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LeftishBrit

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5. Agreed...

Reply to longship (Reply #3)

Sat Feb 2, 2013, 01:52 PM

Feb 2013

and would add that over-praising a child for taking nasty-tasting medicine can have its dangers. When my mother was about 3 she was given quinine, which apparently tastes horrible (I've never taken it) and her mother kept telling her what a 'good girl' she was for taking it. Then one day she did something naughty and wanted to make herself into a good girl, so she swallowed about 30 quinine tablets, and was rushed to hospital having convulsions. Obviously she recovered, or I wouldn't be here, but she was always careful to keep medicines out of my reach when I was little!

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Triaminic, Theraflu Recalled After Children Poisoned [View all] Eugene Jan 2013 OP

Probably a good idea to keep all medicine abelenkpe Jan 2013 #1

I always put meds up high where my kids could not reach them. appleannie1 Jan 2013 #2

Medicines and children do not get along. longship Jan 2013 #3

My cousin ate almost an entire bottle of baby aspirin back in the 1960's, cause they tasted so good. Mnemosyne Jan 2013 #4

Agreed... LeftishBrit Feb 2013 #5