Suppositories
January 7, 2008
There is something I would like to ask you girls. Are doctors and pharmacists in your countries as obsessed with suppositories as the ones in France?
For whatever is wrong (or even right) with your child, there seems to be something that you can stick up their bum. I have been prescribed cold medicine and even homeopathic teething remedies as a suppository. As for measuring temperature, forget about the notion of measuring it through the ears or the forehead — a little bit of Vaseline and off you go!
To my sensibilities it is a tad invasive, but to be fair, it always seems to work well…
-Emilie
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Yes, I know what you’re talking about. Temperature is supposed to be taken bum-wise in the Netherlands. In London, I think they consider that to be child molestation! So I bought an expensive ear thermometer, but what a *^$#^ instrument that was – it gave me different temperatures all the time!! So, I ended up doing it the old fashioned way – more precise if you ask me!
When I went to the pharmacy in London for paracetamol suppositories, they had to order them for me!!! Here in the Netherlands, they are readily available and very common. But cold medicine? Homeopathic teething remedies? No, we’re not THAT anal!
It’s funny because the first time I ever had to use suppositories was in Paris when my toddler was sick! And then again in Italy when he was sick again. At first I was sort of grossed out by the whole idea, but it’s actually easier and less messy (which you know I care about deeply)!
They are not common in the U.S. and also not here in London.
I think in Italy we may be using suppositories as much as the french do.
I used all of the above, yes…homeopathic teething remedies too.
And concerning the thermometers. I had bought a forehead infrared tricky tool…and brought it back because each time was reporting a different temperature. I had no time to compute averages and do statistics. Now we do the rear end method…