Last Tuesday I took Lucy to the doctor to have her checked out. She had croup over Christmas and ever since then there were a few times when she's cry or get upset and she'd sound kinda wheezy. I just wasn't for sure she was over it completely.
I'm glad I took her because my mommy instincts were right and the doctor said her breathing still sounded "off". That's not the term she used, but you get my point. :)
To try and get this cleared up once and for all, the doctor wanted Lucy to take Singular for a month. Singular is an asthma/allergy medicine that's approved for children as young as 2. In my younger days, I tried Singular as well. I never felt any different with it and so didn't take it for very long.
We brought home a bunch of samples of Singular and I started giving Lucy the one pill a day at bedtime like I was instructed.
Fast forward a week and here we are. It's been one heck of a week with Lucy and her behavior. Last Wednesday night we had a horrible time getting Lucy to go to bed, something we've never had a problem with before. She has been unusually grumpy and cranky and everything has seemed to set her off. I looked at Dan yesterday and asked him if it were just me or is Lucy a different child. He agreed that she was not herself.
Today wasn't any better. I had just been telling myself that it's the age. Lucy is 2 and she's going through a phase and that's all it was. But I was missing my happy, cooperative toddler.
I started thinking today about something a friend of mine had mentioned in passing on Facebook. Maybe this crazy behavior was being caused by this new medicine she was on. Afterall, this past week, she has just not been herself.
I was discussing this with Dan and he went online to look at side effects of Singular. Turns out that one of the more rare side effects is aggression, easy aggitaion, and mood swings to name a few. He also came across a blog about the effects this medicine has had on other people. It wasn't pretty. I made him stop reading the posts because they were so upsetting.
Needless to say, I did not give her the pill before bedtime tonight. I can't help but think that this medince has contributed to some of the behavior issues we've had with Lucy this past week. It's scary. As a parent you trust the doctors and you want to do what's best for your child. But I can't give her this pill. I plan on calling the doctor in the next few days after I get a chance to observe her behavior.
We also had to start giving her breathing treatments Friday. Here's a picture of her in her "fishy mask" After some convincing she finally let us put this up to her face. She didn't like the idea of it at first.
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The fishy mask is so cute! We have a rhino/dinosaur looking type one. William NEVER, EVER let us put the mask on his face, we always had to just blow it on him....as the doctor and my mom (a nurse) says "any medicine is better than none". At least William is now old enough to use the apparatus that you put in your mouth and breaths through it. Now Josiah has always wore the mask, but if it has been awhile it takes a few tries to get it on all the way and him to leave it alone.
And i have read all the side effects of singulair, but as you posted it is a rare side effect. Though that side effect only usually comes when one has been on it for a long period of time which is why both our dr's only prescribe it for a month or two at a time and then take them off of it. When William was 2 we actually had the opposite effect. He became an Angel on it and a holy terror when we took him off of it. We think it was because it actually made him feel good again! Now I couldn't find anywhere on the net that had this side effect. I talked to Pastor Matt about it and he also became moody when he went off of it, he thinks it was withdraw.
Both boys have been on it multiple times and have been fine, and it helped SO MUCH.
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