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difficult child's sick for about 6 weeks. Help - long
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 228496" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Advil and tylenol are not meant to be taken daily for extended periods. Not just the rebound headache issue, but there are other problems they can cause. Stomach trouble is one of them, and it can happen when given with food or without food.</p><p></p><p>The eustachian tubes are not somewhere they can get to and put tubes in. They simply are not in a place that can be done. use sudafed (you have to give your drivers license to the pharmacist to get it, but it is still with-o prescription - just tracked to cut down on meth production) and benadryl, but NOT benadryl alone. Using just benadryl can dry things out too much and then things stick together and the natural mucus gets too thick. Using the sudafed (generic is OK, but our ENT says the alternate sudafed that you don't sign for doesn't work nearly as well) will help keep things moving. Mucinex is also very good to add to this. It should help get the eustachian tubes opened up which may help some of the other things.</p><p></p><p>I have suffered dizziness, ringing in my ears, terrible irritation at the sounds of some flourescent lights (my parents had to completely replace a light fixture in their kitchen because it gave me terrible headaches and the sound it made drove me absolutely batty - and I was an ADULT at this point, NOT a kid.) and have had many many problems with eustachian tubes blocking, etc...</p><p></p><p>Get him to drink as much water as he can. Yes, he will ahve to go to the bathroom more often, but it may be the ONLY way to deal with the ear problems. I was able to avoid sinus surgery several times by upping my water intake to over a gallon a day. That done with the benadyl-sudafed-mucinex routine was very effective. </p><p></p><p>Some medications don't work when you revisit them, or they work differently. So the lamictal and topamax were good to try, as they had worked previously, but his body had changed so they didn't work this time.</p><p></p><p>I DO think anxiety is behind a lot of this. If he can learn ways to handle anxiety better it will help him even if his problems are all caused by very real problems. Has he tried the gluten and casein free diet? It can be done, and though maybe not very exciting, it can really help sometimes. It may be time to try it.</p><p></p><p>I am sorry he is so scared about dieing. That is hard to go through at any age.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 228496, member: 1233"] Advil and tylenol are not meant to be taken daily for extended periods. Not just the rebound headache issue, but there are other problems they can cause. Stomach trouble is one of them, and it can happen when given with food or without food. The eustachian tubes are not somewhere they can get to and put tubes in. They simply are not in a place that can be done. use sudafed (you have to give your drivers license to the pharmacist to get it, but it is still with-o prescription - just tracked to cut down on meth production) and benadryl, but NOT benadryl alone. Using just benadryl can dry things out too much and then things stick together and the natural mucus gets too thick. Using the sudafed (generic is OK, but our ENT says the alternate sudafed that you don't sign for doesn't work nearly as well) will help keep things moving. Mucinex is also very good to add to this. It should help get the eustachian tubes opened up which may help some of the other things. I have suffered dizziness, ringing in my ears, terrible irritation at the sounds of some flourescent lights (my parents had to completely replace a light fixture in their kitchen because it gave me terrible headaches and the sound it made drove me absolutely batty - and I was an ADULT at this point, NOT a kid.) and have had many many problems with eustachian tubes blocking, etc... Get him to drink as much water as he can. Yes, he will ahve to go to the bathroom more often, but it may be the ONLY way to deal with the ear problems. I was able to avoid sinus surgery several times by upping my water intake to over a gallon a day. That done with the benadyl-sudafed-mucinex routine was very effective. Some medications don't work when you revisit them, or they work differently. So the lamictal and topamax were good to try, as they had worked previously, but his body had changed so they didn't work this time. I DO think anxiety is behind a lot of this. If he can learn ways to handle anxiety better it will help him even if his problems are all caused by very real problems. Has he tried the gluten and casein free diet? It can be done, and though maybe not very exciting, it can really help sometimes. It may be time to try it. I am sorry he is so scared about dieing. That is hard to go through at any age. [/QUOTE]
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