My 7 Year Old Daughter
Posted over a year ago
my 7 year old daughter takes 0.2mg at night so she can sleep but in the last month she has being going though mood swings could this has something to do with this pills.
l need sleep please help !
Propsguy - wait! did i read this right? your daughter is 7 (!!!) and is taking sleeping pills to help her sleeep????? haven't seven year olds been sleeping for centuries without drugs? she doesn't even have the adult stresses that grown-ups use as an excuse for not being ablt to do what comes naturally without chemical aids.
if she gets enough exercise during the day, she should be tuckered out enough to fall asleep. give her a glass of warm milk and send her to bed without drugs
11976 - l was just fellowing what my doctor said you think they know what they there talking about but l guess not l will try the warm milk and all the other stuff you had said hope l get my little girl back.
l didn't think she needed this drug she just has trouble falling asleep and then she gets tried though out school.
thanks for everyones help !
777 - I thought I had seen some unusual posts in this website .. . BUT, . . . GOOD GRIEF, a 7 year old is taking sleeping pills !!!! UNBELIEVABLE !!!. This is why that I spend my time to encourage people to use natural products/alternatives . . . . .instead of taking drugs.!!!
777 - 11976. . . . you should report your dr. and find another one. I know drs. are drug-happy, BUT, to prescribe drugs for a 7 year old. !!??? Did your dr. prescribe drugs for you, also ?
Propsguy - i'm so glad i was not the only person STUNNED by this post! and i'm so glad that mom is reconsidering. but here's what i find disturbing- mom, you said "you think they know what they there talking about." you also said that you didn't think your daughter needed the drug in the first place and you went against your own mothering instincts in favor of the doctor's "superior" wisdom. try to always remember that doctors, while really smart, only know what they learned in school and what they learned was how to recognize symtoms and perscribe drugs to deal with them. they didn't learn ANYTHING about nutrition or old folk remedies.
all the incentives are in favor of them knowing less and less about the patient (HMOs dictate a 7 minute visit) and solving problems quickly with a drug.
maybe your daughter is worried, maybe she needed to talk to someone, maybe her teacher is boring, maybe her body clock is wound differently, maybe her diet is full of stimulants- but getting to the bottom of this would take time and there's no incentive for the doctor.
you have to remember that there is one drug company sales rep for every 6 doctors in this country!!! bringing over free lunches for the office staff, bringing free pens, free klenex, free samples. when you come in with a problem, chances are good that the doctor is going to perscribe a drug from the company that just bought his lunch!
over 100,000 americans die each year from the EXPECTED side effects of PROPERLY PERSCRIBED drugs. since we just passed the anniversary of 9/11, let me use it to make a poin- how many people died on 9/11? 3000 roughly? compared to 100,000 people A YEAR, it's nothing!
and yet doctors keep handing out this crap as if it was candy and drug companies keep cranking out more and more drugs for sometimes made up conditions.
now we have to sedate children! what ever happened to "boys willl be boys?" aren't children by nature hyperactive? maybe kids shouldn't be made to sit in school for 6 hrs straight. maybe they should have a class and then a 1/2 of physical activity followed by another class, etc. but why change the institution to conform to the needs of the children when you can just sedate them? this is why they nap in other countries after lunch, why they divide the day up into segments that accomodate human beings, instead of the other way around!
remember mom, that you have to wean her off this drug slowly; you can't just take her off it abruptly. also, she may have some rebound effects- don't panic and go looking for another drug to combat those. just let them run their course.
also, your daughter is 7. in two years, she'll be 9, prime Gardasil age. i hope when your doctor gives you the hard sell for the vaccine, you'lll think back to this and spare your daughter that outrage
Anglia - My gosh! Im so sorry to hear that your Doctor actually prescribed something like that to your daughter...whose 7. i mean is this doctor free? You should definitely look into seeing another doctor becasue clearly this one doesnt know anything and is putting your daughter at risk and God knows who else he's treating. Obviously she's geting mood swings because thses sleeping tablets are not for kids. By the way that warm milk before bed really works i've been doing it for a while now when i have trouble sleeping .Even when my nephew isn't sleeping well i give him a warm glass and he ends up falling asleep naturally. Please i urge you to take the advice everyone is giving you here on this forum and try the other alternatives other than what that crazy doctor recommended. Hope everything works out well. please post it so we can know. Anglia
777 - propsguy . . . . . I agree with you . . . TOTALLY. . . . .I think the "Mom" need classes on child nutrition, etc. This post is very disturbing . . . it borders to make call to a children protection agency, if I knew the "Mom".
777 - propsguy . . . . My mission is to help people to use natural products/alternatives . . . .instead of drugs. Unfortunately, I have personal experience of taking statins and the many side effects. That's why I have spent countless hours to research on drugs/chemicals and the negatives. Sadly, I no longer trust most drs., since that's all they know/care is to push drugs . . .even to children. !!!
Take care.
Propsguy - 777- i understand you. we are soul mates in that regard. our generation of americans are the most drug abusing people to ever exist on the planet. we put people in jail for using marijuana but we routinely drug ourselves and our children for made up conditions like PMDD, AADD, ADHD, etc.
imagine what the future will be like when the cumulative side effects of all these drugs that people have been taking since childhood start showing up. there's no insurance, medicare or social security system that will be able to afford to pay for the care these people will need. increased rates of ALS because of Statin use, all those 16 yr old girls incapacitated thanks to Gardasil, people with lifetime disabilities courtesy of Levaquin... people who shoulda, coulda, woulda lived long healthy lives.
all so drug companies can make tons of money!
777 - propsguy . . . . well, atleast we have the satisfaction to know that we are trying to spread the word about the danger of drugs and the drs./drug co's who don't care if people suffer . . . . except how much $$ they can make.
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