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Has he seen a doctor? Could he have a UTI? That could cause fever, withholding and constipation. Although less common in boys they do still happen. I've been through it all with my daughter for several years and learnt to recognise the symptoms fast with her. She used to withhold urine for up to 15 hours at a time.

Yes, I have seen the drug has been around for 54 years. I have done extensive research on the drug itself, that is readily available. What isn't is experience of people using the drug in the UK, especially in children. I can find few experiences from the US where it is slightly more widely prescribed. We were prescribed 200ml to be administered in a single 5ml dose at night in the hope that next week we can be seen my community dermatology nurse next week. This is on top of a 5ml daily dose of cetirizine in the morning, where 7.5ml chlorphenamine wasn't working. I have to wait until tuesday to do choose and book for this appointment because of the referral having to go through triage. Feeling so desperate, had to pick her up early from pre-school today because she was highly irritable, angry and frustrated. They are hugely concerned about her, as are we. No let up in the severity of the rash covering her face and neck mostly. Her skin around her eyes is so dry despite 3 times daily moisturising it is like sand paper and peeling also. I've just never seen her this bad ever even in the height of summer or when we've been dealing with bad skin infections. Its truly heartbreaking.

It maximum operating system on a ibook I believe is Panther (OS X 10.3.9), this system is old and will show signs of a lot of lag. Since Panthers release in 2003 there has been another 5 operating systems released by Apple, not including one due later this year. With each release comes more problems for people using the older versions, a near 10 year old operating system is going to be very difficult to put up with. The computer itself is probably fine, I have Apples upwards of 11 years old that still run but the operating systems disallow you to do anything. I'm currently running two MacBooks one released in 2004, and one released in 2009, both are capable of and are in fact running the latest operating systems with ease although the 2004 model has had a lot of upgrades to its internal hardware to up the speed. You may be best looking on eBay for a 2004+ model, sometimes you can pick them up for phenomenally cheap prices as people now want macbook pro and air but I find the standard macbook and even the earlier models very resilient and extremely reliable. My 4 year old has the 2004 one, its been dropped, its had stuff spilled on it, and its still going strong bar the screen just getting loose over the last year but it still hasn't fallen off despite her boisterousness and hitting it in frustration. We upgraded the 2004 from Panther after significant lag and 'beach ball' issues and since then its been amazing. No quibbles here. Now its been my 2009 model that 'beach balls' and requires a force quit on occasions but it needs some hardware tweaks.

We did use this last night after much deliberation as the pharmacy could get hold of it quicker than they thought. After 30 minutes she was her usual hyperactive self, trying to contain her to an area incase she just passed out asleep was near impossible. No sedative effect felt, finally sleeping at 10.30pm, still scratching here and there overnight and kept opening her eyes every time she turned over. Allowed to be smother her face in cream though if I got at least one good thing out of it. I wouldn't use this drug continuously just in times of hardship (for her sake, of course) I think. Her dad is happy with whatever choice I choose, thankfully. Tonight I will try it again as she is still very bad in her face, but aim to give it a few hours earlier. This is definitely not eczema we are suffering with right now, it is a severe allergic reaction in her skin. Cant wait to be seen within by community dermatology but cant book until next week.. ARGH! Thank you both x

Thank you WorkingMummy. Its such hard work and torture to see her in such distress. I'm fine with the general antihistamine as a lot of people, children included, take them with no serious or long term side effects or risks so will continue with them as usual. I think its just the sedation side of the new antihistamine and the fact its so rarely prescribed, it also has other uses in the medical field which I'm weary of. Sometimes as a parent you are just faced with such hard decisions about whats right and wrong for your child, for and against medical advise. Its a really difficult situation especially when your already stressed, sleep deprived and feel like you cant protect or soothe your child. I'm just trying to remain positive and reassure her everything is alright.

We never shut our MacBooks down, 8 years strong! It will be fine until he gets home but if needs be the odd force won't harm it awfully.

