When they yank this stuff off of the shelves, the same parents whop OD’d the kids will simply take the children’s or adult’s version, and eyeball a smaller dose ... sometimes with disastrous results.
Before long parents will have to fill out forms and show a drivers license (passport isn’t good enough) to buy infant cold medicine, just like we already do for children’s medicines with pseudoephedrine.
In other news sales of Jack Daniels have skyrocketed.
Parents will be dispensing small doses of adult cold medicines, now.
With an 18 month old, we’ve found OTC medicines don’t work for stuffy nose. Nothing works for that but steamy showers. Lord knows you’ll never get a suction up her nose.
But when she had a horrendous cold last week, the only thing that helped stop her coughing when she laid down was OTC cough medicine. We tried putting her on an incline. We sat in the shower until the hot water ran out (water restrictions be damned). And I let her sleep on my shoulder for as long as I could stay awake.
But in the end, the cough medicine saved us all.
On another note, I can easily see how one would accidentally give their child too much. We went through it last week, trying to get her to take the medicine. Inevitably, she would spit some out and we would go back and forth about whether we should give her a bit more. Very nerve racking because we’ve known about these warnings for a year now.
What the hell has happened to this country?!
IIRC, less than 140 children died over the span of 30 years.
In other news sales of Jack Daniels have skyrocketed.
Yep. I believe it is a way to start the process of having to go to the doctor to get a script for something you shouldn't have to and next on their agenda is making vitamins and homeopathic items prescriptions and money goes to the drug makers.
When they took Dimetapp off the market, it really screwed us. It was the only thing my son could use.
Yes, it will be the same product. The only difference will be in the cost. The MD will get a bonus from the drug companies for prescribing those medicines, the drug companies can charge more, and medical insurance payments will go up.
And when baby cries hard all night from a cold and daddy takes a swipe at her or shakes her too hard, she’ll be just as dead.
And nose-dropping or suctioning a squirming, crying infant? Yeah, lot’s of tired working parents are going to want to do that all night long.
Wow. Drug them or lose it in a parental tantrum.
Neither is a good thing.
There is nothing easy about being a parent. Promoting drugs is not an answer.
>>>Because some idiot parents overdosed their kids I can no longer buy these products? Are you **cking kidding me! Here’s a novel idea - prosecute the parents who showed negligence in caring for their child. Oh wait that involves accountability! Silly me!
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Yup.
Too many parents using the OTCs as an easy out. They are irresponsible so now we have to pay for an office visit.
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