Is it just me? OTC & allergy meds
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Is it just me? OTC & allergy meds
| Wed, 03-12-2008 - 12:22pm |
I spent about an hour yesterday calling compounding pharmacies to find one that could make a children's ibuprofen and mucinex for DS that wouldn't have corn syrup in it. What a fiasco. But the pharmacy that can do it, requires a prescription. I called the allergist's (DAN! doctor) office and asked the receptionist if I should have them do it or our ped. She said definitely them. I left a message with the doctor's assistant and the doctor called me personally and was all confused as to why I would want a special OTC med. I told him to avoid any allergy triggers and he asked if I'd checked the OTC ones. WHAT??? He's the allergist - the specialist!! Shouldn't he be telling us to avoid them because of all the corn in them??? I cannot be the only parent with a corn allergic kid to go through his practice!! Do other parents just not give their kids tylenol or motrin? Or do they just give them corn ones and work through the reactions?? Ugh! So then he tells me he can't really prescribe it because he has no idea what dosage to give. He's an MD! I know he's a specialist, but shouldn't he still be able to pull out the same chart the ped will use to figure that out? So now I have to call our ped and ask her to do it, but it didn't seem to occur to the allergist that he never bothered to send her anything to fill her in on his allergies. Luckily I made copies of everything for her so she does have it. I swear!! Shouldn't the allergist be telling us what we need to avoid and watch out for rather than the other way around?!
