For the last 2 weeks I have had every child in my home coughing up their lungs! Seriously it sounds horrible. Well we all know that the news media has been saying not to give children under the age of 2 cough meds that are over the counter. Ok well that is fine but what do we give them then? Gee no one can answer that question. The Sun-Times had an article about it where one doctor is stating that to stop giving over the counter cough meds asap, yet when the question came up this brilliant doctors' answer was: (GET THIS) Give the children the correct dose amount of the medication. BUT YOU JUST SAID A FEW SENTENCES AGO NOT TO GIVE IT TO THEM!! Oh sure confuse the crap out of us concerned parents, what a moron!
I understand that there are people out there that give the children a stronger dose (for whatever reason) but what these parents need to realize is that there is more harm to their child in doing that. Giving them more is not going to make the cough, cold, fever etc. go away any sooner. But if we are going to have knuckleheads tell us not to give certain meds then for petesake tell us what we can give them.
I took the girls in to the doctor today and he stated that these types of coughs and colds normally hang around for 8 weeks! WOW!! that's a long time of hacking out a lung! So now I have a "prescribed" cough medication (just to let you know it is the over the counter stuff just in a different bottle). How horrible to see these kids miserable for 8 weeks and there is nothing I can do to help soothe them.
Poor little things :(