By Shaina | Leave A Comment
As the mother of a third grader, just like any parent with school-age kids, there are times when I have to decide if my daughter is healthy enough to go to school. She recently had an earache that was bothering her, and as she sat on the couch looking sleepy, I found myself questioning whether she was really in any shape to be attending school that day.
To make it easier for parents to determine when they should keep their children home, Triaminic has partnered with the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) to create Sick Day Guidelines to make that decision an easier one for parents.
If you find yourself with a sick child, relieving some of their aches and pains is no doubt high on your priority list. I recently had the opportunity to try Children’s Triaminic Thin Strips®. Thin Strips® are dissolvable strips (similar to Listerine’s Oral Care Strips) that you place on your child’s tongue.
One of the things I love most about them is that they come in premeasured doses. There’s never any worry about whether you’re giving your child the right amount of cold medicine. You just count out the number of strips based on your child’s age and weight. The possibility of a cold medicine overdose is not something you need when faced with the stress of having a sick child.
In all honesty, I have doled out cold medicine exactly two times in the last four years. I’m not big on giving medication unless it’s absolutely necessary. However, I do think the convenience of non-liquid cold medicine and how easy it is to figure and measure the correct dose of the Thin Strips® makes it a wonderful choice for the times when I would give them something.
With all the children’s cold medicine overdose news lately, I can definitely appreciate an easy way to ensure my children are getting just the right amount of medicine when they’re sick. It’s also a great alternative to drippy, sticky syrups that are a pain to get out of the clothes they inevitably end up on.
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Having the doses already measured out is a huge benefit. Especially with kids, because you measure out liquid into that little cup or spoon and you know they don’t get it all.
Schools around here have been just awful about telling parents to send their kids to school if they’re sick! A little sniffle, okay, I can live with that, but the schools here pretty much want you to send your child to school unless they are in a hospital bed. They want the high attendance rating and as many stadardized tests as they can grab from their little fingers to get funding.
I choose not to send my kids when they’re sick, I think it’s a pointless act, because what the heck is a sick child that can’t concentrate going to learn? I’ve actually had the school call me and complain about my keeping my boys home. My oldest was sick with bronchitis during SOL testing and the principal called me not once, but three times asking me to bring him in for his tests.
Oh did she ever get a piece of my mind. I told her I would not, and he would not make up the test and take away from his regular class study, and if she would stop telling people to send their kids to school sick he probably wouldn’t have gotten sick in the first place.
Ugh – what I really wanted to say is the thin strips and products like them are great for not having to worry if you’re child is getting the right dosage. I hate giving medicine unless I absolutely have to as well, and when it does come down to handing out those doses I do worry is it enough, is it too much, did he get all the purple stuff out of the spoon? things like this take the worry out of the equation.