Reply #8: This deserves a kick

[motocicleta]

How many people have said to me, when I express my disinterest in using such medicines for my child, "Well, if the FDA approves of it, it must be OK, right? I mean, they do studies about these things" like I am some Luddite moron. Wrong.

I stay away from shit like OTC cough medicine in general; if a doctor says to, I may do it, after weighing all options, but not just because some pharma company wants me to. And in fact, no doctor has told me to. Once when my daughter was 8 months she had a gnarly fever, 105 I think, and we took her to the ER. They basically said it was all natural and that the fever would deal with the problem, but they gave her some Children's Tylenol anyway. We bit our tongues and let them give it to her. We went home and she puked up all the medicine, and the fever dealt with the problem. What a surprise. Nature works better than pharma.

Thanks for posting this, acmavm.