Just to say I'm not after medical advice here, I have had that already. I'm after anyones experiences with this drug as I'm struggling to find experiences online in the UK. My daughter has always had eczema, involving severe flares, she is 4.5 years old. Some people may be familiar with another of my long threads regarding eczema and toddlers. We are now using frequent steroids of varying potency low-high with short lasting results. We have strict skin regimes in place and are following the advise to the letter of a dermatology specialising GP. Over the last few months things have got completely out of control with all over body breakouts including the face, eyes, neck, ears, whole torso and back. She scratches 24-7 with no let up even at night and is generally irritable. Along with the GP we are considering an environmental allergen such as pollen contributing to the outbreaks in her skin. She is taking daily antihistamine already which is doing nothing to curb the rash or the itch symptoms. Today we have switched to a new antihistamine and been prescribed a sedating antihistamine for the night time. It is this sedating antihistamine (Hydroxyzine) I would like to know anyones experiences with, especially in a child my daughters age or younger? Pharmacy are having to specially order it as its not regularly carried and is prescribed in less than 1 in every 10,000 prescriptions in the UK. Once again I am not looking for medical advice just good old experiences. Thanks xxx

Emski, Crikey! I feel bad, I know others have it worse.. Where do they get these figures? I honestly think they are plucking numbers out of thin air. Is there actually lists?! I'm inclined never to ask for my wait list positions again, I was in two minds about emailing in the first place. Completely fed up now.

I'm so angry, I think they make these things up! We are now 8th, in 7 days we have moved BACKWARDS 6 places. I feel delusional. They could at least make it comical, I could do with a laugh right now.

My sister has 'environmental' allergies including dust mites and all pollens. My daughter suffers from moderate to severe eczema that we believe is exasperated by airborne allergens, as such we do all the following in our houses. Wash all bedding at 60, steam clean surfaces, use a allergy Hoover such as a Henry, wipe down all surfaces especially in the bedroom including bed frame, drawers, windowsills, door frames and skirting. I think lavender or tea tree oil is supposed to be good around the bed (ie. rubbed in to the bed frame or slats) as its a repellent to dust mites. Try to limit soft/cuddly toys, these are the devil! Air mattress as often as possible. Dust mites also hate sunlight so allow as much as possible in to the room, also air the room daily. It's really hard work but you can significantly reduce the allergen level in your home through a strict routine.

Honestly, try not to think about it! I have to do it quite a bit for blood tests and for operations too (which I have to often wait until 1.30-3.30pm to go in for - that is ultra hard). Try to just get up in the morning and get over for the blood tests as quickly as you can after you get up and take a snack for straight after if you need it. Your mind is always more focused on eating because you know you cant, in my experience anyway, but the majority of the fast is spent sleeping. Just imagine a late breakfast, maybe treat yourself to a nice breakfast on the way home/to your next destination?

Thank you number 2, I do really hope so. I wholeheartedly wish everyone on this thread the best of luck with a reception place. Its been such great support to be able to chat to so many people in the same position, I think I would of gone crazy without everyone!!

At last! Anyone else having good news? We have miraculously jumped from 14th on Bessemer to 2nd. All my other hopes are dwindling though, moving up to 5 places backwards with DV, Goodrich and Heber. Really wishing everyone the best of luck, and hope we all get the places we want for our children. This has been a very hard couple of months.

I cant use anything on my daughter as she is just so sensitive with her skin. She has had them twice from one child, although not from pre-school so far. Thank goodness! The best method I find is just rigorous combing and checking through hair, twice a day. Pulling eggs off the hair if possible and squashing. Nits are really resistant to treatments these days, hardly any work. My method normally takes 2 weeks as you have to make sure you catch any new hatchers before they grow and lay more eggs but its definitely the best way to do it. Wet hair preferable and a traditional white plastic double sided comb. My sister had serious problems when she was younger and my mum tried everything on the market, nothing worked, natural or chemical. I took to combing through her hair every night and sitting under a spotlight flicking through like a book, it worked every time.

