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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 10:04 AM
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I can not believe I've been giving my child this crap....
My allergies were bothering me this morning but I ran out of my usual stuff so I used my daughter's medicine (Children's non-drowsy alcohol-free allergy syrup) and I am high as a kite right now. I naively assumed that children's medicine wouldn't make me feel this way and even though I took the recommended dose for 12yrs and up, it's half of what is recommended for my daughter's age and yet she's 1/3 my size.

I'm grossed out by this and I'm throwing it away.
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Oggy Donating Member (652 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 10:08 AM
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1. what's it called?
So I can avoid my daughter having any. Mind you it sounds like I wouldn't mind trying it.
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 10:44 AM
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10. oops, it's Children's Benadryl Allergy & Sinus n/t
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 10:10 AM
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2. Medicines work differently on kids.
What would make you loopy might not do the same for her.
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 10:20 AM
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3. I'm trying to remember what she was like the last time she took it
but my head is too foggy to remember. I hope this stuff doesn't react to her the way it does me because I'm knocked on my ass right now.
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SnowGoose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 10:20 AM
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4. Good point.
Many medicines come as an inactive molecule, which is converted into the active form by your body's own metabolism (cough medicines with dextromethorphan are one example).

This metabolism often takes place in the liver (the liver is the first organ the blood passes through after leaving the intestines). It is accomplished by enzymes, many of which are significantly different in children.

Maybe it would be a good idea to observe the child, or even ask them how the medicine makes them feel.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 10:24 AM
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5. Shut up, I have to study this kind of stuff for my exam tomorrow
I need DU as a getaway, free from any such stuff! Haha.
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SnowGoose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 10:55 AM
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14. Quick! What enzyme metabolises dextromethorphan?
Answer: CYP2D6

Good luck studying, primate cousin.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 10:27 AM
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7. dextromethorphan=DXM
a very potent hallucinogen in cough syrup. Trust me. I drank alot of robotussin to see what it was all about and it was like a bad acid trip. it was that powerful. It was eerie
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 10:32 AM
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9. A friend of mine got really fucked up on that
Damn near overdosed.
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SnowGoose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 10:52 AM
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11. Your friend must have consumed an ungodly quantity.
or been reckless enough to consume a product that contained other active ingredients (frequently dextromethorphan-containing products also contain expectorants or other compounds).

While anxiety, confusion and incapacitation are common with large doses (think a whole 4-ounce bottle) frank overdose leading to death is quite rare (check PubMed).

'Goose
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 10:55 AM
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13. All I know is he got REALLY fucked up
I wasn't there so I don't know what he had.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 10:25 AM
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6. can I get the name...
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 11:10 AM
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17. yeah, it's Children's Benadryl Allergy and Sinus. n/t
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liontamer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 10:30 AM
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8. I agree with others, it doesn't affect her the same way
Unless you've noticed her getting high when she gets colds. :)
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 10:55 AM
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12. Good for you.
I had a yuppie gf who used to give her hyper little boy Robbitussin to "calm him down" when she was stressed. We called it "Robo-dosing." You're a good mom, GloriaSmith.
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 11:09 AM
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16. thank you so much for the compliment Heidi
I hate the idea of pumping so many chemicals into her little body unless it's very neccessary. My grandmother use to drug my mom and uncle with a certain kind of otc medicine to get them to "calm down" and my mom is still angry about it. Kids grow up to be adults who remember crap like that.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 11:14 AM
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19. "Kids grow up to be adults who remember crap like that."
Indeed we do.

I have a wonderful adoptive mother and father. My birth mother, however, was not so stellar for a number of reasons, child drugging among them.
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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 10:56 AM
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15. I fainted once in elementary school
was on OTC cough syrup w/codeine and Rx cough syrup w/codeine.

Stoned off my gourd at 11.
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 11:12 AM
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18. ugh. I hate codeine...it's the worst feeling in the world
fainting is a scary thing, it must have been horrible at age 11. Did it scare your parents?
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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 11:26 AM
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20. Nah, the RN figured out right away what was wrong
What made it creepier is that it was during a "don't do drugs" film, and the stuff they put in the film to simulate hallucinations are what put me over the edge!
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sir_captain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 11:30 AM
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21. You're probably just sensitive to benadryl
it can really knock some people out (me included), as it passes through the blood-brain barrier.

It's nothing to really worry about, though.
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