A Miracle Medicine

I'm baaaaacccckkkkkk...... From a short vacation. And now it's back to business!

For anyone who has read any of my posts, you might have figured out that I'm kind of in to alternatives to 'modern' medicines. And I really am. If I can find something that doesn't need a prescription or over the counter drugs, and it works, I'm all for it.

But sometimes that isn't the case.

Saturday I got my four month old grandson for a few days. He won't go back home until Thursday, as a matter of fact. I love the kid to pieces, but I'm not that all that thrilled with watching a baby. I loved everything about babies when my own kids were infants, but I don't love it all now. Well, I have to admit that anything to do with the nose and diaper end of them never thrilled me.

But they thrill me a lot less now. Because I've developed a weak stomach over the years.

Tonight I wound up at the emergency room with Alex, who apparently had a bad reaction to his rice cereal, added to his formul to help reduce a reflux issue. Anyway, he had a serious gas thing going on, screaming for a couple of hours. And I got to deal with the nose thing, as well as getting thrown up on.

Yay.

After the doctor made sure there was nothing serious wrong, a nurse came in with Tylenol and a little brown bottle of something for the gas.

She took a very tiny dropper out of the brown bottle and put four whole drops in his mouth. I'm thinking dang! Four drops? You've got to be kidding me! How about half the bottle! This kid is in pain and he needs something that's going to actually work!

But, lo and behold, it did. In less than five minutes, Alex was sound asleep. And an hour later, he's still sleeping very peacefully. From exhaustion, I'm sure. You can't cry like that for as long as he did and not be a tad on the tired side!

So I have to say that there are some times when medicine is very appropriate. In fact, enough so that I'm headed to the store first thing in the morning to get a bottle of the stuff. I'm not taking a chance on this happening again before he goes home Thursday and not be prepared.

I'm also rather partial to another over the counter thing...and that's Advil. I try not to take it very often but just popped four. After two hours of having a baby flopped over my forearm-which was the only position remotely close to comfortable to him (and even more so when I was standing up!), my back, shoulders and arms need some quick relief, too!

And now you know, if you have a baby with gas (and I think they said colic, but don't quote me on that), there is something out there that works fast and works well. I don't know the name of it-the nurse didn't either (it's a different brand than the one she used), but your pharmacist will be able to tell you.

And now, given that it's almost two in the morning, I'm off to bed. So Alex can wake us up bright and early for a bottle.

Yawn.