bad professional advice... the insensitive, unhelpful and just plain wrong!

[Rouge]

Australia must be really behind, as the nurofen/panadol advice is still given even at the children's hospital.

[christy]

Yeah Cai thats the advice I was given a month ago at the hospital

[Karina]

Yeah I know, this advice was given to my friend last year... so I'm assuming it is "current" advice here (although it was given by the same doctor at the same medical centre I went to about 6 months ago when Claire had tonsilitis and a temp of 39.3... the same doctor told me "she'll be right" and then the doctor freaked out when Claire Claire coughed on her and she refused to examine her further and got her antiseptic hand cleansing thing out and started scribbed profusely at her hands and arms (why are you a doctor in a family medical centre if youre that afraid of sick kids)... so I just though what a crap doctor that would probably give bad advice...)

I dont know, i'm just worried it would be a bit harsh on her little liver. but if its the advice alot of doctors give then fairy nuff. I talked a chldrens nurse about it who told me not to do it.

[Salsa]

Recently research was released which showed a very high link to childhood asthma, eczema and itchy eyes and runny noses to frequent use of Acetaminophen, an ingrediant used on panadol etc.

[suse]

My MCHN didn't know what rice cereal was made from (uh, duh), or why it was preferable to wheaten cereals as a first food. But the Heinz 'introduction to solids' training video probably didn't mention it, so it's not really her fault.

[paradise lost]

Pixie she wasn't that bad a midwife, she'd checked me only 2 hours before and i was only 75% effaced, 2-3cm open....lol. She just didn't know me well enough to see how deep into labour i'd suddenly gotten.

It could be the NHS that;s behind, you never know with "guidelines". If you get 4 professors and give them the same set of studies to read they all come up with different guidelines!

Bx

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Actually, this is REALLY recent stuff from the NHS - I was told just in January it was OK to use calpol and baby neurofen at the same time (ie a spoon of one and then a spoon of the other); by the July it was one OR the other, not both, if you give one don't give the other for four hours... but if you're not interested in keeping up with research (ie you're actually telling people what to do every day) then it's likely you won't have heard about that. NHS direct is often at least a year ahead of the rest of the NHS anyway.