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Dawnie 
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Posted: 13 May 2009 at 10:07am |
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Does anyone know the recommended dosage for a 18mth old? I have only got the measurements from when Lochy was 6mth and we are going on a LONG trip this coming Friday so am wanting him to settle
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Mama2two
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Posted: 13 May 2009 at 1:51pm |
It will depend on his weight but Sam is just over 10 kgs and the recommended dose is 4ml. Hope that helps 
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Posted: 13 May 2009 at 3:15pm |
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The gremlins were prescribed 5ml at about 22 mths, they would have been 12-or so kg.
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Posted: 15 May 2009 at 4:35pm |
I thought that you weren't meant to use it on kids under 2yrs?
http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/profs/datasheet/p/phenergantabelixir.htm
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Posted: 19 May 2009 at 9:22pm |
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Pharmacies aren't allowed to sell phenergan (or much else really!) to be used by under two year olds. Nor are they allowed to sell any sedating antihistamine to anyone for the purpose of sedation.
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Posted: 20 May 2009 at 10:01pm |
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You're not except under the advice of a Dr; as an aside as well, it can have the OPPOSITE effect to the one you are after. This was prescribed to our then 12 month old for a few nights after 8 weeks of getting 5 hours (broken) sleep in every 24 to "reset" him and we gave him his first dose and he was up ALL night!
I wasn't keen on giving it to him in the first place based on what I know about it . When we told them it hadn't worked, we got told to up the dose!!!!! No way I was doing that.............so he never had another dose and we ended up doing something else.
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Posted: 22 May 2009 at 12:09pm |
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we have never used it and won't either.. i wouldn't use anything not prescribed and esp when it's not necessary:(
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Posted: 25 May 2009 at 10:51am |
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We use it for travel as Lochy can be sick for up to a week afterwards
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Posted: 26 May 2009 at 9:35am |
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By the way it IS prescribed by my GP, I am not careless nor would I put something into my child without knowing the side effects of it. I also don't see why my wee guy should suffer from a prolonged upset stomach from travel when there is something out there to help prevent it.
If you have done the trip from Auckland to Gisborne, you will know what the roads are like particularly the gorge.
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Posted: 01 June 2009 at 8:49am |
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Dawnie I agree with you. I used Phenergan with my then 14 month old ds last year on a long haul flight from here to Ireland. I dare anyone to try to put there little one through that without a little help. I like you would never use it to just get a rest but my doctor prescribed it as he has travelled and knows it is not fair to excpet a younge child to not get stressed out stuck in a chair for 30o yours. I only use it on one of the flights and it just calms him a bit. We are doing the trip again in a couple of weeks and I am going off to the doctor to get it again.
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Posted: 01 June 2009 at 1:36pm |
 ShellyBR wrote:
I used Phenergan with my then 14 month old ds last year on a long haul flight from here to Ireland. I dare anyone to try to put there little one through that without a little help. |
We emigrated to NZ in 2005, DS1 was 2.5 (even less inclined to sit still than a 14 month old IMO)and we didn't use any drugs on him and we were traveling for over 24 hours. He was brilliant and he coped with it better than we did!
If you want to do it then by all means do it, they're your children, but don't assume that because you do something that everyone else will.
Phenergan isn't to be played about with, it has caused children to stop breathing and has even caused deaths, if that risk is acceptable to you then by all means go for it but for us the risk would have been too great to use it just to get some "peace" while traveling. There are certainly less powerful drugs out there to treat symptoms they have when traveling have you asked about those?
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Posted: 02 June 2009 at 11:15am |
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Just to be clear, nowhere in my first post does it ask for anyone's opinions, I asked a particular question, so unless you can answer it please don't bother posting.
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Posted: 20 June 2009 at 9:09pm |
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To answer the original question:
We were prescribed 2.5ml for DS2, he was about 11.5 months at the time and a "tiny" 8kg. We were told after that didn't work to up it to 5ml.
The rest you know.
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