Piriton for an 11 month old?

[erikab922]

LO has chicken pox and I fear the itchies will start over the weekend. I have the oats for the bath and the Virasoothe for the spots, but just in case I need to bring the big guns out I'm wondering if it's OK to give LO some Piriton. It's for 1 year and up, LO is almost 11 months. What do you think?

 

[Banshee]

I think our LOs must be almost exactly the same age and I'm in the same situation. Personally I'm not going to give him piriton. If he gets really bad I might give the doctor a call and see what they say...

 

[erikab922]

When we saw the GP he said 'you can try Piriton but it didn't really work for my boys', he knows how old she is so I took that as a tacit approval - going to see how bad she gets, will only seriously consider it if it's keeping her from sleeping and we've tried everything else.

 

[Banshee]

It's tricky isn't it cause half of me wonders how different ds2 is going to be in a month physically and also you kinda think the pharmaceutical companies are covering themselves so I don't know. I'm not a rule breaker lol. Extra tempting as I already have a bottle as ds1 is just recovering from chicken pox and he had it...

 

[MrsPear]

Aww your poor LO, get well soon! Some babies don't get too rough with it, so you might be lucky and not need it- fingers crossed anyway. (Just as an aside, I probably would give it, but i don't have any medical back up whatsoever for that and I haven't tried it.)

 

[Mrsmitch80]

Hi, I'd give it. It really helped my 3 year old when she had chicken pox and after each of her 5 major ops between the ages of 6 and 18 months she was given it because morphine causes itching. She was dosed up in it for days on end from 6 months so it can't be that bad xxx