pain stop night..

[Alan]

Pain Stop can make them sleepy. But perhaps a good sleep is what your little one and you need right now

[Olive]

i do feel like im drugging her thats why im so torn between using it or not
alan she does need some sleep!!
lee i only have the night one, not the day..

she is beside herself at the moment

[Rouge]

Ask yourself this. Are you giving it to her because you want her to sleep or because you want to ease her pain? People give their children Panadol all the time even at the slightest temp when we should let their bodies fight off whatever it is they have, yet when our children are in dire pain we can't help them? That doesn't make sense to me. I have had earaches before and they are bloody awful, I can't imagine the pain of that and cutting teeth I have cried numerous times with earaches.

[Lulu]

Oh chick just give it to her.
You are relieving her pain first and FOREMOST. Ear infections are horribly painful. If it pushes her over into some healing sleep so be it.

[Olive]

i'll do anything to rid her of the pain i hate seeing her like this, i dont care about whether it makes her sleep or not, im more worried about it making her too sleepy

[BellyBelly]

Just to clarify, I was NOT suggesting that choosing to use the pain stop was an act a drugged up child mother would do. Only you know your situation hon, how bad she is and how much it's gone on. Trust your gut, you'll know.

[Astrolady]

I would give it to her and without hesitation. I have given both Kameron and Lachlan pain stop before when they have got really sick with tonsillitis/ear infections and we couldn't get our script filled till 9am the next morning. 24hr chemists are few and far between here.

[Lilly-Pilly]

I took a 12 year olds dose of pain stop once when i had no other option and it knocked me out cold for 3 hours! (When I was 24) Thank god a good friend was with me and she hung out and looked after DD with her kids while I slept.
Having said that, i gave it to my DD when she was 5 and had chicken pox so badly it hurt her to lay down and nothing else was working. She felt better but hardly even got drowsy!
Different for everyone, stick to the reccommended dose and hope she feels better soon!

[Olive]

well it seemed to take the pain away way more effectively, she still woke as per normal for her at the moment but wasnt as distressed as she has been. im actually glad it didnt seem to make her drowsy as i was worried about her!

[Schmickers]

Just to make people aware, Pain Stop is really quite safe, and honestly, the night-time one probably won't make your child that drowsy. It's got a little dose of antihistamine in it (which is what makes them sleepy, and is the difference between pain stop night and pain stop day) which helps dry up runny noses and allergy symptoms, and other than that, just paracetamol and codeine. It's not honestly that much stronger than plain paracetamol - some children don't respond to the codeine at all.

I've used it before, without any qualms. Adequate pain relief is REALLY important.

[~me~]

That's great Olive...you know what you are doing, keep it up xxx

[~clover~]

If you can get her to take it & it helps, I'd do it. I have pain stop I was given for DD1 after surgery, but she refused to take it, so we just went with overlapping the panadol & nurofen. I have given it to DD2 for her tonsillitis though. It did make her sleep, but with the amount of pain she was in, that sleep was very much needed. I'd do what ever is needed to help her with the pain Your not drugging her hun, your helping her. She needs it. Giving it to her just coz she won't sleep, but is otherwise happy would be drugging her.