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Wife is out of town... Monday I provided my 18 month old daughter her normal dose of benedryl -- 1/2 teaspoon. .. I placed the bottle down on the kitchen counter as there was a problem in the living room with the 5 and 3 yo's ..... Then... in a flash my 18 month old grabbed the bottle.... I hear a slight baby whimper coming from the kithen and find the bottle half empty and the childrens benedryl running down her chin, and shirt.
I FREAKED
I called the pediatrian. Next door neighbor is a nurse... they ran all kinds of calcs.... amount left in bottle; anticipated amount on her shirt and undershirt.... ml's this and kilo's this.... was she safe .... Yes, volume was not sufficient to cause problems. Did I not sleep that night... Yes... I was up all nite checked on her 10 times that nite... man was she pissed I kept waking her.
What a shitty nite that was. Lessoned learned... ALWAYS place cap on meds after putting in dispensing cup.
I will have to provide CAP an new pic of myself as my hair is completely grey now.
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same with babies in a bath ... not even for 1 sec can you leave them for any reason what so ever ....
and oddly enough - it happens over and over ...... and the worse happens - or close to it .."Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes (1596-1650) -
btw -- i 'm glad she is alright ... must of been pretty sleepy though ....
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes (1596-1650) -
Actually that is what I thought ... but an overdose of benedryl causes the opposite reaction... they get wired... tremors, shaking, racing heart, etc.Originally Posted by BJ_M
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Master of Time & Space
- Feb 2004
- Denver, CO United States
Whew! A close one
I'm glad she's OK. Bet you never do that again
Don't beat yourself up over it though ...just use the lesson you learned the hard way, and thank the lucky stars that it wasn't something more harmful that she drank.
At certain ages kids seem hell-bent on self-destruction. They'll make you age prematurely.
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OK...I'm back.
Had to HUG my son after reading that one.
Of course now he is pissed at me....he was watching cartoons....
Glad she is OK....I don't know what I would do if something happened to my son. -
In her little 18 month old voice I remember her saying "Yeeesssss" when I asked if she "drank a lot of it" --- I was grasping for straws as the freaking began.... Whew... that was close... and wife had called at 9:00 pm the nite of the incident and I opted NOT to tell her... I waited until the next morning.. knowing, from Washington DC, she would have drilled me for 3 hours on what happened.... I was stressed out enough.
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I'll bet you were sweating on that call. I've been round friends houses when their kids have failed to arrive after football practice - mucho panic as we pile into various motors to go searching. The little bleeders always arrive minutes after we leaveOriginally Posted by Dr. DOS
Buddha says that, while he may show you the way, only you can truly save yourself, proving once and for all that he's a lazy, fat bastard. -
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- Aug 2004
- somewhere in time & space
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Damn ..I an glad everything is ok ..I would just about also went crazy..just something to keep in mind for all of us , we heve of will be around this kind of situation, either friend's ; children, grandchildren ; relatives .....or our own....
well I am glad she is ok ..you learned a valuable lesson , as we all hopefully also ...and like the GI Joe would say " and knowing is half the battle "
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As a child, I ate broken glass and suffered no problems. I also pulled a pot of boiling water down on top of myself, again I was OK aside from a few minor burns. No matter how careful parents are, they can't monitor their children all the time. Children have in-built, weapons-grade software that allows them to identify tiny lapses in their parents' concentration, and they quickly calculate how to best bring harm to themselves in this time. They carry a database in them that tells them what is most worrying to drink/eat/touch, and do it time and again.
Amazing how we all survive!
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Master of Time & Space
- Feb 2004
- Denver, CO United States
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At age three I crawled under the garden fence and took a good long pull on a jug of concentrated liquid insecticide used for flowers. Got rushed to the ER and my stomach pumped. Turns out it was the one insecticide on the market that wasn't harmful to humans.
To this day, I've never had an infestation problem
At age 5 my dad was in the kitchen and happened to glance out of the window. My mom wondered why he turned as white as a sheet and literally flew out of the back door.
What he saw was me climbing up the utility pole, about to touch the high voltage feed for the transformer
I was determined to kill myself, but my partents, ever-vigilant, foiled me at every turn
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Since we are starting the 'how did you almost die as a kid' thread I thought I would throw in my three cents.
I was 8 ... 'making a fort' in the backyard behind a wooden fence that my brother also used as a backstop to his 'target' (archery) arrows. You remember those metal tipped arrows used in school for archery practice. He also knew I and another friend were back there. Well, SFB (shit for brains) took out an arrow with only two feathers and shot it at the target... it went around the fence and hit me in the side of the head. 1 inch below the eye ... cheek bone area. It hit my cheek bone and slid down and struck a molar. Anyhow I was bitting on the tip of the arrow.
That was his 'freak out' moment (and I guess my Mom's too. "Mom... Tim got shot in the head with an arrow" -
Sorry to hear about the nightmare Dr. D. Glad to hear she's alright. I had something similar happen to my daughter about 10 months ago. She was at her grandparent's house (both of them prescription-holics), when my wife heard her spitting. When she checked on her, it seems she found one of the many pills they seem to drop on the floor, or in the couch cushions, etc., and decided to pop it in her mouth (of course). Turns out it was Valium! Luckily, she didn't like the taste of it, but enough disolved in her mouth to scare the crap out of us. It took all of 30 seconds to get Poison Control on the phone.
Luckily, she suffered no effects from it! Ease up on yourself Dr. Dos - that's what happened with three adults watching her! -
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- Aug 2004
- somewhere in time & space
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well mine would be a long,,long list ...but a few would be
when I was a about 12-18 months ols I almost flew out of a ferris wheel ride ( cheap carnival) out of my mother's hand but my uncle sitting beside my mom grabbed me by my shit..a few years later I swallowed a mint ( you know the white with red on the sides ) and it got stuck...mom with her last resort fliped me upside down and slappped my back to pop it out .
and a few years later I was tring to keep warm in a next door abandoned house with burning coals and I fell asleep, they said they had to wake me up due to carbon monoxide and thats only my pre 5 years old....it gets better when I got older ...
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- Mar 2003
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You know the same thing happened to my wife. She sat down a bottle of Jack Daniels came back and it was gone, but no one called the doctor to see if I was alright
Happy the little one is alright DOS...but did I read where you have a 3, a 5 and an 18 month old??? Jesus Christ man, give your wife a break would you
Keeping track of that many small children is like trying herd kittens.
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