Child in Post-operative Pain? You're on Your Own

If you have a physician prescribing a medication you have indicated as an allergy (nausea and vomiting is not an allergy) then you need to find a new physician.

No one said you should give your child medicine he/she is allergic to. They said parents are refusing to give their kids painkillers because they fear addiction. Not at all the same situation. In fact, the article was specifically saying that doctors are not paying enough attention to pain management in children, which could be related to your physician not paying enough attention to your child's medication allergy. No need to get all defensive about your "common sense."

No only an uncaring simpleton would do that, a truly caring person would explain to the doctor the child's reaction and request something else, then have them give him a dose while still in the hospital. As a parent it is up to you to care for your child, meaning protecting that child from things such as an allergic reaction. You see the doctor prescribing the medication might not be your standard family doctor or one that is treating everything for that child, what he knows is was is standard forms of care for the situation at hand. If you do not have enough sense to be the voice for your child, maybe you should have considered waiting to have children.

I think parents are morally obligated to "Slap a Doc" when they commit this type of malpractice - namely refusing to listen to the patient or the parents of the patient. Maybe there is another way to get the Doctor's attention, any ideas other than physical violence?

JULIE are you being intentionally obtuse?

lively says:
"doctor precribes (against my SPECIFIC instructions and ALLERGY info"

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I handed it directly back to the doc, saying..."my son is allergic to codiene", to which he responded "Oh, I'm sure he isn't he's only 17 months old". He refused to write a different scrip.

I guess some doctors and some women named JULIE just refuse to listen to Lively. That is sad, maybe you shouldn't comment on a person having and raising kids until you can pay better attention to what they say.

Your situation has nothing to do with the point of the article. What was your point again?

Lively: They are not talking about prescribing a child a pain med that they are allergic to. Did you read the whole article? Or couldn't you wait to type in your ignorant comment. The article said that if you were afraid that your child might have a bad side effect to have them give the first dose at the hospital.
Also if you are a GOOD parent you should know what your child is allergic to. So you should take all precautions when talking to your Dr. and Pharmacist to make sure that medication isn't prescribed.
I am a nurse and I can tell you that if you child has had surgery the Dr. gives your child medication because he/she knows that your child will be in pain. Most of the meds are to be given every 4 hours. You should not wait until your child tells you that he/she hurts. It takes about an hour for meds to enter into your child's blood stream. So that's another hour of pain that your child will be in.
Especially the first day after surgery you should give your child pain meds every 4 hours. You know your child best, and the second day you might give the meds 4 1/2 hours. Each surgery is different as is every child is different. Everyone has their own pain tolerance.
In this day and age their is no reason that a child should suffer from pain after surgery. No respectable Dr. will over prescribe a pain med for a child if he/she doesn't think they will need it.
Also I doubt that your 10 month old could express to you how much pain he was in.
Next time you have surgery I hope they don't give you any pain meds and you have to use Motrin.

That amazes me... both of my sons had tonsil surgery and had to stay 24 hours post-op.

They not only wanted them to drink, but to be drinking WELL before they'd even consider letting them go...

It's a rough thing, but, the smaller they are, the easier they get over those sort of things. Neither of my boys had nightmares from their surgery, but, it might be that when they woke up, Mommy was in the bed with them already, lying next to them. That goes a long way, I think.

I think they didn't always let the parents be so close back there like they do now, but, I borrowed a laptop and played DVDs while we snuggled in the bed together, while they had to be in the hospital. :)

(Also, Strawberry Quick is GREAT for masking the taste of some liquid pain meds.)

I hope you get this message since I am a day late writing it. My 6 year old just had his tonsil, atnoids, ears and tongue tied fixed. Everything went fine, but I learned some things I want to pass on. First, try and be in bed with him before he wakes up for surgery. He is going to be very upset and disoriented. Second, make sue to give his meds on time. If your child is asleep when it is time for the next round wake him up. If you don't it will be he'll to get him to take it, because his throat will be so swollen and painful. I gave the script pain killer for about a week then went to over the counter after that. Ii have had sleep apnea surgery and I remember how bad it and how long it last.

Exactly my point, angie. People need to get some common sense and quit waiting for someone else to tell them where, when how and why to do things.