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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 495710" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Janet, lol! Actually whiskey is the best cough suppressant. Followed by opiates (codeine, morphine, etc...) I can't STAND liquid cold medications. But I agree on reg old sudafed. Dang addicts, make life hard for the rest of us with colds. </p><p></p><p>The docs here won't give a kid pain medications even for really BAD things like broken bones. But let them have a cough and you get 8-10-14 oz of liquid codeine and if you ask why they are all over you about addiction not being the issue, etc... So a kid can hobble on a cracked leg with aleve but nothing else and let them have a cough - that MOM hears at home and no one at the doctors' office ever hears and they get all the codeine they want. Makes NO sense. Of course it IS good for coughs, but i have seen parents parade kids through the doctor's office wehre I KNOW the kid never coughed one time and they give them all the codeine they can. It is another reason why we see a country doctor NOT the in town peds practice. Our doctor will give us codeine for coughs, but he has to HEAR it and see signs of a problem, not just have mom say. He trusts mom, will go by my say so on a lot of things. Just not addictive medications. Plus he actually can reliable quote studies on various things including home remedies, whether various medications work, etc..... I don't always like what he says, but I always respect his knowledge because I have double checked the research he has discussed on quite a few things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 495710, member: 1233"] Janet, lol! Actually whiskey is the best cough suppressant. Followed by opiates (codeine, morphine, etc...) I can't STAND liquid cold medications. But I agree on reg old sudafed. Dang addicts, make life hard for the rest of us with colds. The docs here won't give a kid pain medications even for really BAD things like broken bones. But let them have a cough and you get 8-10-14 oz of liquid codeine and if you ask why they are all over you about addiction not being the issue, etc... So a kid can hobble on a cracked leg with aleve but nothing else and let them have a cough - that MOM hears at home and no one at the doctors' office ever hears and they get all the codeine they want. Makes NO sense. Of course it IS good for coughs, but i have seen parents parade kids through the doctor's office wehre I KNOW the kid never coughed one time and they give them all the codeine they can. It is another reason why we see a country doctor NOT the in town peds practice. Our doctor will give us codeine for coughs, but he has to HEAR it and see signs of a problem, not just have mom say. He trusts mom, will go by my say so on a lot of things. Just not addictive medications. Plus he actually can reliable quote studies on various things including home remedies, whether various medications work, etc..... I don't always like what he says, but I always respect his knowledge because I have double checked the research he has discussed on quite a few things. [/QUOTE]
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