If you and your baby are happy with the way things are I'd be inclined to stick with it. Everyones answers are going to be different here, mine are completely on the different end of the scale to most peoples. At 7 months my nights consisted of up to 6-7 wake ups for feeding a night. We co-slept from birth to 20 months full-time then until now 4 years 4 months 'part-time'. My daughter fell asleep strictly AT THE BREAST ONLY, it was then a military exercise to roll away from her and out of the bed before sneaking across the creaky floorboards without being heard. Back in within 1 hour for another feed. This went on until she stopped feeding at 24 months, although night feeds tailed off to just 2 a night at 20 months. My partner helped with a bit of playing here and there while I cooked or had a bath but I did all the bathing, wake ups, pacing, nappies, basically everything else. This was the root of many arguments in our house for months on end as I was understandably completely exhausted with a child that just never settled or stopped feeding. I'd still do it again in a heartbeat though.

What time is it on please GipsyMama? My partner is at work but we are both interested in going along to see how we feel about it, if push comes to shove..

For what its worth all my siblings and I co-slept, and we all grew out of it at our own pace, each one of us at a different age. Have you tried putting something of yours, like a tshirt/under vest you've been wearing all day in her bed with her, she could be attached to the smell of you? Might be worth a try for a night or two. See what happens? Could be a connection to her wanting to be near you that you aren't seeing?

I've not found a way I'm happy with and my daughter is 4 1/2 now. I'm a very attached parent though and whilst I'm to the point now that its very uncomfortable for us all to be in my kingsize I hate for her to think she isn't welcome in the middle of the night. She doesn't start the night in our bed but comes in without fail every night between 1-4am. She's been in our bed again for 3 weeks now after having a nightmare but to be fair her room does need a major overhaul and she has promised to go in her room when she has a new bed (she is still in her junior cot bed with the rails off) and has so many toys there is literally a rat run to her bed and thats the only visible floor space. She first went in her own room from 20 months but would come back into our room quickly as I was still breastfeeding during the night. At 24 months when I stopped breastfeeding she stayed in her own room by choice and would still be there at 7-8am, this happened for 6 months. At 30 months she started coming into our bed again.. I'm yet to tackle this issue still 2 years on. We always allowed our daughter to make her own choices, from toilet training, wearing knickers at night to being in her own bed. With gentle encouragement and talks of being a big girl she has done brilliantly but its just the sleeping in her own bed we fall back on. She has always been extremely attached to me and I think thats what she finds genuinely hard, she doesn't have a comforter by way of a teddy or a rag but instead has comforted from birth by rubbing a mole on my chest. I think this is another issue that gets in the way with our daughter, do you notice anything similar?

Its difficult, but I know many of people who have done it even where they couldn't afford it. A lot of my friends have been through uni but undoubtably will be paying off debt for a long time, this situation is only worse now with the higher tuition fees. Its ridiculous. In my experience with friends aged from 19-23 in uni now I think its difficult to get by without some support from your parents. My younger sister is currently travelling from Dorset to Oxford for uni 1 day a week whilst maintaining a job in Dorset. My dad is helping pay the fee (?1,700+ a quarter), she is paying the rest herself with wages (including petrol, car insurance). She has done this for the last year now its putting such a stress on her travelling back and forth for uni she is moving to oxford to live with my dad, another extra expense to my dad who is having to move house to accommodate her, something he wasn't planning. My older sister was at uni in Oxford for 3 years, and lived in halls for 1 year and rented a house with friends for the other 2. She left uni 7 years ago and got through it with a student loan, which to my knowledge is still being paid off despite having a mortgage and working constantly since leaving. I don't think she got any help from my mum, but she may well of had help from her dad. I've looked in to starting uni within London as I have a child but the cost for me outweighs the benefit especially as I need additional work to even enrol in the courses I want to take. My father would help me if I chose to do it, and has said he would pay my fees but were looking at a phenomenal amount of money to get into a highly competitive field with a starter job earning ?16,000pa - the same I could earn without a degree if I picked wisely. I'd definitely talk to a student loans advisor, they can help lay everything out on the table for you to see.

