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Fiber Gummies and PediaCare Giveaway

November 18, 2010 By 5 Comments

This giveaway is closed. Random.org picked comment #5 – Congrats Alicia!

My sister has a 2 year old boy with a more sensitive digestive system than her other 4 children. [Yes, 5 total. She's braver than I am.] The little guy’s stomach would get so-o hard and he wouldn’t want to eat. When I received the Pedia-Lax Fiber Gummies I passed them to her to see if they would help. I’m happy to report that they have helped! The little guy loves them and brings the bottle to her so he can have one.

My kids had some before I gave them to her and I saw a change in their bathroom habit the same day. My sister said that for her 2 year old she has to consistently give them to him and then it helps. She didn’t notice a change right away, but she gave him one a day until the bottle was gone and the consistency has helped. [Read more...]

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We Tried Thin Strips and Have 5 to Give Away

March 23, 2009 By 19 Comments

I know that my children get better faster if they sleep and eat well, and they need to breathe well to do so.  I used to be really stingy with medicine, but the combination of having children over the age of 4, more noses to wipe, and going more places makes me offer medicine quicker.  

That means I have to find the medicine and the little measuring cup.  Then I have to figure out the proper dosage, pour it, and hope they don’t spill the little cup halfway to their mouth.  The other day my daughter drank it too fast and coughed some back up.  That makes me question, “Did she get enough medicine in to help her stop coughing and sleep?”

Triaminic sent me a box of Thin strips just in time.  Have you seen any of their advertisements?  The medicine is individually wrapped with the right dosage.  No little measuring cups needed.  The medicine is  a paper thin strip that kind of melts on the child’s tongue.  My daughter didn’t get it completely on her tongue and it melted on to her teeth, but a drink washed it right down.  It took me longer to open the foil package then it took for her to take the medicine.  Now I know to just snip it open with my scissors.

I was more comfortable sending my children out with other children knowing that they would not be coughing and blowing their nose so much.  Sometimes I do just keep them home because it irritates me when a sick child is out in public spreading their germs around.  I guess it would be rude to print Triaminic’s Free Sick Day Guidelines and hand them out to the other mothers.  Maybe they wouldn’t mind a coupon for Triaminic.

I was brand loyal to other medicines, but I’m glad that I tried Triaminic.  Would you like to try it also?  They have offered 5 boxes of Triaminic Thin Strips, Day Time Cold & Cough Medicine for a giveaway.  Did you get that?  5 of you can have a box of medicine for free!

To enter this giveaway you must:

  1. Live in the United States
  2. Have a child age 4 or older – If your child is younger than 4 you are not qualified.
  3. Promise to follow the dosage instructions
  4. Leave me a comment telling me the age of your child that would take the medicine

You can earn extra entries by tweeting this giveaway, stumbling this post, subscribing to my RSS feed, or linking to this post from your site.  If you complete any of the extra entries please leave a separate comment for each.

This giveaway ends March 30, 2009.
The winners picked by Random.org are comments # 1-Amanda, 7-Faith, 11-Paige, 14-Tami, & 16-CanCan.  Congrats to you!  I’m sending emails to each of you.

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Just Swallow It!

April 17, 2008 By 4 Comments

TylenolWhen I was a little girl I could not/would not swallow pills. To take non-liquid medicine was quite a chore of crushing and then mixing. A spoon full of jelly was probably my favorite; and I remember taking crushed medicine with peanut butter, applesauce, even a little maple syrup.

My friend wanted to help me take pills by just swallowing them with water. I’m guessing I was about 10 and she was about 13…

I had spent the night and we were doing things around her neighborhood when we ended up at her grandmother’s to water plants or something. If I remember right her grandmother wasn’t there and she was helping take care of the house.

So I had a headache; her grandma had medicine; and she had determination to teach me to swallow a whole pill.

She presented me with a pill and a huge glass of water. In my memory it was a really big amount of water because I didn’t care much for plain water.

According to her coaching I threw the pill as far back in my mouth as I could.

“Now just drink the water.” I still hear her voice in my brain.

I took two big swigs and showed her the pill.

“Throw it back in and drink some more.”

I took about 4 big swigs before I opened my mouth and showed her the pill reclining on my tongue. It was now starting to dissolve.

“Just drink all the water and don’t stop until it goes down.”

I ran out of water and she let me spit the disgusting thing out.

I eventually swallowed pills whole when I had antibiotics, or my wisdom teeth out, or somewhere along the line when I had a prescription. I still have to be careful or I’ll gag on my vitamins.

When I do I can picture my friend shaking her head at me and saying, “You really should learn how to just swallow them. It’s much easier.”

Sure.

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