the miracle of tylenol?

[lacyndarella]

Okay is this physcological? While Jimmie was on the ACTH he would get very adjitated some nights. I didn't know if it was the ACTH or teething...so I would give him a little tylenol and he would immediately stop crying and go to sleep...immediately...the second the tylenol was in his mouth. And it still works. If he is restless and can't seem to get comfortable and is pulling my hair out of my head because he wants to rub it and whining and gnawing on his finger...a little tylenol, he immediately starts sucking his finger instead of chewing, he gently rubs my hair instead of yanking it, and the whining stops, he closes his eyes and goes to sleep! As soon as he gets the tylenol in his mouth. I try to save it for times he's really adjitated because I don't want him to have that much tylenol...but wow.

[Carly'sMa]

When Carly was an infant, she had lot of ear infections. One time we were in the doctor's office and they gave her motrin for the pain. She stopped crying immediately. The doctor looked at her and told her it could not work that fast. There must be something which is soothing to the throat when these meds go down. That's all I could suspect.

[langansmom]

Langan has the same reaction. I just assumed it was b/c she knew there would be relief soon from having it in the past, but maybe there's more to it. Hmm....

[Little JT]

Neither of my kids seem to react much to the liquid tylenol or motrin, but if we give them a suppository pain reliever/fever reducer, it works like magic! It's easier too, at least in Adam's case, because he can't spit it out.