Sofas are a nightmare! I'm happy now though, finally. I knew the secret all along but was just awaiting the opportunity. We have a Habitat Escalus (look it up on google images). Habitat stopped selling it a good while ago, maybe over 6 years ago now. I recently bought mine on eBay from someone in Brockley, honestly I don't think they had ever even sat on it, I felt like a thief getting it so cheap. They are now iconic sofas and sell for upwards of ?250 second hand (original RRP was ?900) but they are well worth the money. My mum has had hers for 12 years, bought ex display from a habitat store its been through 3 children/teenagers at home, 2 dogs, cats, various wine spills, parties, scuffs, moving it around and still looks great. My dad has one at his house also 12 years old and still holding its shape despite being moved a lot and being in a house with animals and young children. Mine is surviving my 4 year old, spilling milk and yogurt on it which my previous one didn't she climbs over it, jumps on it, dives on it. Nothing to report. Mine must be at least 6 or more years old, I honestly cant remember the year they became discontinued. Everyone loves it, and its such a lovely design modern but retro at the same time. Fits in with my modern with a touch of 60s quirk living room nicely. Want another one but I don't think we can fit two in here. Might opt for a chair aswell.

I feel for you number 2. It's really hard to be optimistic in this whole situation. We've still had no movement at all, up or down. I don't know whats more frustrating, I think its all on par to be honest. I'm trying not to think about it all at the minute, been constantly ill through all of this unfortunately and now battling bad wisdom infection myself whilst helping my daughter get through a severe skin infection. Hellish few months for us.

I sort of do this, but not at the same time. I'm a free spirit. From the last week of April I've been tracking my calories on myfitnesspal, I started off being allowed 1300 a day. I stuck to it for 5/6 out of the 7 day week then had 1/2 'treat' days but never allowed the calorie limit to exceed the recommended calorie intake for a woman (2000). Since starting this, whilst pretty much only doing the school run in the morning as exercise and the occasional 2-3 30 minute sessions a week on the wiifit doing yoga, jogging and cardio workouts I've lost 10lb as of 2 weeks ago. Now they've dropped my calorie intake to 1260 a day. 20lb to go till my goal. I've always struggled to stick to things before and have never actively tried to loose weight (I'm doing it more for health reasons) but using this app and tracking what I'm confusing to the spoonful made me realise how many calories are in things. I definitely think twice or 3 times about some things now! Eek! I'd highly recommend if no one has used it before.

I'm dreading this stage. Hoping the next 7/8 years go slowly! I grew up in a rural Oxfordshire market town before moving to a seaside town at 14. I lived on the other side of town to all my friends. From starting secondary I was allowed to walk over to theirs with them after school or walk home from school then on to theirs afterwards but had a curfew of 7pm. If I said I was INSIDE my friends house this was extended somewhat, until maybe 10pm on weekends/9pm on school nights (I never was in their house, we were all out, on their street, in town, the park etc) My parents were never ones for grounding me or using discipline. I was an unruly teen, they tried to impose 7pm curfew all the way up to the age of 16! By 13 I was regularly saying I was staying at friends houses overnight and staying out all night, by 15 I was coming home from clubs at 4,5,6am. I was plenty capable of looking after myself (I don't think they thought I was!) and never found myself in any trouble at all, even if I had I was never alone always with at least 2 or 3 other people and always carried a contract mobile from 12 years old. I know from experience with myself and a lot of my friends the more you don't let them do something the more they want to do it, whether they do it behind your back or not. It's really hard to let them go through this but you know deep down what they are ready for or not. I think its really difficult, of course you always want your kids to be safe, before this they've been with you all the way but there comes a time when they need to find their freedom.

I haven't even checked my Lewisham lists since they released them, they were so far fetched I gave up from the off. I might check, just on the off chance, then again it could make me even more irate.

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