MSE Parents Club Part 10

aless02

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Yeah I don't like the sound of this calpol induced asthma either! I can't recall giving Keira calpol under the age of 1, perhaps once or twice? Can't really remember tbh!

Is it only calpol though? I'm using some Tesco stuff which is essentially the same, without the name (got it free, sign up to the NHS minor ailment, bonza!)

I think the point was about the paracetamol component (plus the sugar & E numbers!).

pigpen

aless02 wrote: »

Susa, that's a really interesting article. Is there an alternative to Calpol or similar*? This is where not being British comes into play, as I don't know anything about children's products/medicines. Personally, I only take paracetamol if I'm pretty bad pain (as opposed to minor niggles) so perhaps that's a good policy to translate to my children.

* or maybe we should just go back to the "old ways" of letting fevers run their course, provided they aren't the dangerous sort? Hmm...

There is the option of alternative medicines such as homeopathy etc.. they are 'old ways' of dealing with illnesses!! And the paths through which modern medicines were discovered.. in fact many 'new' medicines are the 'old' medicines rather more refined and sometimes chemically manufactured

IIRC it is belladonna for high temps, pulsatilla for snots and grots.. My homeopath friend would be more than happy to help if you need her details..

Does this help?!

Buttonmoons

Isn't belladonna poisonous?

tiamai_d

and coo colostrum was used before the discovery of good old penicillin

pigpen

not of the homeopathic variant!!

tiamai_d

Is the silvercross 3d any good? Theres one going cheap near me that has been relisted a few times.

Is it parent facing?

SugarSpun

Do you think the parents who use Calpol at the first sign of a sniffle are also more likely to obsessively disinfect and do other stuff associated with interfering with immune development/asthma/allergies? Or that sickly children get more Calpol?

I wonder.

Edit: BM, homeopaths believe that water retains a memory of elements that are placed in it even when they're distilled out so that there's 1 drop of (say) belladonna for every 1000 drops of water. So you take ten drops of 0.001% belladonna and it's supposed to help without being poisonous.

Incidentally, belladonna is from the same plant family as potatoes. </nerd>

pigpen

tiamai_d wrote: »

Is the silvercross 3d any good? Theres one going cheap near me that has been relisted a few times.

Is it parent facing?

And I quote..

Need help, must not spend any more money, no excuses, I have the pram and highchair I wanted, DD has dresses enough but poor DH is going grey! If you see me on eBay, remind me about poor Peter being robbed to pay Paul.

You don't need it!

SugarSpun wrote: »

Do you think the parents who use Calpol at the first sign of a sniffle are also more likely to obsessively disinfect and do other stuff associated with interfering with immune development/asthma/allergies? Or that sickly children get more Calpol?

I wonder.

I think parents who calpol at the first sign of a sniffle are making their child immune to it and not educated enough!

DD1 was very very ill until she was 3.5.. they thought she had cystic fibrosis her chest was so back.. she rarely had calpol and ended up resistant to most AB's.. I stopped her having any medicines.. she had a terrible terrible chest infection/pneumonia and was ill for about 3 weeks.. She is now almost 16 and is rarely ill.. if she does get ill it sits on her chest still but she was the sickliest baby/toddler I'ver ever known in my life!!

tiamai_d

Krystaltips wrote: »

You can go off people Hammy...

pigpen wrote: »

And I quote..



You don't need it!

no no no no but but but!!!!

That pram that I spoke about there, was the loola that I got and hated see... so really, I need to change that to the highchair that I want because she is outgrowing dresses so totally needs more uh huh uh huh uh huh!

jillie1974

SugarSpun wrote: »

Do you think the parents who use Calpol at the first sign of a sniffle are also more likely to obsessively disinfect and do other stuff associated with interfering with immune development/asthma/allergies? Or that sickly children get more Calpol?

I wonder.

i think there is a link between obsessively using 'kills 99% of bacteria' products and colds,allergies etc
they must kill 'good' bacteria as well. half of building an immune system is getting the germs to be able to fight them off. hence there is so many variants of the cold virus, but you never have the same cold virus as once you get it you are immune to it.
i do think the cleaner you have everything the more exposed you are to germs (if that makes sense) the best example to me is headlice they only go to clean hair and dont like dirty hair. so there must be other germs/bacteria that do the same