Again this morning
This morning Brandon woke up and had his morning milk. After he was done, he sat up and started coughing. He ended up vomiting his milk again. When the clock struck 9am, I picked up the phone to call the doctor. First time I called, the line was busy.
Then I waited 5 minutes and called again. I got the hold of the nurse and told her the symptom. She said there’s no need to go in yet, just monitor his condition for the next few days. If there’s fever and he stilll throwing up his food, then we will have to bring him in. She suggested getting some over the counter (OTC) medicine to help with his congestion, but I told her I prefer not to feed him any medicine if possible.
There were a few recalls on the OTC medicine recently and I definitely don’t want any of those stuff in my boy’s system. It may reduce the symptom but won’t help to cure the whole condition.
Do you use any OTC when your kids are sick? If so what brands?
Honestly, I don’t even know which OTC to buy since there are just too many brands and types around.
We used toddler’s ibuprofens.. that was recommended by the pharmacist..and he is a rather old man.. and the owner…so we feel quite good about what he suggest. So far so good..
posted on January 28th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Never use any OTC medicines before. not now when they are still so small. I still prefer a prescription from the PD.
posted on January 28th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
hm never tried OTC before..usually i give the ones PAED Prescribed. But I did bought some kids panadol for faythe, incase she doesn’t want liquid can take pills
posted on January 29th, 2008 at 10:14 am
you know i might get shot for saying this but it worked for us. i dont know if you guys have Buckley’s in US since they have it in canada. i give her that, its nasty but it works, within 2 days cleared up liao.
non-medicated method, try a humidifier and also rub vicks on his feet and put socks on. worked by us too.
posted on January 29th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
ya, i agree with Shooi. Better dont get OTC medicine, get it from Paed.
posted on January 29th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
sigh….all mummies got to deal with all these yeah….
posted on February 2nd, 2008 at 5:05 am