5 tips for giving your kid eye drops
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Every Wednesday, Lily comes home from her swimming class complaining about how her eyes are sore from the chlorine in the pool.
Her eyes are often red and irritated, as if she?s just spent the night with Lindsay Lohan on the Vegas strip. When she goes to school for afternoon kindergarten on Wednesday’s, Sonia usually has to send along a cold wet cloth in Lily?s school bag, so she can get some relief in the classroom. (And yes, we?ve tried goggles with Lily, but we?ve yet to find a pair that she?s comfortable with).
Last week, things got so bad with her eyes that Sonia decided to go to the drug store to see if there were any eye drops that were safe for children to use. Sonia came home with some child-friendly eye drops, but then we had a conundrum: Who was going to administer the drops to Lily" Giving your child eye drops is one of the most annoying and unpleasant tasks in parenthood, because children are never cooperative when they?re being given eye drops for the first time. I would probably have better luck taking our cat?s temperature using a rectal thermometre.
Modern medicine has come a long way in making things more child-friendly in the last 25 years. When I was growing up, there was only one flavour of Tylenol available for kids. It wasn?t chewable and if you didn?t swallow it correctly, it tasted like a crude paste of baking soda and wet cardboard. Now, there are dozens of tutti-frutti flavours of children?s medicine, so giving your k...
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