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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 294182" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Herbal options - lavender or rose oil shouldwork. Levender ischeaper and not so girly, I might make up a lvender bath oil for difficult child 3 and make him have a nightly bath. Every bit of help...</p><p></p><p>Trish, it's not banned from Australia but it isn't available through any drug company. We get ours from a compounding pharmacist made into a long-acting form. It costs us A$74 for 100 tablets. It has to be prescribed, there is a prescription number on the label but because it's been compounded, there is no TGA number on the label.</p><p></p><p>You may be able to get a short-acting form more cheaply, but go carefully. Make sure it has either a pharmacy label on it (from a pharmacy you know and trust, as we trust ours) or a TGA number on it somewhere. ALL drugs as well as alternative remedies sold in Australia have to have a TGA number. Anything which has a thearpeutic claim must by law have a TGA "R" number (R= Registered) while alternative treatments have a TGA "L" number (L = Listed; ie TGA knows about it, but allows its sale providing no therapeutic claims are made since there has not been any recognised testing).</p><p></p><p>The trouble with anybody ordering drugs etc from another country, even a reputable country like Australia, NZ or the US - the person sending it out of his country does not have to actually put any active ingredient in his bottles because you have zero recourse across country borders. And few people have any way to KNOW if what is claimed to be in the bottle, really is. You might order melatonin and get powdered talc instead. Or melatonin, but 1/10 the claimed strength. Even if it has the same drug company label as availabe in its home country - counterfeit drugs are more widely available than the real things and more enthusiastically promoted. It's easier to get the wrong thing than the right one, but in the same country a company can get prosecuted for pulling a stunt like that.</p><p></p><p>I think I'll bring difficult child 3's dosage forward.</p><p></p><p>by the way, he went to bed half an hour ago. He began heading for bed at 11 pm, but it took him the next half hour to tell me all the thoughts buzzing around in his head that he just HAD to tell me...</p><p></p><p>I'm tired...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 294182, member: 1991"] Herbal options - lavender or rose oil shouldwork. Levender ischeaper and not so girly, I might make up a lvender bath oil for difficult child 3 and make him have a nightly bath. Every bit of help... Trish, it's not banned from Australia but it isn't available through any drug company. We get ours from a compounding pharmacist made into a long-acting form. It costs us A$74 for 100 tablets. It has to be prescribed, there is a prescription number on the label but because it's been compounded, there is no TGA number on the label. You may be able to get a short-acting form more cheaply, but go carefully. Make sure it has either a pharmacy label on it (from a pharmacy you know and trust, as we trust ours) or a TGA number on it somewhere. ALL drugs as well as alternative remedies sold in Australia have to have a TGA number. Anything which has a thearpeutic claim must by law have a TGA "R" number (R= Registered) while alternative treatments have a TGA "L" number (L = Listed; ie TGA knows about it, but allows its sale providing no therapeutic claims are made since there has not been any recognised testing). The trouble with anybody ordering drugs etc from another country, even a reputable country like Australia, NZ or the US - the person sending it out of his country does not have to actually put any active ingredient in his bottles because you have zero recourse across country borders. And few people have any way to KNOW if what is claimed to be in the bottle, really is. You might order melatonin and get powdered talc instead. Or melatonin, but 1/10 the claimed strength. Even if it has the same drug company label as availabe in its home country - counterfeit drugs are more widely available than the real things and more enthusiastically promoted. It's easier to get the wrong thing than the right one, but in the same country a company can get prosecuted for pulling a stunt like that. I think I'll bring difficult child 3's dosage forward. by the way, he went to bed half an hour ago. He began heading for bed at 11 pm, but it took him the next half hour to tell me all the thoughts buzzing around in his head that he just HAD to tell me... I'm tired... Marg [/QUOTE]
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